THE KILLER FLIES OF LUXOR: Partial Autobiography. Travel Chronicles. Dreams. Fantasies.

Agustin Blazquez's THE KILLER FLIES OF LUXOR, a novel about an artist's escape from Cuba into a dream-world of art and movies, in the picaresque style of Don Quixote and magical realism of Alejo Carpentier combined with the cinematic surrealism of Luis Buñuel.---Blazquez is a forthright author who is unafraid to deliver an intriguing perspective on issues that affected him personally, such as Communism: “The best defense the people of the world have against cancerous communism is to be well informed.” ...A passionately unconventional, revealing yet fragmented account of an artist’s journey.--Kirkus ReviewsThe great French painter Georges Braque famously said that "Art is a wound turned into light." Agustin Blazquez's THE KILLER FLIES OF LUXOR, a fictionalized memoir about an artist's confrontation with his exile from Cuba and subsequent escape into a dream-world of art and movies, is a testament to the power of Braque's insight.-- Scott Douglas Gerber, Author of "The Art of the Law: A Novel."A timeless essay of a Cuban nightmare. Those who lived 40 years ago, and those who will live 40 years after reading this book will feel the same fear, the same fanaticism, nostalgia, sorrows or joys of the artist in a landscape lost in oblivion, or in streets that have already changed their names. It's not in Luxor or La Habana that PAIN (with capitalized letters) reaches its climax. It is in the heart of the artist where everything has arrived to an end, knowing that as he types the last words of this book, he leaves the reader with the terrible news that all will disappear, or that we will never be able to visualize those sites again.-- Carlos Wotzkow, Co-author of "Cuba: Cubriendo y Descubriendo." Read more