Risas enlatadas
An American television scriptwriter who reconfigures his trajectory based on the changing coordinates of his immediate surroundings creates a special Fahrenheit 451 episode. An adolescent, who at four years old locked her father in a freezer room, arrives in London to study art and set up her life as an artistic palimpsest to Jennifer Jason Leigh. Alfred Molina struggles to escape the shadow of the success of his role in Prick Up Your Ears. An Indian immigrant in 1980’s Paris tries to make his identity fit into the parameters of a French television show about diversity. Duncan “Fat Ass” McNairn and his working class Scottish family are the protaganists of various literary masterworks, such as Pride and Prejudice and Ulysses.
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«Calvo creates, to put it mildly, a neurotic universe which transcends the humourous to offer a satirical vision filled with cultural references that is very much a product of his generation.» Xavi Ayén, La Vanguardia
«Javier Calvo has written a book which entertains and disturbs. It’s hard to put down and even harder to forget.» Juan Bonilla, El Mundo
«These pages evoke Martin Amis, Pynchon and Ballard…It has been a long time since I’ve read anything that deals so well with the concept of reality and unreality in contemporary society.» J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País
