Behind his dark glasses and under his hieratic grin, which sometimes even appears to be contempt, animosity but rather nihilism, we find the creative type, lover of controversy (because without it few thrive in the monster of the current television machinery ...), and capable of more general confusion. That is Risto Mejide and yes also literary had things to say.
He is not the first writer rediscovered from the television platform of the day. Phenomena come to stay from the type screen Carme Chaparro o Carlos of Love have shown that the literary was not a matter of a wildfire, of an effect for the day of St. George on duty ... Although the narrative analogies of Risto would have to be sought in other authors type Frédéric Beigbeder, with a work background in advertising that rescues them from certain current hells ...
The thing is that Risto Mejide, who has been putting out books since 2008. Novels, essays or disclosure. The question is to give way to a powerful imaginary that as soon as it fictionalizes as it develops those ideas that are already sensed well rested in its particular way of looking at the world.
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The gossip
Everyone expects a point of creative eccentricity from Risto. And of course considering a plot with its beginning, its middle and its ending is like thinking about pulling the missionary's posture in the middle of an orgy.
Of course, as a preamble, Risto had already written other types of books more in line with his profession. But the landing in a novel like this is three universes apart from everything seen before. How could it be otherwise, the author starts from an almost estrangement kafkaesque to provide that novel perspective of the entire plot.
Once we have established that the disconcerting is part of the matter (precisely a creative space where Mejide moves like a pig in its pond), we are advancing step by step in that constant discovery that is to see the world from another focus. And yes, nothing was what it seemed, but that is precisely what happens with life itself and only the wealthiest are carried away by appearances and dictates ...
What would happen if one day we woke up and a voice whispered into our ears what we have to say and do to achieve absolute success in all facets of our lives? Who would refuse to follow his instructions?
If you notice, today we adult humans are surrendered to the empire of images, I am not saying only by Instagram, advertising, the media, also by video, first it was HD, then 4k, then 8k, resolution, resolution , resolution. Now you will see how we will become obsessed with facial recognition and all its possibilities. Meanwhile, the machines are overtaking us on the right with the ear: look at Alexa, Siri, Ok Google, or Echo. While human beings are concerned to see better what we see, machines are concerned to hear better what they hear.
Risto Mejide, who has achieved so many successes with his non-fiction books, is now launching a novel in which he captures from the front line about the limits, paradoxes and servitudes to which the unstoppable advance of Artificial Intelligence leads us . The reader passionately follows the adventures of its protagonist, Diego, to whom someone gives the opportunity that so many of us would dream of, even if for that we had to renounce the truth.
Initiative is the basis of life. Initiative first, and then everything else. Survival, independence and in the end, transcendence. That computer, which does not stop executing lines programmed by Diego, is finally doing something that has not been ordered. Like Stanford's robot Shakey in the 70s, he is capable of reasoning about his own actions. But this one, in addition, turns on and off when it wants, sends messages, recognizes voices, is happy when it sees you. It is the beginning of humanity. It is the beginning of our end ...
A very suspicious death, a media hoax, a journalist on the verge of failure, an unscrupulous multinational, a mysterious winner, in short a novel as brilliant as it is unpredictable and uncomfortable and that from the first lines gets the reader to do something so frowned upon , discouraged and dangerous as THINKING.
May death be with you
We continue in the field of fiction to discover a surprising novel with all kinds of edges to discover in a relationship that leads us through the most unsuspected twists and turns of love. Because if we start to consider phases of love in a relationship, there are moments as intense as they are opposite, as ecstatic as they are maddening ...
This is how almost all love stories really begin. And so they usually stay, hopefully, for a long time. In fact, most relationships end precisely when a boy meets a girl, or vice versa.
This is the story of Toscano and Paula, two kindred souls who do not know each other at all, but who have too much intuition. They sense each other so much that they are ready to go on any trip to find each other. She, through the pleasures and servitudes of the rendezvous and the flesh. He, through a sky of the most advertising, crematistic and commercial. And among them, the only barrier that - they say - is insurmountable (dying) and the only end that justifies all means (loving each other).
Dictionary of things that I did not know how to explain to you
It seems easy to understand that, in cold guys like Risto Mejide, things always have to be left in the pipeline. Because the most convenient emotional opening is always the opposite side to the impostures with which to overcome trauma or get away from criticism ...
«This is not a dictionary ... behind here there are no scholars, nor academics, nor people who know what they are talking about ... Here you have 44 years of emotional and sentimental learning summarized in phrases, definitions and more or less correct sentences, you will decide that your…".
Risto, in his pure essence, writes what he feels. He does not intend to define things, but what they mean to him: feelings, emotions, personal experiences, etc., which will make us identify with him on many occasions, or not, but which, like everything he writes, are wonderfully told, with irony, humor and wit.
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sixteen notes
The music lover's excuse to delve into the innards of the myth as an exemplary value for everyone else. Being the object of the most absolute admiration has a story to tell between unparalleled creativity and imperishable works. Because behind is the tangible, the mundane, the accessible and understandable love for anyone. Because the human remains in its most basic sense, beyond being touched by all the muses or that, on the contrary, they do not know how to join two musical notes...
This novel is not about Bach. It's not even about music. This novel is about freedom. The freedom to love who you want and where you want. In short, the freedom to be you.
1720. After the recent death of his wife, Johan Sebastian Bach meets a soprano almost twice his age and they both make the worst of mistakes: falling in love. Risto Mejide dazzles with his most important literary project: a great novel about Johann Sebastian Bach. The life of the best musician of all time, as no one had ever told it.
Second aid manual
In the title of this book we discover the publicist endowed with that imprint capable of disconcerting any target. In this case, it was about captivating potential readers in search of books with a self-help point to pull forward. Knowing, yes, that Risto's are not the stereotypical messages for that happy reunion with the self. It is rather the save who may that is assumed when discovering what this living is all about...
This is not a manual. Not a dictionary. Not even a guide. Basically, because it is not ordered. Like life, which always comes as it pleases. After a powder, an asterisk in the analytics; before any birthday, a funeral. This is more like a handful of whens starring a few whos who are determined to find a why for everything.
