Snooker at the Swiss club
by Guillermo Fadanelli
Description
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.
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Editorial MOHO has the rights only in Mexico
Reviews
"Guillermo Fadanelli is a Mexican writer, powerful and marginal at the same time, a great combination. One of the greatest of his country":
Enrique Vila—Matas
"Let’s walk with Fadanelli through Florencia, Leukerbad, Lyon, París, Madrid, Berlín, Buenos Aires, Oaxaca, Mexicali and Mexico City. It is a book of few words, but sometimes with a strong and revealing effect. We eat, and, of course, we drink with the author; we swim, hidden among the other bathers, but most of all, we wander. El billar de los suizos is the wanderers handboo":
Adrián Román
Author Biography
Guillermo Fadanelli was born in Mexico City at El Sagrado Corazón Hospital located in Calzada de Tlalpan, D. F. A hospital that no longer exists: it is a hotel now. At nine years old he fronts his first fight with fists and the child who was nicknamed El Caperuza defeats him. At the age of eleven, his father enrolls him at a military school, where he becomes more cynical rather than corrected. At thirteen he wins his first fight after a long history of losses. At the age of eighteen he gets his first car: Rambler 67. His first trip outside the country is to San Francisco at the age of twenty-one. There, he meets his uncle Johnny, a former Vietnam fighter who initiates him into the art of drinking tons of beer. In the early eighties he starts studying Engineering and never gets the title because he avoids entering classes. At this time, is when literature starts interesting him. At Engineering School he meets Yolanda Martinez, and together with a group of friends he founds MOHO Magazine. His first book is entitled The Day I See Her, I'll Kill Her (El día que la vea la voy a matar), published by Editorial Grijalbo. In the early nineties he sells Christmas trees at the 87th and Second Avenue corner in New York, he earns 1500 dollars. Some years later, he works as a salesman in a bakery in Madrid; in exchange for his work he receives a roof and food, no payment. He lives in Berlin for a year, and he is surprised because beer is served warm there. He is also interested in the Hohenzollern’s biography. In Bogotá and Havana he makes good friends. In Lima he excites the press (a newspaper announces his disappearance and possible abduction), and in Graz he goes to have a drink with the director of the Criminology Museum. He has published several novels and holds on to lead Editorial Moho. Nowadays he has lost most of his friends because of the passing time. Anyway, he seems to be very happy.
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Copyright @Guillermo Fadanelli, 2017.
Editorial MOHO.
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EDITORIAL MOHO: this Mexican publishing house started in the 1995. Since then, it has focused on expressions in which parody, irony, realism and urban miscellaneous prevail.
View all titlesBibliographic Information
- Publisher Editorial Moho and Cal y arena
- Publication Date October 2017
- ISBN/Identifier 9786079357894
- Publication Country or regionMexico
- FormatBook
- Primary Price 25 USD
- Pages134
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleEl Billar de los suizos
- Original Language AuthorsSpanish
- EditionFirst
- Copyright Year2017
- Page sizeheight (21x24 ) cm
- IllustrationCMYK
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