La instruccion y otros cuentos/ Instructions and Other Tales

by Ignacio Solares

There are people who believe in resurrection and also believe that our actions link to the world’s salvation. For some, that faith would be enough to reach sanctity. For others however, it is only a comfort to forget that life is a whirlwind. The characters of these twenty-three stories come from both sides. Sometime during our life we have been gripped by an indescribable fear when faced with situations others may find completely normal. Just like in these short stories, where even on the briefest one, there’s no room for the impossible. Solares’ prose is as precise as a heart beat, and as intense as the sun light.

140 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2007

About the author

Ignacio Solares was a prominent Mexican novelist, editor and playwright, whose novel La invasión (The Invasion, 2004) was a bestseller in Mexico and Spain. Until 2005 he served as the Coordinator of Cultural Activities for Literature and Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); he was a faculty member there and directed the cultural magazine Revista de la Universidad de México. He formerly served as director of the Department of Theater and Dance and the Division of Literature at UNAM. He edited the cultural supplement to the weekly magazine Siempre.

Reviews

[Antonio Rubio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Irregular, aburrido incluso.

Qué prosa tan más "fabricada" la de Solares.

Hay, sin embargo, tres cuentos destacables por tenebrosos: "El paramédico", "El libro" y "El mensajero".

"La locura es como un sueño que se fija".

5/10

[Lucas · Rating 3 out of 5]

human at its most, whatever that may mean