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The Boy Inside the Letter (Paperback)
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The Boy Inside the Letter (Paperback)
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"Adolescence prepares us for adulthood, but nothing truly prepares
us for adolescence," says the protagonist of The Boy Inside the
Letter. This autobiographical work written in the style of a
Knstlerroman -a novel of artistic education- provides a rare
glimpse into the mind of a XXIst century artist during his art
school years. The novel departs from the author's actual personal
diaries written at the time when he was 17 to 21 years old, serving
as a day-by-day account of the most important transition of his
life, relocating from one country to another, growing from
adolescence into adulthood, and looking for the ideal love, while
at the same time attempting to navigate the difficult road toward
becoming a contemporary artist. In this narration outlining a
multiple journey that includes Mexico City, Chicago, and Barcelona,
we join the frustrations and desires of a young artist who eagerly
awaits to find his ideal interlocutor, his artistic voice, and to
make sense of the vast and daunting world plagued by the devils of
adolescence, wishing for a better time, hoping, like any other
young person, to find someone to understand his ordeal. +++++++++++
Pablo Helguera is a visual artist living in New York whose works
and performances have been presented in museums and art spaces
internationally. He is the author of many performance text and
plays, as well of the books Endingness, The Witches of Tepoztln
(and Other Unpublished Operas), and The Pablo Helguera Manual of
Contemporary Art Style. +++++++++ Praise for The Pablo Helguera
Manual of Contemporary Art Style: "Pablo Helguera has written the
book we have all been waiting for." -Art Metropole "You will sob,
even howl, with laughter." -FlashArt "The balancing act between
flippancy and gravity is neither easy to achieve nor to sustain,
yet Helguera manages it with ease." -Art Review
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