There are unusual rewards when we come across a volume of short stories like "Los papeles amarillos" (The Yellow Papers), by the Sonoran writer Hugo Medina. It's difficult to determine how much he embraces the anecdotal elements of these tales or distances himself from them in his approach to them. But above all, he summons a style that humorously approaches the events it chronicles and draws on popular culture in more than one way to unsettle. This book delivers for its potential readers because, like the random and absurd nature of its characters, it offers us a journey in which we can assume the narrative perspective of a murderer who is also a time traveler, a ridiculous superhero who seems all too familiar to us, a victim of his own sexual appetite, an artist who constantly questions the appearances of reality, a down-and-out journalist, or a book that sustains the dimension in w...read more
