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PERIPHERAL

Among the many top-level independent publishers that have appeared in Spain, Peripheral is one of my favorites. The reason is simple: never let me down. I read three books by American authors in his catalog: The Rolling Stones Peru, Peruvians and Cucho Peñaloza Sergio Galarza; Help him, the Argentine Fogwill; United Jobs, Mexican Yuri Herrera . Galarza, and Peñaloza have written a nonfiction chronicle about a meeting that fails to occur with Rolling (is also a testament to delirious extremes can get a fan) has reimagined Fogwill seamlessly (and ruthless) to Borges Beatriz Viterbo from the hallucination of drugs (the other short novel full volume, About art of the novel, is even best), and Herrera has written the first novel that everyone wants to write an adventure between narcos and corridos, told in a prose that always manages to find images memorable turns of phrase worthy of applause.

All these books are short. They note, there, the hallmark of his editor, writer Julian Rodriguez Extremadura, someone who, by style and temperament, is very close to the evocative minimalism the Chilean Alejandro Zambra.

In his statement, Peripheral, founded in April 2006, says he will address, among other things, "the boldest proposals and suggestions from the last international fiction, with special attention to the best literature Latin America today. " Galarza, and Herrera Fowgill show that peripheral is doing very well designed. A future addition to the catalog: Maximiliano Barrientos Bolivia (Santa Cruz, 1979), one of those remarkable writers of the new generation which, fortunately for readers beyond the borders of Bolivia, has been discovered by Peripheral.

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A NATION OF hikikomori

The first time I heard the term hikikomori was in Wisconsin, at a conference of Colombian writer Mario Mendoza. Referred to a million young Japanese who had decided to reject his society and to live enclosed in their rooms, often even covering the windows with black curtains. A million? I thought it was an exaggeration. Then I read on the blog of Alberto Fuguet mention of Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation (Vintage, 2006), a book by journalist Michael Zielenziger trying to explain the phenomenon of hikikomori . Intrigued, I read the book. Zielenziger The fascinating work has helped me better understand this complex country lllamado Japan, speculation about one of the paradoxes of contemporary society (a greater communication, greater isolation), and ask about the possibility that other developed societies lost in the path of progress and prosperity, lack of social cohesion strategies.

For Zielenziger, the hikikomori pathology is mysterious, because it is not a disorder mental or have equivalents in other cultures. It is rather a social disorder: the hikikomori are generally very intelligent men who have decided to abandon self in Japanese society, not suffer depression or their desire to turn people has something to do with agoraphobia, preferring to stay at home and devote himself to read, play games, surf the net, drinking vodka and Sochua (Japanese vodka). Neither work nor go to school or college.

Zielenziger understands the hikikomori as a product of conformity, insularity and homogeneity of Japan. In a country where there has been no political revolutions, sexual and gender of the West, where racial mixing is almost forbidden due to draconian immigration laws, which has relied heavily on the American model in the postwar years, being different is paid with rejection. Japanese teenagers who show patterns of behavior and a different sensitivity in school are, in general, verbally and physically abused by their partners (with the addition that, when that happens, parents end up justifying the abuse of those being subject their children). Faced with such abuses, many of these young people become afraid to go to school, and little by little, they're leaving. They stay in their homes, and used their parents as the only contact with the world. In the most extreme cases, stop talking with their parents and communicate with them through written messages on paper (parents, ashamed at the situation, do not go to anyone for help, and finance their children's parasitic life .)

"hikikomori The boys are the intangible value," says the mother of one of them. And there is much room for intangibles in a materialistic society such as Japan, where there is not no Western concept of self-esteem. When the economy began to fail after the prosperous decade of the eighties, social dysfunction and rigidity of the Japanese system were unable to adapt to the challenges of globalization. In the most controversial chapter of the book, Zielenziger, which also discusses other issues to understand China's social dislocation, for example, the large number of professional women who do not want to marry - uses the concept of hikikomori as a metaphor to understand the Japan of today to the "increased uncertainty and risk in the world", Japan, instead of doing like, say, South Korea - to adapt to changes and seek independent development - Alternatively, as hikikomori , "Take refuge in the protective womb of his room" (265).

Zielenziger exaggerating: not all different beings in Japan become hikikomori , some become video game designers, illustrators sleeves, anime writers. Artistic creativity that is very influential in the world. In addition, although no longer dominates as in the eighties, Japan remains an economic and cultural superpower. However, it has a million hikikomori not say anything good of the Japanese system. Perhaps the lesson that other countries can draw from the Japanese case is that the development of a country should not be solely economic or cultural, must be, well, a modernization of the prejudices and traditions, mental flexibility that will address the new challenges of the present without any social group feels excluded system.

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STORY WITH DICTATOR AND CARD S
(a short story)

At that time the dictator Joaquin Iturbide owned a factory and had the monopoly cards the sale of cards in the country and one day he came to declare the June 26 Friendship Day cards created for that day had an unexpected success in the population and achieved spectacular gains for the company, this led to the dictator to declare August 14 the day of the Envy and the success will be repeated. And by its own inertia dynamics continued success and within five years every day of the year were cornered and had Grudge day and day of the Infidel and Bride's Grandparents Day and Day of the wives who love but in reality day is hate and Worshipper of Onan and day of which she lay down with their servants and day of the Marquis de Sade Reader and day dreaming of the centaurs. To rise to the new occurrences had to divide the day into several parts: on January 3 in the evening was declared when those who like making love in the dark of a cinema and 16 October in the morning upon which Do not kill even a fly, and Dec. 21 at noon when the Chachachá nostalgic. And so on. The dictator and could more money annually by selling cards with openly stealing from the coffers of the country, but refused to relinquish power. I wanted to die with him, and very old, venerable patriarch.

When death came to him was indeed very old. In his honor, the Board declared the country Notables the four p.m. with twenty-seven minutes and fifteen seconds on April 2 as the fleeting moment of perpetual dictator.

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UNIVERSE TIM BURTON

In one of the posters to promote Sweeney Todd can find some key features of the universe from its director, the great Tim Burton:

The Gothic: Johnny Depp carries a knife in his hands and a cadaverous makeup. It's the same color of Helena Bonham Carter, who is on your side. In the corpus -never better used this word - the film is Burton The Corpse Bride ; here is The bodies of the couple .

macabre: a large blood stain covers some of the letters of the title. The caption says that we are facing "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street." The dominance of black in the poster, the contrast with the red chair and razor blade shining in the dark, do the rest. Burton has been here before, especially in The Nightmare Before Christmas and Sleepy Hollow .

I freak: Johnny Depp in the role of Sweeney Todd, wears a look of being misunderstood by the world. In fact, it is. His desire for revenge will take to become a serial murderer, a greater brand freak. Burton has specialized in monstrous characters, men on the margins of society for bizarre reasons. Monsters Burton freak always have something romantic: the Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Willy Wonka and Batman are, at bottom, idealistic, capable of beating the pulse of all who ask to be like the rest.

Johnny Depp: Burton fetish actor has appeared in six of his films ( The Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Ed Wood, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow, The Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd ). Since we are: Helena Bonham Carter, Burton's partner, has appeared in five and Danny Elfman's music has brought them all from 's Big Adventure Pee-Wee , with the exception of Ed Wood .

The sum is the product unmistakable Burton: a fairy tale for adults. A nightmare in contrasting colors. A strange romantic tale of terror. A high quality film with nods to the class B movies and horror genre. There are only, inevitably, a couple of features, such as his love for cartoons and the art of stop-motion . His next film will Alice in Wonderland , which would suggest that Burton is getting predictable ("Depp in the role of Alice?). However, if one recalls that all remakes ( Planet of the Apes s, Charlie ) ended up being very personal works, chances are, rather, that one day there is talk of Lewis Carroll as a precursor to Tim Burton.

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FOR THE WEEKEND

Matt Reeves: Cloverfield

was not in my plans to see Cloverfield , but my son Gabriel learned what it was and, as a fan of Godzilla, I said wanted to see. I accepted, after all, "a monster like Godzilla in New York" did not sound so bad. The film surprised me positively: it is as The Blair Witch Project , but well done. Or does the Blair Witch had come early, and now trained by YouTube, it is easier to understand format Cloverfield: seventy minutes filmed by home camera, moving without stopping, you can not find the right angle for capture the monster, who rarely sees. There is a love story, but that is unimportant: the constant explosions and the movement of the camera make you not feel you're watching a movie but experiencing a virtual simulation in an amusement park. In the end, my son and I left with dizziness and headaches. A critic of La Vanguardia Cloverfield defined as "the first domestic disaster movie." Yes. Gabriel wanted to leave ten minutes before it ended: I was really scared. And neither really liked that this time, the monster wins.

COMPACT

Elvis Perkins: Ash Wednesday

The world may not need a singer again of good feelings and sadness everywhere. But how not to listen to Elvis Perkins? This is nothing less than the son of Anthony Perkins - Psycho-actor, died of AIDS in the early eighties, and Berry Berenson, photographer who died tragically (he was one of the passengers of the planes that hit the September 11 the Twin Towers.) With those parents, Perkins has many stories to tell: a past ideal for a novelist or a serial murderer. Perkins choose a middle road, and opens with Ash Wednesday , a compact that sounds as if the thirties had the world every year. No anger, only the look of someone who has seen and experienced much. The irresistible song is "While You Were Sleeping," "Emile's Vietnam In The Sky" and "Sleep Sandwich" are also memorable.

NOVEL

Nikolai Leskov: steel Flea (Impediment a)

The sentence is cruel, and had to belong to a character Nabokov: "Speaking of second-rate authors, what do you think of Leskov?" Walter Benjamin tried to rescue him, but we must accept that Nabokov was right for the great Russian literature Leskov is second row. After reading Flea steel, can be qualified by saying: what second row, first! This story, published in 1881, dwells on the best Russian oral tradition, but points to the twentieth century, even the twenty-first wounded nationalist pride before an English invention, a mechanical steel flea, an automaton - the Russians strive to find the craftsman capable of inventing a flea same but better. The end is not up to the above, but the waste of imagination that means competition between mechanical flea is enough to ensure that Leskov not be forgotten.

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VOLPI IN AND

BLACKBERR

My very good friend Ana Pellicer told me he had just read an unpublished nouvelle Jorge Volpi in his Blackberry. Yes, a surprise to readers accustomed to meganovelas Volpi: his new job, devastated the garden, does not even need the Kindle or Sony Reader to be read, is between sixty and eighty pages, which means you can read on mobile phones and laptops.

I read it on my MacBook Pro torn In The garden themes appear expensive Volpi, related concern global policy in this case, a woman searching for her brothers during the war in Iraq - but there is also news. It is an intimate Volpi, in which narrator difficult to recognize certain aspects of his biography. There is a great female character (the bipolar Ana). The prose is also surprising: devoid of rhetoric, his sharp brevity makes the book a garden devastated nothing to stress maximum.

In Volpi blog have appeared chapters of the novel. In the first posts , Volpi explained the reason for his project: "Writing. Write back. No other novel-any novel but a blog, a combination of memory, fiction, aphorisms. An adventure that is also a negative. A writing exercise, a way of learning to write again a year after the trilogy ended In Search of Klingsor, The end of madness and will not Earth. " It is not clear if the reader comments will influence the final version. What is certain is that through the blog and the new electronic readers, the writer is more likely to interact with your readers, know your opinions, ignore them (or not). Thus, in its way, The garden is also devastated cyberliterature.

This nouvelle be published in September by Alfaguara. But before another book will Volpi, one of tests, which will publish the pages of foam.