El joven vendedor y el estilo de vida fluido
by Fernando San Basilio
Description
Israel works in a corner of a shop built into another shop located on the ground floor of the La Vaguada shopping centre. He used to be a dreamer and had a head full of birds and romanticism, but now, after reading a self-help book that has promised him to be a better person, he has adopted a fluid lifestyle. Caught up in a destiny that leads him to nihilism, Israel, like all good anti-heroes, will have to face its own destruction. In a frenetic, feverish, and frenzied journey, which seems to have been taken from the chapter of Joyce's Ulysses' descent into hell, and which also takes place in a single, maddening day, the shopping centre (mirror of the whole of reality) becomes our modern playground, where everything is achieved and everything happens, and a perfect metaphor for the world.
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Author Biography
Fernando San Basilio (Madrid, 1970) studied Hispanic Philology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Journalism at the Escuela de Periodismo de El País. In 2006 he published "Curso de Librería" (Bookstore Course) at Caballo de Troya publishing house ("a witty and funny book, with humour and nonsense acting as masters of ceremony", Babelia), and in 2010 his second novel appeared, entitled "Mi gran novela sobre La Vaguada" (Caballo de Troya) ("San Basilio is a master of the deliberately minor phrase, in which the joke coexists with the bitterness without making it more digestible", Carlos Pardo, Público). In 2012 he published in Impedimenta a sort of closure to that trilogy: “El joven vendedor y el estilo de vida fluido". In addition to Madrid, he has lived in Palma de Mallorca and Seville. He has worked as a journalist, corrected literary texts, taught Spanish for foreigners and worked as a bookseller.
Impedimenta S. L.
Impedimenta is a publishing house founded in 2007. It has been awarded with the National Prize to Best Publishing Labour in 2008. Nowadays publishes between 24 and 34 titles per year (fiction, graphic novels, comics and children’s illustrated books).
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- Publisher Impedimenta
- Publication Date May 2012
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788415578048
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 16.95 EUR
- Pages165
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleSpanish
- Original Language AuthorsSpa
- Edition1st
- Copyright Year2012
- Dimensions13x20 cm
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