Presentation of the e book “The silk kimono”

Presentation of the e book “The silk kimono”

• GAM Bookshop, Alameda 227, Metro UC.
• Saturday November 16 – 5:00 p.m.

After having printed two books of quick tales, Claudio Suárez embarks on his 3rd literary venture, “El kimono de seda”, a singular that explores the complexity of lifestyles, id and the interior struggles that all of us face as time progresses. . The paintings, which interweaves a deep narrative, gives a mirrored image on ageism, deterioration and the choices that mark an individual’s future.

Claudio Suárez explores the vicissitudes of Miguel, a sixty-year-old guy, who’s at a decisive second in his lifestyles, going through the catch 22 situation between leaving in the back of the whole lot he has constructed or embarking on a brand new trail against private achievement: going south. and commit your self to writing. Confronted with opposition from his spouse, a number of years more youthful than him, who is not going to accompany him in his resolution, Miguel hesitates between the potential of reinventing himself or ultimate trapped in a lifestyles that now not satisfies him. A catch 22 situation that, in keeping with the creator, is commonplace to many of us who revel in the midlife disaster.

Along with the primary plot, the unconventional accommodates a number of narrative layers. One in all them is the Jap tale that Miguel is writing and that leads him to mirror on his personal lifestyles and the variations within the worth that outdated age is given within the West and the East. His tale criticizes age discrimination (ageism), so commonplace in our civilization, and contrasts it with what occurs in Jap society, the place the aged are revered and their revel in is valued.

Added to those two overlapping tales is the counterpoint constructed with WhatsApp communications between his spouse and her pals, which give a rawer and extra lifelike imaginative and prescient of what’s taking place in Miguel’s lifestyles.

The tale of The Silk Kimono is born from a picture that the creator assists in keeping in his “cause record”, a supply of inspiration that Cortázar and Murakami additionally use of their writings. The preliminary thought of ​​the unconventional arose from a non-public episode and used to be evolved from the mirrored image on ageism and growing old, an issue that turns into particularly related when the protagonist, Miguel, faces the discrimination he suffers because of his age, each to your paintings lifestyles in addition to to your courting.

“Miguel has my pains, my losses, my errors, but additionally my impulse to need to do one thing extra, to pursue new goals in spite of age and difficulties,” says Claudio Suárez Cruzat, a lung most cancers surgeon who, upon turning Sixty years outdated, he made up our minds to depart drugs and embark on a trail against his different nice hobby: literature.

In his first two books, Claudio Suárez printed quick tales, a style that, as he himself issues out, has a concentrated construction and seeks a right away have an effect on at the reader. Alternatively, the wish to discover the probabilities of the unconventional led him to take a jump against a extra intensive and complicated narrative with The Silk Kimono.

“After publishing two books of quick tales, I was eager about writing a singular,” explains the creator. “Each genres vary in lots of sides. Cortázar mentioned that the unconventional wins by way of issues and the tale by way of knockout. The tale has a cohesion of impact that seeks to seize the reader temporarily, whilst the unconventional calls for a gentle, extra advanced building, with higher construction of characters and a plot that unfolds bit by bit.

Right through this tale, Claudio Suárez permits himself to go into into metaliterary conversations with authors equivalent to Dante, Kawabata, Nabokov and Rivera Letelier, which provides a deeper size to the unconventional, which works past Miguel’s private tale to open an area for literary mirrored image, lifestyles, sin and dying.

Miguel’s tale is, in some ways, a mirrored image at the passage of time, the seek for happiness and the braveness to possibility pursuing what actually issues. “Via Miguel, I sought after to query whether or not we face true age discrimination or whether or not what is going on has to do with the inevitable strategy of growing old and deterioration, a phenomenon that is affecting us all, someday,” feedback the creator. .

Via this multi-layered tale, Claudio Suárez invitations the reader to mirror on his personal courting with time, reminiscence, and the seek for that means in an international that advances unstoppably.

“The silk kimono” can be introduced by way of Mary Rogers, Nicolás Cruz Valdivieso and Julio Henriquez Munita.