Kafka en traje de baño
Franco Félix

NONFICTION | 2013 | 127 pages

“It was merely an idea. A senseless joke told at a party. A boy in Hermosillo is a relative of Franz Kafka. From that moment on, that premise took hold on me…I dug for years. And I found Kafka’s real relatives in Mexico. Fortunately, I was able to contact them. What began as a lie turned into something real,” says Franco Félix in this book’s eponymous chronicle.

In “El origen del autismo,” he confesses: “I’m a part-time investigator. We can’t say that I offer the services of a regular detective—for TV, the box office, spectacular. I only search for clues, follow people, take notes in my notebook. I don’t charge. I try to live an extraordinary life based on others…squeezing out the stories they have for me.”

And, in “Vacaciones en el Borda:” “I was trying to solve one of my favorite cases—the ones no one is interested in; the lost ones.” The discovery of a mummified body in the Borda, the notorious Argentine mental hospital, whose entrails he decided to investigate.

The playful seriousness with which these three magnificent pieces were written provokes silent laughter, strange laughs that spring from astonishment.

RIGHTS: spanish NITRO PRESS

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