By Diego Erlan
"While traveling from Texas to New York by car and sleeping in" motels "depressing (from Memphis, example), Diego Trelles Paz, Peruvian writer and a doctorate in literature from the University of Austin (Texas), tells me by mail the job he took The future is not our , sample most interesting of recent Latin American fiction. Sixty-three stories selected by Trelles Paz, can be read online at Colombian magazine Footer. Authors from 16 different countries, born between 1970 and 1980, who lived in their training the fall of the Berlin Wall, the suicide of Kurt Cobain, the emergence of Internet and the invasion of Iraq by the U.S.. UU. Alejandro Zambra, Santiago Roncagliolo, Andrew Neuman, Antonio Coelho Ungar and Oliver are among the names that can be read here. The project will not only stay on the internet. Also prepared a paper version may be published in various countries of the continent (one per country) and the first will be Argentina, in early 2009, through the Cadence label Eternal . The other peculiarity of this anthology is its negation, which worries from the title. In the foreword , Trelles Paz said that this work comes "in response to a series of misunderstandings associated with the idea demagogic slogan which proclaimed and repeated ad nauseam, that the future belongs to the young" . and hopes to return to the initial steps of productive dialogue and alliance between writer and reader germ. Thus, the text ends with a warning to those who read it: "Come and see that here we are back to the future, telling the collapse"
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