Freedom Press

Words in the Snow

£7.95

by Juan Pedro Aparicio, Luis Mateo Diez, Jose Maria Merino

The “Filandon” in Hay-on-Wye.

This volume collects the tales that are the basis for Aparicio, Diez and Merino’s “Filandon”: that is, very short stories of a genre reborn midway through the twentieth century and known variously as the micro-story, mini-fiction or mini-tale – specialists can’t quite settle on the most appropriate term for it- currently booming in Latin America and Spain. A genre distinguished for its brevity, dramatic intensity, an expressive concision, a capacity for suggestion and a formal autonomy that is typical of the literary Short Story; a genre eager for experimentation and the rebuilding of certain archetypes.

In September 2006, this “Filandon” was presented in the Hay-on-Wye festival in Segovia, Spain, to great acclaim. In January 2007, the three authors repeated the experience in Cartagena de Indias, Columbia, also within the framework of the Hay-on-Wye festival; roused to a standing ovation and fervent calls of ‘bravo’, the audience’s reaction had all the clamour and warmth of an unforgettable musical or operatic evening.

In Castillian and English. Translated by Simon Breden Santos.

Christie Books
2007
ISBN: 1873976321
139 pages
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