The writer Carlos Zanón presents in Tres Culturas I was Johnny Thunders (RBA), his new work in which he portrays a Barcelona populated by characters desperately looking for another chance, pierced by the poetry of the losers and the rock and roll.
This fourth novel by Zanón establishes him as an author who is transforming the way noir genre is written in Spain, creating his own unique and particular narrative style. He will talk about all of this and his creative process in Tres Culturas, in a meeting with the artist Andrés Herrera, alias BirdThey will discuss the importance of music in this work, always accompanied by the guitar of this rocker, who will add rhythm to this meeting.
This novel is the chronicle of a journey into the void that begins when Francis, Mr. Frankie, decides to return to his neighbourhood. He left there in pursuit of his particular rock and roll dream, which led him to his fingertips of toxic and ephemeral fame. Now Francis returns to leave misery and drug addiction behind. But his old neighbourhood is in ruins where his father, his half-sister, his first girlfriend and the odd friend still roam. Francis wants to start over and make things right. The problem is the shortcuts, the three-minute songs, the impossibility of forgetting who he was. Mind you, he was once Johnny Thunders.
Carlos Zanón (Barcelona, 1966)
Poet, novelist, scriptwriter, article writer and literary critic. He published his first poems in the early eighties and has published five volumes to date, praised by the specialised critics, including The taste of your drunk mouth (1989), Illusions and dreams of 10,000 suitcases (1996), In the bear park (2001), Some ways to forget Genghis Khan (Valencia Poetry Prize 2004) and Tick tock tick tock (2010), as well as appearing in several anthologies.
As a novelist, he made his debut in 2008 with the work Nobody loves a good manwhich was followed a year later by Late, wrong and never (Brigada 21 Award for the Best First Crime Novel 2010) and in 2012 Don't call home (Valencia Negra Prize for Best Novel of the Year). He has just published his new collection of poems entitled Rock and Roll.
He is also a regular contributor to various media and a lyricist, most notably his songs for Alicia Golpea, a group of which he was a member during the first half of the nineties. His work has been translated and published in the United States, Holland, France, Italy and Germany.
Andrés Herrera, alias Bird (Seville, 1963)
A guitarist and rocker from Seville, he has played with artists such as Silvio, Raimundo Amador and Kiko Veneno. In 2012, he presented his debut solo album to great critical and public acclaim: Santa Leonea work in which he combined his love of westerns, Easter music and rock.
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