Teatro de sombras by Fermín López Costero

Abstract

The extraordinary poet and writer, F. López Costero is the author of an extraordinary book of short-short stories: Teatro de sombras, which connects with the great literary tradition leonesa (Antonio Pereira, Luis Mateo Díez, J, Mª Merino or Julio Llamazares) and also dialogues with the best Hispano-American writers: Juan Rulfo, Augusto Monterroso,  García Márquez y J. L. Borges, mainly with the Mexican.

López Costero considers literature as a net, like a web of intercommunicated texts. For that reason it is possible to find in his books secret passages and a constant transfer of characters, settings, atmospheres and narrative procedures. The stories of Teatro de sombras belongs to the parameters of fantasy literature while the author also explores also resources of the Science-Fiction and Horror Literature.