Osvaldo Soriano – Triste, Solitario y Final

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The story begins when Stan Laurel (the comic actor from the famous series Gordo y el Flaco) turns to detective Philip Marlowe (the character created by writer Raymond Chandler), also in the twilight of his splendor, to find out why no one calls him to work anymore. Parodying the well-known and schematic American cinema, the narration originates events in which Soriano himself appears as a character to become Marlowe’s accomplice and thus confront the most detestable figures. “I had an obsession with Laurel and Hardy since my childhood. And since I discovered Chandler I was fascinated with Philip Marlowe. But it took a cat to give me the idea for the novel: the only one capable of investigating the story of Fatso and Skinny was a professional detective like Marlowe. I got into it as a character to amuse myself: I was thinking of getting out of it, but when I gave it to my friends to read and saw that it worked, I put it off for later, and one day I finished it. I was thirty years old, it was 1973”.