| Author: | Carlos Labbé | ISBN: | 9781948830010 |
| Publisher: | Open Letter | Publication: | May 21, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Open Letter | Language: | English |
| Author: | Carlos Labbé |
| ISBN: | 9781948830010 |
| Publisher: | Open Letter |
| Publication: | May 21, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Open Letter |
| Language: | English |
By blinking his eyes and moving his pupils, a paraplegic man—the onetime vocalist in a famous rock band—composes a kind of anti-biography that is corrected and expanded upon by an unknown editor. Alternating between the vocalist’s impressionistic recollections and the editor’s “corrections,” an asynchronous story emerges, evoking the vocalist’s childhood in southern Chile and telling of the rise and fall of the band that he grew up to lead, while hinting at a multiplicity of other narrative possibilities.
By blinking his eyes and moving his pupils, a paraplegic man—the onetime vocalist in a famous rock band—composes a kind of anti-biography that is corrected and expanded upon by an unknown editor. Alternating between the vocalist’s impressionistic recollections and the editor’s “corrections,” an asynchronous story emerges, evoking the vocalist’s childhood in southern Chile and telling of the rise and fall of the band that he grew up to lead, while hinting at a multiplicity of other narrative possibilities.
