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Jorge Volpi published a volume containing three stories of "midway" - Gender need "patience of a novelist and storyteller agility"

Writer Mexican Jorge Volpi, photographed in Madrid. Photo: Álvaro García.fuente: elpais.com

not dictatorship or anarchy democracy. Neither novel or long story short: all long story is "a bad story" and all short novel is "almost always, a long history that has suffered an amputation." Marathon or even a hundred meter dash: middle distance. What conditions need to practice? "Patience agility novelist and storyteller." Jorge Volpi (Mexico, 1968) opens his new book with six brilliant pages in which, weaving, seeks to define the ambiguous poetic of the three texts it contains. Publishers, meanwhile, seem to have things more clearly and next to the title of the volume - Days of rage (Pages foam) - have placed a clear word: storytelling. Volpi

not give more importance to the detail and admitted that, given the examples that he lists - The Metamorphosis, The dead, Pedro Páramo - this is not a genre but a bad reputation ill-defined: "the average distance has been masterpieces of world literature. For many, Aura is the major work of Carlos Fuentes. and has 62 pages." The author of In Search of Klingsor says he did not write the three "hybrid" which have now been looking for a sense of unity. Only to see them together realized that they had something in common: "They talk about relationships ending in a muddy by the intervention of a third person."

The first of these - Despite the dark silence - focuses on the obsession of the protagonist by Mexican Jorge Cuesta, poet and chemist, crazy and suicidal. Volpi recalled that the first text published in life was an essay on the enigmatic character, who Octavio Paz considered the smartest man he had known. "By then, the late eighties, has not yet talked about autofiction, but some of it is," says the novelist. Any author who now cause it costs the same effect as 20 years ago? "Yes, JM Coetzee."

Meanwhile, The Revelation Game, the story that closes anger Days traces the journey of a couple other to Patmos, the island where St John wrote his famous revelation. The closeness of the December 31, 2000 provides that trip of a halo, indeed apocalyptic. "I Patmos, yes, "says the writer," but the rest is fiction. "This fiction is a journey through the delusion of truth:" The excess leads to death or madness. "Volpi The three stories of crazy talk . Also readers. As stated in the main text, the title of the volume: "You think you are a reader and character."

Narrator and essayist, Volpi know much about promoting reading. After years of running Channel 22, the cultural channel of the Mexican public television, has just left office to join as an addition to the Embassy of your country in Rome. Are incompatible television and culture? "Absolutely. We found that for many people Channel 22 is your only contact with the culture. Do not go to the theater or concerts, but they see on television. Our great success was a reality show opera and ballet ".

addition, the concept of minority becomes relative:" The poetry program dedicated to 50,000 people see it. The hearing is catastrophic for commercial television, but if we think that in Mexico the books of poetry thrown 500 copies ... We also opened the only Mexican television program dedicated to sexual diversity. Was a success. And that in a society that, except in Mexico City, is still very conservative. "