On 1 January 2002,
Mrriter@aol.com wrote:
: Jose Latour, the Cuban author of "Outcast," will be the
guest author
: for the month of January and the theme of "Latino Noir
and
: Hardboiled."
And he's a very welcome guest. Some people on the list will
remember him from Toronto last year at the Bloody Words
convention. He was on the panel I moderated and had some
fascinating and powerful things to say about life and writing
in Central and South America. Mr. Schooley summarized:
| Your panel also dealt with the social relevance of a form
that does
| not provide uplifting moral messages. Latour's comments
showed how the
| grim realities presented in noir provide social
transparency,
| revealing how power and corruption work, and their
consequences. Such
| transparency is essential to the human need for redemption.
But to
| even imply in fiction there will be a change in the human
condition is
| to be brutally dishonest.
Mr. Latour and OUTCAST, his one English novel, have been
mentioned on the list a number of times, and people might
want to search the archives by visiting
http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/archives/rasearch.cgi
and entering "latour" and turning on the "search the entire
archive" option.
Mr. Ramos's reading list for this month is also in the
archives, at
http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/archives/200111/0256.html
I only knew of Mr. Latour and Paco Ignacio Taibo, but there
are a bunch of other writers there I'll try to track down for
this month--including Mr. Ramos himself.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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