Remembrance of A FICTIONALIZED PAST
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Remembrance of a Fictionalized Past follows a solitary narrator who turns back toward the life he once lived — or believes he lived — in search of the truths that slipped through his fingers. As he revisits the stories he crafted to survive his youth, he begins to unravel the quiet inventions, half truths, and deliberate omissions that shaped his identity. What begins as a simple act of remembering becomes a reckoning: with the people he loved, the choices he buried, and the versions of himself he created along the way. Memory becomes both companion and adversary as he sifts through the blurred boundary between what happened and what he needed to believe. Part autobiography, part meditation on the nature of truth, this narrative invites the reader into a mind wrestling with its own history — searching not just for answers, but for the courage to face them.
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While growing up within less-than-ideal circumstances, Christian Federico Osorio is a teenager when he is forced out into the world by his sexually abusive adoptive mother. While attending high school, he works in the French Quarter and helps found a small, leftist group focused on contemplating how to resolve world issues that eventually leads him to have interactions with Lee Harvey Oswald. As Osorio returns to the memories he once reshaped, he remembers his involvement with the assassination of Kennedy, his stints serving in the Vietnam War and working as an assassin for the CIA, living through a pandemic, and impregnating women as an octogenarian during the pandemic. While revisiting his past, Osorio soon discovers that the answers he seeks may lie in the stories he has tried hardest to forget.
About the Author
Genaro J. Pérez holds a B.A. in English and Spanish from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and the M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from Tulane University. He is a retired Professor of Hispanic Literature at Texas Tech University. His primary scholarly interests include Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Spanish and Latin American literature as well as Chicano literature. Professor Pérez’s academic publications include: Formalist Elements in the Novels of Juan Goytisolo; La novelística de J. Leyva; La novela como burla/juego: siete experimentos novelescos de Gonzalo Torrente Ballester; La narrativa de Concha Alós: Texto, pretexto y contexto; Ortodoxia y heterodoxia de la novela policiaca hispana: Variaciones sobre el género negro; Rabelais, Bajtin, y formalismo en la narrativa de Sergio Pitol; Subversión y de(s)construcción de subgéneros en la narrativa de Rosa Montero; Misoginia, machismo y sadismo en la narrativa noir: El placer del texto. His books of poems include: Prosapoemas; Spanish Quarter Notes; French Quarter Cantos; Ten Lepers and Other Poems: Exorcising Academic Demons, Estelas en la mar: Cantos sentimentales; and Pandemic Prater: Pastel Palliatives. His narrative includes: The Memoirs of John Conde, French Quarter Tales, and Pandemic Dreads: An Unfinished Manuscript. He is Co-Editor and Co-Publisher of Monographic Review/Revista monográfica (Volumes I-XXVIII), and is Co-Editor of the journal Dura.