
El teatro de la luz
Gadir, 2013
Awards
Fundación MonteLeón Award
Press
“El teatro de la luz is an intense, original novel, with a clear desire to make its stylistic mark, away from the well-worn paths trodden by contemporary Spanish writing …” Leer
“Hurtling along at breakneck speed, Vico’s novel hooks the reader.” Albert Lladó, La Vanguardia
“Juan Vico’s characters tend to be underdogs (albeit free ones), depicted in unsettling, sordid settings. Above all, he portrays them in their search to break with convention, in keeping with his unconventional writing style: working with surgical precision to sculpt the manifold facets of human personality and establishing himself firmly within an authentic, non-conformist classical approach that bears witness to his mature aesthetics, guaranteeing the endless, always bountiful connections between an urban setting, cinema and literature, sure to delight all kinds of readers.” Agustín Calvo Galán, Revista de Letras
Synopsis
(The Theater of Light) Barcelona, the 1920s. Mauricio is a young skeptic with one single passion: the movies. A chance encounter leads him to make the acquaintance of Emilio Ciret, a director seeking to break new ground in an artistic form that has already fallen prey to bourgeois complacency, shooting the seamier side of city life. Racketeering, crime, prostitution … Mauricio throws himself headlong into his passion for the silver screen and becomes Ciret’s screenwriter, assistant and confidant. The protagonists of El teatro de la luz tread the perilous line that separates the well-heeled from the murky underworld. The novel breaks free of the conventions of noir fiction in a brilliant, at times experimental, exploration of the ties that bind life, cinema and literature.
MB Authors Fiction
- Pepa AGUAR
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Flavita BANANA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- María BASTARÓS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- BLACKIE BOOKS
- Joana BONET
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Bibiana CANDIA
- Leonardo CANO
- Pablo CARBONELL
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Malén DENÍS
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Maria ESCALAS
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Eneko FERNÁNDEZ
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Miguel GALLARDO
- Olivia GALLO
- Xenia GARCÍA
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- David B. GIL
- Santi GIMÉNEZ
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Enric GONZÁLEZ
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Luci GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Shaina Joy MACHLUS
- Adrià MARQUÈS
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Ramon MAS
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Amarna MILLER
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Anna PACHECO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Carmen ROMERO
- Xavier RUBERT DE VENTÓS
- Gemma RUIZ
- Juanjo SÁEZ
- Gabriel SALVADÓ
- Màrius SERRA
- Rubén SERRANO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- José Miguel TOMASENA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rosario VILLAJOS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI