“Loquela” Book Discussion & Signing | Oakland

Submitted by the Event Organizer

A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Carlos Labbé to the store to discuss and sign his new literary detective novel, Loquela, on Saturday, January 16th at 7:00pm. Joining him in converstion will be the translator, Will Vanderhyden.

Loquela, Carlos Labbé’s fourth novel and second to be translated into English, is a narrative chameleon, a shape-shifting exploration of fiction’s possibilities. At a basic level, this book is like a hybrid of Julio Cortázar and Paul Auster: a distorted detective novel, a love story, and a radical statement about narrative art. Behind the silence that unites and separates Carlos and Elisa, behind the game that estranges the albino girls, Alicia and Violeta, from the best summer afternoons, behind the destiny of Neutria—a city that disappears with childhood and returns with desire—and behind a literary movement that might be the ultimate vanguard while at the same time the greatest falsification, questions arise concerning who truly writes for whom in a novel—the author or the reader.

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