Chronicles to scare the demons away

It is the compilation of a series of stories and urban chronicles that I have been collecting over the years at ground level. Whether from the shadows of the night, or in full sunlight, as I wander through the streets and places of Culiacán. It is a free exercise, stripped of any literary pretension, which only tries to portray the simplicity of everyday life, through the different characters found in the squares, streets, bars and neighbourhoods of my city. They are constructed on the basis of an image, a phrase or a key word, which encourages the imagination and at the same time is the trigger that makes it possible to authorise the construction of fiction about their own lives. They are also, after all, a very personal way of exorcising the nocturnal demons that keep me awake at night.

Autorentext

José Joaquín Leyva. Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexiko, 1957. Er begann seine journalistische Laufbahn als Kolumnist bei der Lokalzeitung El Debate de Culiacán, wo er bis 1991 seine Kulturkolumne Desde Acá schrieb. Im Jahr 1990 erhielt er die erste und dritte ehrenvolle Erwähnung beim Kulturjournalistenpreis des "Festival Cultural Sinaloa".