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The memories and ghosts of José Carlos Llop

2021-05-01T04:53:52.872Z


THE CHRONICLE OF ERIC NEUHOFF - In his short stories, there is nostalgia, escaped landscapes and deserted avenues. Texts that above all invite you to travel.


How do you say Modiano in Spanish?

José Carlos Llop, like his French counterpart, has the gift of nostalgia, of fled landscapes, of the dust that covers memories that we may have invented.

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In her short stories, there are frivolous singers, the heels of a mother echoing in a hallway at night, bathing in the sea, a parrot called Ulysses.

In hotels as empty as that

of Bergman's

Silence

meet underworld characters, Romanians with indefinite incomes.

And that couple from Suite 501, wasn't that the Windsors?

Many references

This often happens during war, in troubled times.

The soldiers are watching.

The shadow of Franco hangs over these pages which smell of attic and perdition.

The past of some has not necessarily been very glorious.

Llop has a fascination with details, a business card in the name of Jean Montague Hazard, a volume of Jouhandeau bought in a bookstore avenue de

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Source: lefigaro

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