En la urbanización El Atabal, fundada por holandeses, la narradora elude la mediocridad circundante a través de su rebelde hedonismo y su amistad con la omnipresente Regina. Escribe una novela sobre la memoria, sobre la escritura como arma contra el mundo, atravesada de transiciones e iniciaciones: de transiciones, porque lo que se cuenta sucede en España entre 1976 y 1983, y de iniciaciones, porque lo que se cuenta es el descubrimiento del mundo adulto a través del sexo y el deseo. En pleno amanecer sexual, la narradora conoce a un pintor llamado Carlos y a un escritor llamado Ángel. Acaso uno de ellos sea Dios y el otro el Diablo, y acaso ella sea una Eva gnóstica y andrógina a la que Carlos pinta desnuda en su particular Paraíso. El cuadro forma parte de una serie de lienzos en los que aparecen retratados, también desnudos, los capitostes de la urbanización, una transgresión que derivará en chantaje y en un escabroso asesinato.
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.
