The 3 best books by Pepe Colubi

The most fractious and subversive literature in Spain is currently run by authors such as santiago lorenzo o Pepe Colubí among some others who, with their dose of humor, surrealism, overflowing creativity and also acid criticism are differentiated by making the literary side take the most grotesque nowadays. A strange perspective of the Peter Pan complex passed through a lysergic filter towards sociological analysis.

In the end, these types of cases are upstarts in the literary world but more than well arrived for the necessary descent of the narrative into the mud of the unspeakable, of a script of the everyday stuffed with pearls for a narrative mosaic as unexpected from close quarters as it is brilliant. in the vision of its general composition.

But come on, what a geek analysis on my part, you can have a laugh and discover many of those plots taken from our most glorious days, when we were young and the world surrendered at our feet (fat laugh) or peek into that illustrious ignorance of the one we take we are worthy owners.

Top 3 recommended books by Pepe Colubi

California 83

If it is already cool to talk about your quixotic youthful becoming around the world between parties at the University and apartment vacations with your 15 friends, imagine writing a book about it with such grace that everyone reads it to you ...

In 1983, a Spanish teenager from the provinces was sent by his parents to California to live for a year with an American family and study COU. He leaves a country with a single television channel, few rock concerts and a heavy Catholic load to find 35 channels on the small screen, Police or The Clash just around the corner and a contagious joy of sinning.

Everything seems to fit in with the idea that had been made of the United States through movies and series: cheerleaders in high school, reverends in churches, mosquito nets on the doors of single-family homes and the Golden Gate in San Francisco.

He has changed Applause for MTV, the ball in the yard for surfing, the school backpack for the locker and Lib for Playboy, but first he will have to adapt to the customs of a Methodist family, the academic routines of another country, the use of an unknown language and the prohibition of drinking beer for being a minor. It doesn't seem very difficult; he will only have to overcome his pathological, obsessive and embarrassing aversion to the ridiculous. Well, it might not be that easy.

California 83

squirt 91

Discovered the reef, why are you going to stop telling your adventures such that if you were at the bar with a friend on duty having a laugh ...

As the 80s languish and a new uncertain decade begins, Pepe, a lost, confused and bewildered twentysomething, pretends to study Philology to take advantage of the English he has learned in California, works on what comes out as long as it does not involve much effort and He delivers, with unwavering perseverance, to bars, beer, music and the possibility of being rejected by all kinds of women.

Nondescript, destroyer And with a constantly seething sense of humor, Pepe Colubi will once again enthuse readers with a desire to laugh in his second novel, who will see their experiences reflected (both those they had and those they will always miss) in their love affairs at university. and revelers of the protagonist.

Squirt like 91

Dispersion

There are no two without three. The temptation was inescapable. We go there with that bio that ends up shaking the cultural foundations of an entire generation and also ends up removing the miseries of the Spanish-style American dream from the trash.

After presenting his year in the United States (California 83) and at the university (squirt 91), Pepe Colubi takes up the adventures of his alter ego at the moment when Pipi obtained his academic degree in 1994. Based on inconstancy, lack of ambition and a tendency not to make an effort, he will try to carve out a future without bending his back. No one has achieved less with so little.

Pipi enters working life without high expectations and with all the desire to have a good time. Precarious jobs, unstable relationships, tumultuous bars and riotous concerts as maturity imposes its criteria. What could go wrong?

A novel that achieves the empathy of the reader, even in its most pathetic, crawling and vile spells. A song out of tune to unjustified optimism, to the joy of living, to the healing power of music.

Dispersion
5/5 - (10 votes)

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