"Saúl Yurkievich is a virtuoso of words. Like a magnificent pianist, he can go from the
softest to the strongest on the splendid keyboard of the Spanish language."
Carlos Fuentes
Reading Yurkievich is like entering a Klein bottle where form is function, function
form, where the outside leads to the inside.
Background Noise is dazzling, mysterious, alchemical. No less miraculous is that Cola
Franzen has been able to render this fabulous text, full of a thousand pitfalls, in such an extraordinarily lucent and poetic fashion.
Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno