Fernando Andres Torres

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Walks Through Memories of Oblivion (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Walks Through Memories of Oblivion is a collection of short stories; a creative non-fiction narrative based on true events. Situations - rescued from my memory - that I, and other fellow prisoners experienced in prison. I was arrested at eighteen years of age, during the military regime that overthrew democracy and established a brutal dictatorship (1973-90) in Chile, my homeland. Although this collection has, as a backdrop, a critical political event, the stories are not about politics. These stories are personal; the flesh and bones behind the young and restless student militant that I was once; about how this young man faces prison and the experiences among other political and common prisoners. The stories range from my arrest until my expulsion into exile. In some of them I describe the mental disorders: how sanity finds its limits in confinement; the paradoxical everyday life inside the prison; others tell the horror of torture and death, another is the story of a woman searching for her missing son. I also have a couple of stories about my exile in Berkeley, Ca. There is a good game of dark humor and tales of subtle and small victories of human endurance and perseverance. The stories touch well-timed social justice issues and themes relevant to those readers interested in Latin America's so-called magical realism, psychology of the victims of political repression, solidarity movements, or for general readers interested in a good story with an unpredictable end.

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Autor

Fernando Andres Torres is a short-story writer, poet, musician and a freelance journalist currently contributing in English and Spanish to various San Francisco Bay Area media, including La Opinión de La Bahía, San Francisco Bay Guardian, El Tecolote, La Voz de Richmond, El Reportero, and Radio Bilingue. He is volunteer associate editor and U.S. correspondent for the web magazine Dilemas, and editor of the blog LatinOpen.wordpress.com. Under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Torres joined the Chilean resistance and in 1975 he was arrested by the regime's secret police. While imprisoned, he recited poetry and hand-wrote messages with quotes about optimism and hope to pass among fellow prisoners. After being expelled from Chile and exiled in 1977, Torres continued to write poetry and short stories. His first book of poetry, co-authored with Victoria Miranda; On the Edges of a Countryless Weariness, was published under his pseudonym Camilo Feñini by Ism Press in 1986. Some of Torres fiction and non-fiction stories have been published in many magazines including ME: Multicultural Echoes, the magazine of the Department of International Languages, Literatures and Cultures of Chico's California State University. Torres has also been awarded fellowships by the New America Media in San Francisco. In 2018 his story Head Stew was selected as The Best New Writing 2018 by Hopewell Publications. In 2019, Scenes of Exile, a story based on Torres' exile, was published by The Bare Life Review Magazine, a journal of Immigrant and Refugees Literature. Other literary works by Mr. Torres have been published by Somos en Escrito Weebly; by Nobrow Fiction (2020); and by Lonely Cryptid Media (2020). Currently he is a member of the Advisory Board of ExposeFacts.org, and of the review panel of The Intrepid News Fund. As a composer and musician, Torres was a founding member of Latin American music ensemble Grupo Raiz, and have collaborated with many international musicians such as David Byrne, and shared the stage with American jewels like Pete Seeger and Holly Near.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Unsolicited Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201835880
• Artikelnr.: 64165520