El Corredor O Las Almas Que Lleva El Diablo / The Racer or the Bats Out of Hell
El Corredor O Las Almas Que Lleva El Diablo / The Racer or the Bats Out of Hell
"Not so much the characters, but the cars, the engines, and the shattering sounds from terrible crashes are the protagonists of this novel about rhythm and speed. In The Racer, Alejandro V?zquez Ortiz encapsulates, with great accuracy, his literary obsessions, the ones that undoubtedly link him to the riskiest, most singular Mexican narrative of today." --Emiliano Monge "The Racer is a howl of metal and literature with the primordial virtue of taking the reader to a paroxysm, to that exaltation proper of dervishes and drivers whose bolides foresee, in a fraction of a second, the wall they will slam into, the fire where enraged gears and angles will tear them apart. Alejandro V?zquez Ortiz has managed to write a chromed narrative mechanism with several layers of paint, where violence and desperation live, where vertigo and emptiness are they only certainties. Burned oil, endless highways that glow in the desert as red-hot pistons, a gravel and concrete embankment inhabited by automobiles, blood, and pain. This novel is not foreign to fetichism, nor to us, humans on the edge of everything. And this is what makes it memorable." --Ram?n L?pez Castro
Author: Alejandro Vázquez Ortiz
Publisher: Literatura Random House
Published: 09/26/2023
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9788439742258
Language: Spanish
About the Author
Alejandro Vázquez Ortiz (Monterrey, 1984) es narrador y editor, fundador y miembro del consejo en la editorial An alfa beta. Publicó la novela El emisario o La lección de los animales y los libros de cuentos Artefactos y La virtud de la impotencia (Premio Nacional de Cuento Joven Comala 2015). Ganó el xxxi Concurso Nacional de Cuento Fantástico y de Ciencia Ficción en 2015, por el cuento «El mono que escribió el Quijote» (publicado en 2018 por Librosampleados), y en 2017 el Premio Nuevo León de Literatura con el libro de cuentos Yonque. Recientemente obtuvo la beca del PECDA Nuevo León. En 2018 fue seleccionado por la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara para participar en el programa «¡Al ruedo! Ocho talentos mexicanos», que pretende destacar la narrativa contemporánea a nivel nacional.