Providence es una miríada de novelas, todas ellas sorprendentes y originales: relato de terrores y terrorismos post-11S, novela de campus pornográfica, reverso tenebroso del american way of life, reescritura no cinéfila de la Historia del Cine; retrato, en fin, de una conspiración global para imponer el mundo virtual al mundo real. Suprotagonista, Álex Franco, es un cineasta español con una visión perversa de Hollywood. En el Festival de Cannes conoce a una misteriosa mujer, Delphine, que le propone realizar una nueva película. Providence es también la ciudad donde se instala el conflictivo y escandaloso Franco, sin hacerse una idea de lo que le espera allí: sectas mafiosas, conspiraciones apocalípticas y sociedades secretas que pugnan por el control de su metamórfica realidad. Providence es un hipnótico viaje al fin de la noche americana: esa América real que encubre el horror gótico tras una fachada colorista de glamour y consumo. «Ciencia ficción, sátira social, novela pronográfica. Juan Francisco Ferré ha lanzado una gran bomba post-moderna sobre el planeta libro. Revelación extranjera de la "rentrée". Un nombre a retener» (Les Inrokuptibles).
Author
Juan Francisco Ferré is a writer, literary critic and lecturer / researcher at Brown University, U.S.A. He has a PhD in Hispanic Studies. A re-thinker of fiction, he writes with full conciousness of our contemporary media environment and with full liberty to use that in fiction, without constraints of ‘literary’ expectations or conventional morality. His fiction is in a post-modern tradition that draws on North American writers such as Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace as much as on Spain’s Juan Goytisolo, and he can be seen to be part of a younger generation of literary hell-raisers and re-mixers in Spain that includes Agustín Fernández Mallo, Eloy Fernández Porta, Javier Calvo and Robert Juan-Cantavella. After some time living in the United States, he returned to Spain. There, he started writing novels. In 2002 was published "La vuelta al mundo" and "La fiesta del asno" in 2005, but it not was until the publishing of "Providence", appeared in 2009, that his novelist career takes off. In 2012 Anagrama published "Karnaval", an ambitious work where he fictionalizes the events around Strauss-Khan. In 2015 he published "El rey del juego" more focused in the spanish reality.
