El taller literario
Francisco Bitar

NOVEL | 2024 | 176 pages

Gori Lizmayer, author of the saga Colapso, begins to understand that his novels—appreciated in their time by a select group of critics—will soon fall into oblivion. He earns a living teaching and working extra hours for an agricultural paper. And in order to become a writer, he opted never to get married or have children. Now, he’s blocked: it’s been a long time since he’s written a single word. One night, he’s out on a walk, and while chatting with a worker at a gas station he learns about a literary workshop in his coastal city. The information presents itself like an invitation to embark on an experiment that will perhaps re-light the practically extinguished flames of his writing. When he returns home, he gets in touch with the workshop coordinator and decides to sign up.

But of course, he’s Gori Lizmayer, the author of Colapso, and he can’t do it under his real name. And so Ghito Londres is born, a fake identity that walks the dangerous thin line between lies and fiction and that will take him to know love, companionship, and the unthinkable distaste of not being taken seriously. In this hyperrealistic novel with comedic overtones, Francisco Bitar mocks the often proclaimed end of literature by creating a beautiful homage to imagination and the important role it plays in our lives.

RIGHTS: spanish (world) EDITORIAL SIGILO