Snooker at the Swiss club
by Guillermo Fadanelli
Snooker at the Swiss club (El billar de los suizos: Cal y Arena, México city, 2017) is a book that explores traveling by memory. As Fadanelli stated at some obscure moment: “the only time you actually get to live something, is when you have the time to remember it”. Destinies around the globe (from Smirna to Lyon, Madrid to Berlin, Venice to Leukerbad and the not less exotic Mexico City) give the pretext to think about things lived and seen. Nevertheless, it is important to warn the reader that this is not going to be a travel journal, but the sediment of the strange event of remaining alive after several decades of exploring the menial details of the world. Ghosts of other writers, cities and the people tied to them are the core of this book. Melancholy and irony are always invited, old friends that fortunately always tag along in his texts. guillermofadanelli.com