Jolts by Fernando Sdrigotti

 “A return — this seems to be one of the things I’m expected to write about. And now that I return, now that I find myself here, I haven’t even left the airport and I’m already toying with the idea of writing a return, perhaps just to surrender.”

Nine stories. Nine ways of not being at home. Nine confrontations to the limits of fiction and memoir. Jolts is a playful and honest exploration of the joys and sorrows of lives lived in-between places. A collection that travels across time, space, and language, in order to deliver the gospel of the Latin American short story.

Sdrigotti rises to peak form with Jolts, following a series of cult publications – Shitstorm, Dysfunctional Males and Triptico.

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Jolts: an interview with Fernando Sdrigotti
– 3:AM

Top 10 Latin American Short Stories
– Guardian

Time/Immaterial
– Verso blog

Praise for Jolts

‘Sdrigotti makes a strong case for the short story, and especially the fragment, as a suitable form for representing the experience of living through crises.’
– Sabotage Reviews

‘The stories are set in a complete, lived-in reality and they bring to life the routine interactions and frustrations that make up the quotidian drudgery of existence. But they are not dreary. Rather, they are filled with details that make the universe alive.’
– The Quietus

'An acutely pertinent, wry portrayal of humanity and their treatment of incomers.'
— Never Imitate

‘If airports are liminal spaces, thresholds between segments of our lives, then so are memories in Sdrigotti’s writing, leaving the wanderer and the reader with the unsettling feeling of never being anywhere at once, necessarily remaining detached because you are never sure how long you will be staying there.’
— Ten Million Hardbacks

‘I don’t think I could have picked up something better than Jolts.’
— Loz Lit

‘An author who is a sharp observer and fearless explorer.’
— PANK Magazine

‘This is a book written with a propulsive sense of pace, a thrilling immediacy, and excellent comic timing. It is also a book that feels very, very much like now.’
— The Quietus, on Shitstorm

About the author

Fernando Sdrigotti was born in Rosario (Argentina) in 1977. Expelled by the economic crash of 2001, he lived in Dublin and Paris before settling in London in the early noughties. His fiction and critical writing has appeared widely online and in print, and has been translated into French, Italian, Turkish, Norwegian and Spanish. He is the founder of the online literary journal Minor Literature[s] and was a contributing editor at 3:AM Magazine and Numéro Cinq. Shitstorm, a novella, was published in 2018 by Open Pen. Dysfunctional Males, his first collection of short stories in English, was published in 2017 by LCG Media.

He teaches Spanish and Latin American literature at Birkbeck, University of London.

Paperback ISBN: 9781910312513

Ebook ISBN: 9781910312520

Publication date: April 2020

Formats: Paperback / eBook