In a city in Central Mexico, an aging wanderer comes to rest. As he walks the streets, drinks in the cafes, and stares at the bare walls of his hotel room, he dreams of his past—of pirates in the Sulu Sea, of South American jungles, dust storms in Africa, the back alleys of Singapore, whorehouses in Cebu, the Cages of Bombay, a fishing boat in the South Seas—and the women: women savage and gentle, women loved and lost. All of them named Lola…. ...
In a city in Central Mexico, an aging wanderer comes to rest. As he walks the streets, drinks in the cafes, and stares at the bare walls of his hotel room, he dreams of his past—of pirates in the Sulu Sea, of South American jungles, dust storms in Africa, the back alleys of Singapore, whorehouses in Cebu, the Cages of Bombay, a fishing boat in the South Seas—and the women: women savage and gentle, women loved and lost. All of them named Lola….
Autobiography of a Wanderer is the second novel in Stuefloten’s Lola Trilogy, which began with Orifice and concludes with Hag (also available as e-books). Like the others, it is an hallucinatory voyage into a man's adventurous past—and into an artist’s love for the strangely erotic woman who is his muse.
I have spent most of my life wandering around the world writing my rather esoteric novels and stories. I have been a magician's assistant in East Africa, a fisherman in the south seas, a smuggler in India. I have ridden motorcycles up the center of Australia and from California to Panama, gone down the Amazon from Peru to the Atlantic, taken a canoe along jungle rivers between Mexico and Guatemala--sleeping in Mayan ruins and Indian villages--and lived with Moro pirates in the Sulu Sea, plus much more. I am married to the Mexican poet Jacqueline Lizarraga de Stuefloten, and we now spend most of our time in a small town in southern California. My stories and novels are, I believe, as adventurous and strange as my life. The Washington Post Book World, in its review of "Mexico Trilogy," compared my work to that of Garcia Marquez, Robbe-Grillet, and Duras. I have been writing what can loosely be called Magical Realism, Surrealism, or Expressionism, since I was a child.
Four of my novels have been published by FC2/Florida State University--"Maya" in 1992, "The Ethiopian Exhibition" in 1994, "Mexico Trilogy" in 1996, and "The Wilderness" in 2000. My short stories have appeared in a variety of small magazines, including Black Ice, Santa Monica Review, and three anthologies from FC2 ( "Avant Pop", 1993, "Degenerate Prose", 1995, and "In the Slipstream: An FC2 Reader" in 1999). I have begun exploring the world of self-publishing and e-books, with some pleasure: I can now design, create, explore how books can look in our digital age.
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