JUAN GABRIEL VASQUEZ
With Los informantes and Historia secreta de Costaguara, Vsquez has positioned himself as one of the most important writers of his generation. Here, he presents us with a new facet of his literary work: seventeen explorations that reveal a sharp, original and passionate reader; seventeen ways of confirming that fiction is like a drug, and its reader, an addict. El arte de la distorsin, the essay that lends it title to this volume, won the Simn Bolvar Award.