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Guillermo Garcia-Fernandez (Writer)

Guillermo Garcia-Fernandez is a Mexican writer of poetry, novels, novellas, essays and hip-hop songs. He is well-known for his harsh political views and the use of new utopias as well as the poems without rhyme. Poetic prose, stream of consciousness and the use of inner capital letters. He can be compared to William Morris as he was also a designer, architect, tailor, utopian, painter, translator and theorist.

Early life.' Guillermo Garcia-Fernandez was born in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico in 1989. he lived in the Veracruz state town of Las Vigas (Beam-bridge town). he also had a brother Isaac Garcia-Fernandez, a famous oil painter and school teacher. He was raised in a middle class family, his father was a truck driver so Guillermo Garcia-Fernandez was able to explore many cities of Mexico. His mother was devouted to her children as much as the Catholic church, a feature often seen in the novels dealing with religious issues against modern manners. His mother was highly despised by his father's family, so it helped Guillermo would hate them too, so Guillermo and his family lived with his mother's parents, just across the street. Guillermo was also a neighbor of Elvira Becerra, a cousin of the family of the founding fathers of his town. His mother’s aunt, Elena was the house holder of Elvira's house, so Guillermo was very close to the former aristocratic people, has-been celebrities. Some of these wealthy people were famous Engineer and architects, especially in projects like Satelite Towers in Mexico City. Guillermo was willing to become a builder as he loved Lego toys, but these adults told him architecture was a discouraging career to choose when in college. From this people he also learned card games such as poker, bridge, chess, checkers and domino (these people claimed to play cards in Las Vegas and Montecarlo when young and it impressed Guillermo to learn more), since his parents forbade him any sort of videogames which could divert him from school discipline. His parents, unlike the average ones, were fond of Rock music instead of local tunes, another reason for Guillermo to be focused on English. He liked El Tri as well as many other rock bands like Simple Minds in English and Spanish. Guillermo would later confess that English music is what actually helped him. If his parents had heard another kind of music, his success would be null. He said people who like vulgar music are unable to do any progress in their lives because the most powerful nations are those ones who listen English songs.

Education and career Guillermo Garcia-Fernandez started kindergarten in 1993, the same year the film Jurassic Park was released. Both events will change his life since then as Dinosaurs became an important part as well as learning. Since his early childhood, Guillermo was diagnosed as a boy genius, he learned to read, write and multiply when he was six years old, a matter of often bully against him. His parents realized and helped him thru Lego toys and private schooling. Private kindergarten introduced him the studies of English as well as Spanish. The excessive contact of Mexico with American culture also influenced his interest in English films, fashion, tv and words. Besides, as Guillermo was growing in his grandparent's house, his parents started building their own homestead across the street. That influenced his interest in architecture and civil engineering.

Elementary School was also mixed with the 1997 film The Lost World and Dinosaur (2000), Guillermo liked Dinosaurs even more. During Junior High school, 2001-2004, he started to draw and design models of buildings as play sets in his own house which later will become the city of New RouseLand, a post-modern utopia. The frolics he played with his brother Isaac and these toys will determine his future writing. In 2003 they were given their first desk-computer in order to type school homework as much as to improve the typewriting subjects. Guillermo lived the last Secondary school generation who used a mechanical, old-fashioned typewriter. Guillermo never learned to type beyond one finger only. Guillermo, given his high IQ skills and this low weight often refused to practice sports and even the Physical Education subject. The new computer soon was full with videogames, especially Age of Empires and Zoo Tycoon, which later will help in the creative process and the studies of History. In 2003 he was shown the literary works of Spanish and universal authors. He knew the works of Poe, Cervantes, Borges and Horacio Quiroga. Quiroga's Tales of Love, Madness and Dead was the first book he completely read. The early 2000s fashion for J.K. Rowling books and films also boosted Guillermo to keep on reading bigger books in a lesser ammount of time. In 2004 Guillermo attended an afternoon High School. It obviously changed his early-bird routine of the previous school years. So during the morning he started walking with his mother, up to six miles per day. Guillermo also practiced carpentry, as his father has this hobbie when in home. Guillermo tried to work out in order to gain weight and get better PE notes, he became stronger and agile, but he never showed a fit body to impress girls, a theme very common in his teen age years. The acne and glasses highly affected his morale to dare and date girls, as they preferred bulkier boys with a part-time job salary and cars. In highschool Guillermo started some vignettes and pastiches of the life in RouseLand, compared to the descriptions of videogames and literary works he found in courses. He faced some poems, short stories and novel fragments in Spanish and Literature subjects so he started to write his own. In 2006 he decided the true stories of RouseLand should be recorded and he was the only one who knew them besides his brother. So Guillermo started his first novel "New RouseLand and thw world-end chronicles". He also wrote and translated songs and poems, for this English studies have not ceased and he was the only one with high degrees of English. So his parents thought he should keep the English passion thru a professional formation. He had chosen the medical area in high school as he was good at chemistry, but he never liked the fact of helping people. His mother wanted him to become a physician as she was not allowed when young.

In 2007 he was number thirteen in University of Veracruz admission chart in the English area. From 2007 to 2010 he kept on writing about RouseLand, some hip-hop songs also appeared as Guillermo was told about some rappers as Nach who were singing in Spanish in a more positive way, beyond coarse language and exaggerated outfits. So Guillermo tried to write his own versions of romantic rap as well as cutting some empty songs to build samples for the lyrics he performed. He sang rap with some of his former high school peers. These few songs happened to be ninety, divided in five ‘discs’ by 2011. From then on, Guillermo abandoned Rap as a practice, but rap never left his ears and writings. In 2010, thanks to his uncommon interest in English, even in the English area, he managed to be given a scholarship to study abroad during one semester. He chose to study in DePauw University, a town college in Indiana, especially famous for its Music department. Guillermo had been always immersed in the American culture and it was his time to act. This journey helped him to improve his communications skills, highly hindered because he was very shy and nervous towards women, another reason for him to hide away his poems and feeling and keep them secret and on paper. Guillermo also learned several facts, subtle or not, about the differences of the two countries, people and cultures, something very present in the rest of his tales dealing with racism, politics and class inequality. He studied Sociology, English literature and themes related. Shortly before his journey to America, Guillermo finished the first book of RouseLand. He started to write subjective essays, influenced by Montaigne, another author he knew during college as well as Faulkner. In America, Guillermo decided to keep on writing a second book or novel about RouseLand, since he realized the first part did not include several important features, worthy of being explained further. In DPU Guillermo was forced to write more in English and with a theme freedom, so he wrote even more very personal essays to be added to the first series of non-fiction. Guillermo returned to the University of Veracruz in 2011 and chose the Literature area for the last two years in college. He insisted the Literature area was better than Teaching or Translation as it was more demanding and closer to the true studies of English texts and culture. This back-to-normal-routine influenced some of the viewpoints he found in America and before departure. These previous adventures which could not be located in the canon of RouseLand #2 novel were rejoined in the first collection of short stories “Gossip got Greater”, sometimes semi biographic, dreams or just accusing the lifestyles of people around him. The last college year (he signed for a five-year college area) he was more disciplined to work, write, study and read in English, as Guillermo was told that standard-European school force their students to read up to fifty books per day, especially considering that Mexico consumes one or two books per year. In 2012 he retook Shakespeare and Cervantes as complete subjects. Also he was forced to start his dissertation in order to graduate. He recalled he met Ray Bradbury in Secondary school and reread most of his tales, since Guillermo was doing labor practices in the main library of the University of Veracruz and there he found several resources to satisfy his hunger of information and knowledge. Finally he was able to mix his love for literature and Dinosaurs in his dissertation about religious symbols and Dinosaurs. He read Jurassic park books too. Since 2013 he worked on and off especially in English and Literature courses in private schools, often underpaid. But he continued his writings on the novels of RouseLand, poems and tales. He printed and bound his books in order to sell them, scattered among his friends. During college he tried to talk with students in charge of the school journals, but his participation and texts were always rejected without any explanations. He did not cease buying used books to nurture his reading addiction. He performed several Shakespeare plays with the Lego mini figures (in order to avoid confusion of characters) according to their own characters. In 2016 he traveled to Cancun to take advantage of his English skills. He worked as a travel agent to be in touch with English speakers as he did in America before. There he realized the new era of feminism and wrote “Amphisbaena” a novel about the women regime in a close future, a harsh social criticism, uncensored as it was published under a feminine author name. From 2017 to 2022 he wrote a third and fourth volume of RouseLand utopic novels. Nine tales’ collections of the fictional towns he lived were placed in the same post-apocalyptic future of 2040s. He often wrote some poems out of short sentences he pasted together as Cortázar ot T.S. Elliot did. In 2020, after the wedding of a close friend, Guillermo started what he called “the most fictitious tale I ever thought of”. ‘The Wed’ is a Novella about him married to a women perfect for him, dealing with child raising and loving the significant one as well as how a modern wed party could be done if Guillermo would ever happen to marry a girl. The next year this dream was nearly happened.

Love affairs. Love affairs were very difficult for Guillermo, since he was very shy and his physical appearance undermined his egotistic personality of everyday. Since his early days Guillermo liked girls. In 1993 he met Wadi Truehill a kindergarten girls of his own age. They played together a lot, more than other classmates. They both were protective to one another, their professors reminded. Each other’s mothers did not consider it was a bad friendship. It highly defined his vies as much as the visible Oedipical fixation of pre-school times. In 1995 Kindergarten ended. Elementary level started, but Wadi did not follow Guillermo. Alone and misunderstood for his gifted intelligence, he was often offended by girls questioning his appearance and vocabulary. Hate for outdoor activities and sport made him a reserved and lonely kid as his brother, younger, was not able to share school with him. That year Guillermo and his brother Isaac met Luz, the youngest cousin of the founder fathers’ family, a slightly older girl of their fallen aristocratic neighbors. Wadi was the only girl and also living among very old relatives in Puebla (before the Puebla state capital cathedral). Luz often spent July and December school holidays in Las Vigas (Beam-bridge). She was an early and deeper love affair of both kids, at least to the age they were. Guillermo had several women as cousins and younger aunts, but generation gap as much as geographical distance made them indifferent to him when they paid a visit to the village family side. Luz, as the elder of the trio, reached teen age before them and soon separated from this town visits. After that, Guillermo kept the natural aversion of boys against girls, girls only playing with girls and boys only playing with boys. In school he was to be seated with a girl to share a double bench, separate by their backpacks to avoid ‘cooties’ on a parents and teachers’ reunion, their parents met L.V. family, another intellectual girl. They four became friends despite Guillermo. The new couple said Guillermo, given his high IQ was worthy of marrying LV, during a party were they rejoined. Guillermo always hated that friendships, since his paternal grandfather, many years ago told to Guillermo’s mother he wanted her to marry one of his sons. Years later, his prophecy became real. Afraid of that, Guillermo stood emotionally away from L.V. despite they shared Elementary and Junior High school on their home town. In 1999 Guillermo met the daughter of a hairdresser woman, Jessica Handirg. Her father was a teacher in the junior high he would attend later, leading him to be hated by the old-school professor, secretly opposed to Guillermo as a friend to Jessica. She was two years older and they scarcely met after school in her mother’s workshop. They lived far away despite the same town. Nothing beyond happened. Jessica was not interested in a childish boy and as she became a teenager and finished school, she and her family aimed for a city high school. They never met again. The then-great year gap of them made Guillermo ask R.M., another girl of his own classroom who shared some interest, to become lovers, but she refused. She said she loved a close friend of him. Before that, he had never considered love. It marked his life for worse. From then on other girls approached Guillermo but they never had common activities besides school. Girl reach maturity before men do. Guillermo considered girls who liked him were nasty, also girls Guillermo liked though he was disgusting and bizarre. This only directed him more towards books, games and toys. He was able to look at girls but not to express their feelings, sue of future denials and more rejections. Sexual education in school only helped to frustrate his projects, as girls preferred more virile boys and his body was under-sized and under weighted. Isaac, his younger brother, was born in a Judaic hospital and was ritually ‘cut’ since his first day, unlike Guillermo, another fact to obliterate and be ashamed of his looking. In 2004, in High school and college, he met several new girls, but he was rejected every time, so most of his lovely thoughts never expressed dwelled in paper, untyped for several years, until 2013. That year he met Miss Ivarenoszy to start a nine-week distance relationship. They only met less than ten times in person and thru the phone. That girl later chose another lover. She was a student in a school he taught, but unrelated. She graduate and he lost her track. Guillermo realized marriages by money interest are still current in modern cities as in old-fashioned villages In 2021, at age 32, Guillermo met Rovira of Ozark and DeRogues, a woman born just seven months before him, in his own town. They talked on the phone and personally for some time. Tired of waiting, he proposed to her, as they shared an academic interest, social class and background. Previous failures on her own life made her refuse his offerings and they splitted. Guillermo still bore several issues about virginity and religious conservative rules as puritanism and chastity which affected most of his relationships. From then on, he grew bitter and sure that women only look for financial safety for their offspring rather than love. He found some of his professors chose a single life to be dedicated to their job as well as some of his favorite authors.

Religious and political views. Religious items were also very hard for him to accept and even worse, to renounce. Guillermo was rather Puritan and demanding, with a hard discipline on school and daily routine. His mother was a devote Catholic, often helping the town church during any kind of events. His grandparents, since Mexican Revolution, were Conservatives as much as Catholics. Guillermo often encourages the Imperialism and nobility, as much as Capitalism and mainstream ways of life. As a university student he faced several viewpoints of new religions, new fashions, as well as the coming-to-an-age process, but he remained single, Puritan and politically conservative rather than politically correct. Despite conservative, Guillermo was fond of Matriarchy. He was raised by several women among his family, despite they were raised my manly-ruled families of the 20th century under-classed Mexico. These women were against feminism as they knew it was not really aiming towards what feminism meant. These women lived the women rights movements and suffrage freedom but never supported or refused them. His mother was a frustrated nurse as he was not allowed to study given her gender and lower class. Scarce medical care in Mexico led her to rely on curative plants, as infusions and other potions, so Guillermo was fond of the powerful plants to cure; despite he considered natural drugs are evil too. Given his mother’s German ancestry and his father French blood he was considered racist, but Guillermo admired Western and American culture as his living in Mexico is a reflect of the effects of the obnoxious influence USA has had upon its closest neighbor. Guillermo praised the American hegemony above all the nations and said the rest of the nations are willing to become American-like too as their maximum status.

Other arts.

Film Guillermo was also fond of Cinema. The first film he saw was Jurassic Park (1993) and all of its sequels and films related like Kong or Godzilla. His mother loved Stallone or Gibson films of actions, so he started an interest in American famous films and celebrities. His grandparents often watched national, patriotic films in black and white and musicals, but Guillermo hated them, he considered they were stereotypical, racist and historically inaccurate. In University of Veracruz, he improved his listening skills, the weakest part according to him, by watching dubbed films in Caafi, a self-access center, so he was able to reprise films he had watched in past and learn more from them. In America he kept this love for films and watched every video he reached. He bought some dvds and he always watched them in English and with English subtitles in order to imitate accents, vocabulary and tunes. The HDTV process introduced him to new public tv channels specially the UNAM one, exhibiting many old American films, dubbed to increase his attention of its culture and listening. He had a special interest in films and literature, films and architecture or literature and architecture. His novella "The Kisstarian School" deals with a student of cinema and art, in the same universe and time of RouseLand. Guillermo loved films about utopias, science fiction, documentary, historical or war, often reflected on his writings vocabulary.

Design. Guillermo played with clay and Legos to develop his creativity as he was a gifted child and these were some of the few ways his parents could deal with it. He and his brother built a model city of toys and wood scraps (his father was carpenter), like in the film Beetlejuice (1988) in order to play with it. Despite several transplants of its location, he kept on building this city, embellished every year with more toys and other decorative items like clay figures and sea shells. The Mansion of the Forts Family is a house completely built of Lego bricks as described in the RouseLand novels. He carved wood and candles, painted bricks on small building and used several other art techniques and materials along this utopia.

Influenced by war videogames, Guillermo built full-sized crossbows, slingshots, arrows, swords, pistols and rifles as well as small models of cannons, catapults, ballistas and boats. The American Civil War guided him to hand sew kepis and forage caps, haversacks, Knapsacks, baldrics and scabbards. His mother’s mother would sew some coats and jacket to dress likewise. He read a lot of history in order to understand more about weaponry and sciences.

Frustrated desires to become an architect turned Guillermo to remain on paper most of his ideas, not only texts. He drew blueprints of houses he saw and wanted to build and also some buildings he saw during his dreams or his trips to other cities. He drew the coats of arms of the knights and nations of his novels of RouseLand, fictional schools and trademarks in other to build his own mythology. The portraits of his books were created on his own and he always refused to use somebody else’s work to illustrate his texts. He could cut and bind the sheets of his own books to make them look as he wished. In RouseLand he even built some bookshelves and tables to install his models upon them. He practiced carpentry as a hobby and as a honorary job on and off.

Math. Guillermo learned to multiply at five of six years old. Since them, he developed a bizarre fixation on natural numbers, present in floor tiles and Lego toys knobs. Until high school he reprised this interest and wrote some of these almost-forbidden laws he discovered. Then he named it the Squared Absolute Values. He tried to invent other equations besides algebra, integration and infinite calculus. He believed these theories were like alchemy and his theorems were like chemistry. He wanted to overshadow algebra with a series of numbers, apparently nobody had discovered or worried to consider. He wrote some essays, graphics and numbers lists to explain and predict series of numbers… like astrology, to forecast love, lottery, good and bad days. From these theorems and some probability experiments, he started to sketch essays of a scientific-divination method the called the Peri-Crypto-Scopio-Logia or Nifel (naking inner-frame, evil lore). He started to believe the universe is full of coincidences and if we are able to pay attention to them we may be ready for some things the gods or destiny may try to tell us.

Dance and theater. Guillermo never liked dancing since the fashion styles were not according to his conservative and religious education. When he asked a girl to dance, refusal was obvious and so grew his hatred for dancing. National folklore dancing was racist or stereotypical and depicting worldwide a nation unable to progress in the 21st century. For him, Tango was the most elegant of dances. Electronic music was good for training and working out but too tiring to be danced. Modern music and lyrics was depravation for the sacred arts of music and dance.

Guillermo never wrote theater. His texts are subjective and reported speech. For him there is no conversation but his view point. He liked theater and films and was fond of it. He imagined to build screenplays of his tales, but he could not set real dialogues among his characters. He hated modern, experimental theater which vulgarized the fine theater of Shakespeare and Moliere. For him theater was to teach people, like during dark ages, not to be insulted like it was nowadays with modern and coarse languages and scenes.

Bibliogaphy:

Novels: New RouseLand (2009) New RouseLand II (2014) New RouseLand 2045 (2018) New RouseLand 4 (2022) Kisstar School (2019) Novella: Silent Sermon (2014) Amphisbaena: Mr. & Mss. Ipping (2018) Names and Rumors (2019) Brotherhood of Fear (2020) The Wed (2020)

Essay: Essays (2013) Essays part II Aphorisms Phonetic Dictionary of my hard-to-say names

Shorts-story collections: Gossip got bigger (2012) Reunion (2012) Holton Tales (2014) Andessination (2015) Current fate (2016) No time tales (2017) Nobody knows where nor when (2017) Sorrows, Dreams and stash (2018) BlossomBurgh myths (2018) Civil War tales (2021)

Poetry: Poe-try (2013) Seclusion right (2014) Full rap songs (2015) Ended Poetry (2017) Bierce’s Devil Dictionary poems (2017) Ended Poetry (2021)

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