Toscana, David

Mexican novelist David Toscana describes his narrative aesthetics as "realismo desquiciado" (unrestrained realism), breaking with the Latin trend of magic realism through a prose that keeps an eye on the concrete experience of life in all its absurdity and lavish strangeness. In its original Spanish El ltimo lector was awarded the National Colima Prize, the Prmio Jos Fuentes Mares, and the Antonin Artaud Prize and was also shortlisted for Latin America's most important literary award, the Rmulo Gallegos International Novel Prize.