Interview with Ángel Olgoso by TodoLiteratura

Fagus Editorial publishes "Nubes de piedra", the first unpublished stories of Ángel Olgoso's adolescence and early youth have been brought together in this volume as a blazing collection of texts as crazy,

free, as senseless, and as disturbing as those forms that we see often in cloud settings.

TL: How would you define or present “Nubes de piedra”?

AO: This book is my literary prehistory -my narrative prehistory specifically-, from which only the first attempts in prose after five years of writing poetry have been left out. I wrote it in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and I think the seeds of the main themes of my subsequent books are already present: the strange, the surprising, the irony or even satire, the extravagant premises, the nightmarish or the dizzying compositions, the amazing ideas, the compositional challenges. I believe that the 35 stories of "Nubes de piedra" live in that borderline state between dream and reality, between humor and the insolence typical of early youth, between fantasy and an incipient formal demand: that this narrator was already beginning to enjoy with the subversive capacity of short stories.

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