Frank Turon is an actorbut as a poet he uses the pseudonym Humberto Rangel and as a playwright Paco Pater Comunitais, and his books are published independently and are the ones he will bring to Monterrey for a different presentation: audiovisual and interactive.
The event will begin with an act of declamation of his book “Unbridled Love Poems”, and then there will be a guided meditation that is the second act of his monologue “Cyber Guru” which lasts about 15 minutes and as a third part will talk about the “Nanofictions” volume 1 and 2, which includes the projection of nanofilms.
In interview, Turón talks about his four works and the paths of the digital age, from which he takes up some elements for his presentations, as well as his opinion of the future of the book.
So the opportunity is unique to see Frank Turón, who is the creator of the genres performative psychotherapy, technological theater, quantum theater and the term nanofiction, as well as being an actor, producer and artistic director of the Mobile Theater. Journalist and expert in cultural issues, he presides over the Higher Institute of Performing and Cinematographic Arts.
The event is this Monday at the Fray Servando Teresa de Mier bookstore of the FCE, at 18:00. Renato Tinajero participates. Free entry. The bookstore, where Turón’s works can be found, is located on Avenida San Pedro 222 north, Miravalle neighborhood, Monterrey. Telephones: 8183350319, 8183350371 and 8183350869.
What do you have prepared from your book “Unbridled Love Poems”?
Within the presentation I am going to recite some of my poems, because I am also a reciter, one of the “Unbridled Love Poems”, which is also a rescue of lost popular traditions. The declamation has also already been lost, since the 50s with the carps, the art of the bard, of the reciter of his poetry, so I do this rescue.
How long have you not seen a bard declaim or a poetry event?
This tradition and somehow this rescue has disappeared, as well as at a semiological level with language, which are written in a classical metric and rhythm. There are different figures of literary architecture that you can find in this work, but with very contemporary anecdotes.
And what do you plan for the presentation of “The Cyber Guru”?
From this work, whose thematic axis is endogenous and exogenous depressions, we are going to do the second act, which is a collective meditation, which is cathartic, a meditation oriented towards forgiveness, towards reconciliation. The play has that interactive end and that I have presented in Mexico City, but not in Monterrey, so it is a good opportunity to see the second act.
In fact, those who participate are asked for permission to do this meditation, since in the end it is healing, and in some way it is about solving these problems that perhaps we have been dragging since childhood.
And what do “Nanofictions” consist of?
It is the term of contribution, innovation, to universal literature, which are the nanofictions that we are going to present in volumes 1 and 2, which are the books with the greatest number of stories that are read in the shortest possible time in the history of world literature.
Then I also quickly passed Ernest Hemingway who had written a six-word story about abortion that says “I am selling unused baby shoes”, which is entitled “I am selling shoes” and in Spanish, Augusto Monterroso, who did the “Dinosaur” story, which says “When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.” I already exceeded them because I even have an onomatopoeia, nanofiction 500 called “Facundia”, which is “oh!”, but also for telling you another: “Make a wish for you”, there I already exceeded them because there are five words .
In this part we are going to project nanofilms, which is that this type of cinema is being made based on literature, which is the cineminuto, which lasts 60 seconds, is the smallest format of cinematography. And now with the contribution of nanofictions, which, unlike microfiction, makes cinema out of literature, out of cineseconds. So these nanofictions are becoming nanofilms and I am going to present some, which are taken from the “Nanofictions” books.
What is the intention of inventing, for example, “Nanofictions”?
That is interesting because within the world of the story he has a very curious relationship with the editor and the reader. I have worked on many projects with my independent publisher. It is also quite an issue that is worth noting the effort involved in editing a book today, distributing it in a country of non-readers.
The Inegi reading module has measured the statistics where the average Mexican reads 3.4 books a year; young people between the ages of 14 and 25 are reading .4 books, they don’t even read the street signs. Somehow I invented this literary toy to seduce people to read, and they say that they don’t read because they are immersed in the internet, but I knocked that theory down, because for example in Japan a young person in that same average age range read 50 books when you can read 50, 53 books a year, more than anything it is educating people to the habit of reading.
What do you think of digital reading? Are you already thinking about your books for these cybernetic readers?
Cybernetic literature is a very important topic in our time. Today you can install online applications that give you access to gigantic digital libraries where you can find the largest collections of e-books on literature, fiction, best-sellers, art, history, foreign languages, romance, science, politics , laws, spirituality, religions, philosophy, with all the titles you can imagine.
There are also newspapers, magazines, comics, comics, manga, it is a service with which e-book readers can read books on demand, as if it were a streaming platform. That access to a library that is growing, all this content is obtained with the touch of a screen on a device, that is the question of the reader of the third millennium, and in short it is an attractive advantage that all e-book readers have, which is when they read their eyes are not tired, they are presented with an anti-reflective screen, which can be read as if it were a book.
Another advantage of this era of cyberliterature is that these applications are optimized for lightweight and portable devices. Right now in a Kindle you can put a thousand, 1,600 books, so they offer the possibility of saving and carrying thousands of books in one interface.
Now, therefore, it is not surprising that e-books have been displacing printed books, it is the reality that those of us who publish books, who publish books, are living now, in terms of that new reader that you have to address . In the not too distant future, I am sure that with the passage of time, these printed books will gradually disappear until they are collected as objects in an archeology museum, that is the future of the book.
What is the next step of the digital book?
That is why now the book is an art object, a living, organic being, which is tending to disappear, since on the other hand and thanks to technology, there is also a very large tendency for there to be a decrease in book readers. printed, as well as electronic books, and at the same time the number of audio readers and audio books is increasing considerably.
So, in the world publishing market, this dialectic between reading versus listening is faced. The experience of reading an audiobook and reading are different experiences, and the audiobook is the new bet of the publishing industry. The audiobook experience is filling spaces while driving the car, washing the dishes or playing sports, etc. That allows them some degree of distraction, because it doesn’t have your full attention.
In the US, the industry has generated 2 thousand 500 million dollars in its output in 2017, from this emerging market questions of a scientific or philosophical nature arise: Is listening to a book is reading?
This is an interesting phenomenon, both reading and listening involve the same neural structures, but reading itself facilitates the decoding of language, symbolic thought, and this fact favors access to the unconscious content of the brain, reorganizing brain structures and networks. neural. The reading system is located in the left hemisphere of the brain and the same areas of the brain are activated, but it does not mean that it is the same experience. The brain processes information differently.
Frank Turón brings his “Nanoficciones” to the Fray Servando bookstore