La fatalidad de la gallina
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Book Presentation of the most recent novel by Martha Cecilia Rivera, a conversation with the author and her critics. Moderated by writer Fernando Olzanski.
Through a narrative that is poetical in most pages and happily erotically nuanced, Martha Cecilia Rivera courageously joins the club of those great writers going after consciousness with their literary fiction. Absorbed in a work environment that he hardly can endure, the narrator and main character is an ironist to usual circumstances, a sort of “metaphysical voyeur”. Working with a business organization to expand its grip internationally, his real interest is a woman who can be seen only in a chiaroscuro. She will be tormented by the sordid trap that generally lies in wait in that kind of place: Irene. She is poem, is seduction, is sensuousness. She is both, an excuse and a way for happenings (which are presented behind that essential adventure of imagination) to not to bury or prostrate the hero, but rather propel him and allow him to build his own myth over the debris of his gray and lean life.
Martha Cecilia Rivera was the first Latina female immigrant that published a novel in Spanish in Windy City (Fantasmas para Noches Largas, now available in English as Ghosts for Long Nights. ) Her work has been published in the US., Colombia and Spain, having obtained international awards. La fatalidad de la gallina is her second published novel.
Iván Beltrán Castillo, a journalist and poet living in Colombia, has authored poetry books (Consagración del espejismo), novels (Café con aroma de mujer), chronicles, playwrights and TV series. He’s won National Awards in Journalism, Poetry and Playwriting, as well as various distinctions in his poetry and short story Anthologies in Latinoamérica.
Bernardo E. Navia has published prose and poetry in several magazines and literary journals in the USA, Canada, Latin America and Europe. Currently he is a Spanish professor at UIC. Sobre destinos, ciudad y dios is the title of his most recently published volume of short stories.
Fernando Olszanski is the Director of Ars Communis Editorial, writer, editor and visual artist. He’s lived in Escocia, Ecuador, Japan and several US cities. His most recent book’s title is Rojo sobre blanco y otros relatos. He lives in Chicago.
Fermina Ponce, a journalist and poet, has published the poetry books Al desnudo y Mar de (l)una, which include prologues from Carlos García Ruiz (España) and Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda (Colombia) respectively. She was nominated by the Colombian Consulate in Chicago for the award “Los 22 más” 2017. She lives in Chicago.