RETRATO DEL ARTISTA DECADENTE

""Retrato del artista decadente" is a fictional biography of Lorenzo Valle; child prodigy and failed teenage actor who was condemned to an adulthood without any success. Author Odette Maria Rojas Sosa illustrates how Valle simultaneously embodies fame, fortune, ephemerality, precocity, failure and decay. This work also pays tribute to humor and to television -- which acts as a nanny, friend, companion and witness to the most ordinary moments of our lives (and sometimes extraordinary). But, above all, it heralds telenovelas as an important beacon of Mexican culture -- because when reality does not seem like a viable option, there are always dreams."