According to the Colombian publisher Animal Extinto, Tartarmudo is a unique, imaginative, and enigmatic work written by Sebastián Bejarano.
Through a series of stories of various kinds, the book addresses the theme of stuttering through writing. The author recreates mythical scenes, literary episodes, and personal memories, weaving them together with thorough research on the condition of stuttering, creating a work of great literary quality and inventive linguistic games. Reminiscent of George Perec’s classificatory exercises and the scientific-literary inventions of Juan Rodolfo Wilcock’s tales, the work of this young Colombian Hispanic writer calls for an attentive, demanding, and patient reader.
In Tartarmudo, every line is to be savored; there is an intelligent hidden meaning in each sentence, returning to us the forgotten significance of words and compelling us to pause—for in that pause, thought may emerge.
