In some unexpected cases for me, the interest in one of the books that I review in this space multiplies and the visits to its page multiply exponentially. It was the case of Laura Fernández and that surprising book "Mrs. Potter is not exactly Santa Claus." I don't know the final sales figures, but I'm sure it was a success based on the curiosity of Internet search readers who ended up entering my review. It is true that it was also noted in the real world among reading circles that this novel had been a cause for celebration due to its freshness, daring and virtuosity.
The question in these cases is to survive oneself, to take advantage of success not to die from it, but to continue with that daring as a flag, with that imprint that if it was capable of great work, it can continue to open new creative paths. And that's what Laura Fernández is doing, and for this she seems to continue to also have muses who applaud her effort and dedication.
Downloads of imagination that can be launched into fictions between surrealism and science fiction very much made in Laura. As well as other types of proposals in which the fantasy is subjected to new patterns to form parody spaces of our world, from the most critical acidity that always comes from the ability to glimpse what is happening with new focuses. A kind of Orwellian inspiration you could say.
In one way or another, in any of its aspects, it is always about an author who subjects her characters to the vertigo of the trapeze artist or the astronaut. The anomaly and the extraordinary conspire to act on Tim Burton-style stages. The surprise to end up discovering ourselves fascinated by all kinds of excesses in depth; and hyperboles wisely handled in form. And reading a lot Thick That's what it has...
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Mrs. Potter is not exactly Santa Claus
Since the world is the world, the human being has claimed the immortality of the masterpiece that compares him with the Maker of great things. And at the same time, the simple floating note of perfection gives us a sense of fulfillment that borders both complacency and failure. Louise wrote a children's masterpiece that you laugh at the little prince of Saint Exupery. The question is whether this eternity is bearable in the same way that the lightness of being is bearable, what would I say? kundera.
The fame of the unpleasant Kimberly Clark Weymouth, a small town eternally plagued by freezing blizzards and lots of snow, and where Louise Feldman set the children's classic Mrs. Potter is not exactly Santa Claus, allowed Randal Peltzer to open a successful souvenir shop. Every day, the city welcomes readers of the eccentric writer and reluctantly lives off her. But what if, fed up with a destination he hasn't chosen, Billy, Randal's son, decides to close the store to move to another city? Could Kimberly Clark Weymouth allow herself to stop being where she has always been and become something else?
Beneath the exuberant prose and boundless imagination of Laura Fernández, hides a solid story about motherhood, creation and renunciation, art as a refuge and the loneliness of the misunderstood, in this cross between a Roahl Dahl novel for adults and a wild and digressive TC Boyle who would have read Joy Williams too much. Mrs. Potter is not exactly Santa Claus tries to blow up the single idea of ​​the existence of the story, or the unique story of what we are, because if we are something, it is an infinity of possibilities.
Welcome to Welcome
It could not be otherwise. If the aliens finally came to this planet, they would land with a crash in this Spain eager to welcome dictators of all stripes with gigantic banners. And here they would soon blend in among the strange characters that inhabit such a peninsula. Some more for the summer in Benidorm or Salou, some more for the bus on duty. That's if they want to integrate, because if they come to conquest, they can give us a bad time...
Welcome to Welcome, a world of the future, full of shopping centers, residential neighborhoods and big stars, where life happens like on a television set. But reality - a shocking reality, certainly - is about to burst into that brave new world. An unidentified flying object has just hit one of the city's shopping centers and it is estimated that there are thousands of deaths.
The main local media start up and compete to cover the news. Is this an advertising campaign? Are they filming a new sitcom? Is the mayor facing a revolt? Is this the return of the legendary late writer Rondy Rondy? Is it true that Pedro Juan, the fashionable actor, has died? And if so, who will end the chain of suicides of his devastated fans? Is this really a UFO piloted by a furry alien?
Either way, you're about to find out. Along the way, you will meet the intrepid Lu Ken, Claudio Arden, the dwarf mayor, Sarah Du, the only survivor, the great diva Anita Velasco and the Welcomitzer hopeful Clark Roth, among many other celebrities. You arrive at a good time, because after all this, Welcome will never be the same again.
Ladies, gentlemen and planets
The stories gathered here are what we could call "selected stories", and if they have something in common it is that they are not from this planet. Literally. Well, they are set in hilariously absurd corners of the galaxy. With a humor and an imagination that does not stop at anything or anyone, Laura Fernández reinvents our world from other infinite worlds populated by famous mutant detectives, ghost journalists, office dinosaurs, self-driving cars that talk more than necessary, lemon trees that are not exactly the same. that look like and inhabitants of other planets that could perfectly inhabit this one.
These miniature novels give an account of the exuberant universe that Laura Fernández has been creating and expanding over fifteen years. In addition to the stories that have been previously published—in all types of small publications and anthologies—Ladies, Gentlemen and Planets includes a prologue and other additional texts by the author herself, as well as an unpublished novel and a story. Awarded with the El Ojo CrÃtico, Las LibrerÃas Recomiendan, Finestres and Kelvin 505 narrative awards for Mrs. Potter is not exactly Santa Claus, she is one of the most daring, brilliant, unique and talented authors of our literary panorama.
