Cincuenta agujeros negros
By: Roberto Rubiano Vargas
Edition: 1. ed.
Series: Solo para adultos; Coleccion Solo para adultos
Publisher: Panamericana
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bogota, DC, Colombia
Language: spa
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9789583028960
Subjects: Colombian Short stories; Cuentos colombianos
Description: 50 extremely short (the longest is three pages) and dark tales. Astonishing transformations and unexpected twists take place: an angel, ill with acrophobia, cannot use his wings and must turn to other forms of transportation; a chess match between a mediocre worker and a tyrant boss changes into a medieval duel; a scientist decimates all the birds in the world while trying to record everything he can about these creatures' behavior. Some of Rubiano Vargas' tales are grouped by themes: five concern the art of writing. In "Sufrimiento" ("Suffering"), for instance, the Muse really exists and is strangled so that the author can achieve peace. Along the same lines, and reminiscent of Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo and Buster Keaton's Shelock Jr., the character of Dracula literally breaks out of the movie screen and decides to go to Hollywood looking for the fountain of youth.
Table of contents: title: 50.