Translation Rights TQE / Stories of the Far West

Luciano G. Egido, always seeking to explore new territories without losing his already classic originality, has managed to transcend the fantastic terror novel with his last book, La piel del tiempo (The Rind of Time). In his most recent work, Cuentos del Lejano Oeste (Stories of the Far West), the reader will once again see that in this field, as in so many others which the author was visited, Egido moves with great ease and masterful skill.

Inspired by the common subjects of movies and narrations about the Far West – violence, death, escape, sex, loneliness, and honour –, Luciano G. Egido has woven a literary tapestry that experiments with narrative schemes. Using the progressive development of classical fiction, he integrates traditional tales with the new form of micro-tales, in a crescendo of complexity that goes from a tale of two words to a fifteen-page narration.

Luciano G. Egido was born in Salamanca in 1928. After a lifetime’s dedication to the University, literary journalism and the cinema, he published his first novel El cuarzo rojo de Salamanca (The Red Quartz of Salamanca) at the age of 63. With this first novel he won the Miguel Delibes Prize in 1993. With his second, El corazón inmóvil (The Immobile Heart), he obtained the Critics’ Award in 1995. The reader will agree that Egido’s beginnings as a novelist are enviable, and that it would be ridiculous to deny that he is one of the contemporary writers clearly destined for immanent and definitive preeminence.