2024-07-05 00:53:43
The Peruvian storyteller Julio Ramon Ribeyroborn in Lima on August 31 and died in the same place 65 years later, in December 1994, will be published posthumously with a book of unpublished stories through one of the Penguin Random House labels, the Alfaguara publishing house.
Is about Invitation to travel and other unpublished storiesa book made up of five stories that, according to the publisher, remained unpublished since the last century, for more than thirty years. It is presumed that the drafts were found, naturally, among his personal archives that he accumulated during his residence in Paris in the 1970s.
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«The disturbing urban setting, the failed erotic adventure, the absurd humor, the artist’s pressures and the fantastic experience make up the spirit of these stories in which the lucidity, sensitivity, grace and undeniable talent of the man who is the greatest storyteller of Peruvian literature“, he added. Penguin Random House.
The publisher itself notes that, with these stories once published, the most important storyteller in Peru will reach the figure of 100 published stories. And it is important to mention it because it was a figure that he always wanted to reach in terms of published stories. These five are added to “the eighty-seven stories he published in nine books, eight stories written posthumously in his literary “prehistory” and one more that he wrote in his last year of life.”
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Invitation to travel and other unpublished storieswhich will be presented next July 21 within the framework of the Lima International Book Fair and will go on sale, for now only in Peru, from July 16thhas a prologue written by the Colombian writer Santiago Gamboa and an epilogue written by the Peruvian writer Alonso Cueto. Both, of course, chosen for what Julio Ramón Ribeyro’s work represents for them in their profession as literary figures. In short, the edition that will be published will be hardcover and will include some reproductions of the original manuscripts.
“In his work, Ribeyro chose urban environments to construct the story of individual and collective frustration, narrated in a simple and ironic style. He recorded social inequalities and reflected oppressive environments with a technique close to expressionist realism. The richness of his literary work is located in a great variety of stylistic registers. His work is a fertile land cultivated over four decades and composed of thousands of pages of novels, plays, aphorisms, diaries, letters, stateless prose and, mainly, an essential collection of stories linked under the generic title of The Word of the Mute, to which are now added those of Invitation to travel and other unpublished stories“, the editorial concluded.
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2024-07-05 00:53:43