Last night in a whorehouse

By: Emerson Callejas Tapia

Mr. Viscarra accomplishes something which very few

writers do. He has a style combining accuracy, liveliness, quiet, rawness and tenderness, qualities which do not often go together.

I think Viscarra's narrative... succeds admirably, in part because he, like Samuel Beckett, recognizes the comic possibilities inherent in the tailspin of logic toward the absurd. The many characters are ethereally real. He has you hipnotized from the beggining 'till the end.

You believe that people really are like the people he writes about and draws. And looking back on it, you see no reason to change your mind.They are.

Relatos de Vitor Hugo was published originally only in Cochabamba (a departament in Bolivia) in 1.996 at the time didn't have drawings such as this renewed second edition, (Editorial Tercera Piel, 2.005) the drawings and the cover art belongs to Mr. Pablo Gozalves and a prologue from Virginia Aillon.

Also, as a kind of bonus track, let's say, includes a new version of the old tale; Recuerdo perdido en el deseo (Lost memory in-to desire), renamed as; Anoche en un putero (Last night in a whorehouse) which was acted twice by the known Bolivian actor Jorge Ortiz, fully naked.

The cover you see belongs to the second renewed edition by Viscarra himself, it has fifteen short stories including the new version I mentioned, which along the drawings are the perfect chemical mix; titles such as; Habia una vez...un niño, Yo casto, Busco a un amigo and La frontera.