The prestigious American literary magazine editorial committee selected the short story by the writer Esteban Escalona, "A Driver's License," to be published in its fall 2021 edition. American Literary Review (LALR) is one of the oldest literary magazines in the United States, which, since 1972, publishes the latest in literary creation and studies in the field of Hispanic and Portuguese literature in collaboration with professors from universities in Texas, California, New York, Virginia and Washington.
The story published corresponds to the first story that Escalona wrote in New York (January 2020) and therefore maintained many of the characteristics of his first book of short stories, "Ciudad Capital" published in Santiago de Chile, by Editorial Chancacazo. Still, it already begins to show some characteristics that the writer started to experience in New York and that he has deepened in his stories that are periodically published in the North American magazine "Viceversa-Magazine" and in many of his most recent stories.
"A Driver's License" is the story of Carlos, a Hispanic immigrant who lives in Queens. Carlos does not speak English, which brings him a series of consequences along with his family customs from which he does not want to detach himself despite the damage they cause him. In this work, Escalona does not distance himself from one of the characteristics that made him recognize a high value by specialized critics in Chile, and that is to tell stories of marginal characters and those who have no voice. You can read the story at the following link of the magazine: https://www.lalrp.net/articles/abstract/10.26824/lalr.222/
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