Editorial Unimagdalena

Description in English: This installment of Feline Tales V comprises nine texts by nine authors. The stories maintain certain common lines despite addressing different issues and subjects. Failure runs through and motivates most of its plots. It is a complex, obsessive and lucid line of production, which confirms the investigative and critical vocation in handling the story found in authors of the Colombian Caribbean. In their master hands, the genre is a flexible vehicle when examining the fissures of the particular societies in which they move. These cracks take the precise shape of social denunciation, love frustration, and, to a lesser extent, the feeling of arriving late to some form of truth. They are images or drives, notorious in some texts, almost secret in others, which could well be read as the seasons of a country lost in its pace of absurd, anachronistic routines. The literature of the Caribbean region of Colombia continues in constant growth, overcoming fear and myths. One can only hope there are feline tales for a while.Abraham Rumsfeld