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In 2025, as part of our Sol Oculto series, Wanton Sun will publish Imitations, the first English publication of Ramiro Sanchiz’s hallucinatory novel, Las imitaciones. Steeped in Bowiesque Martian mystique, it tells the story of Federico Stahl, a Uruguayan rockstar who died and either was resurrected by a supercomputer in Argentina or escaped into a designer-drug-fuelled multiverse. The novel weaves a mesmerising Stahlist mythology where Stahl incarnations guide initiates through parallel universes and simulations. Best of all, it mainly takes place in a post-apocalypse where the northern hemisphere is destroyed and the southern realm reigns supreme.
Stahl is a recurring character in Ramiro’s work. Like Moorcock with Jerry Cornelius, Stahl is a Uruguayan eternal champion who can never be defeated, only reworked and remodelled.
English translation by Andrés Vaccari—exclusive to Wanton Sun.
“Halfway between post-catastrophic uchrony and noir, Ramiro Sanchiz constructs in this novel a brilliant investigation into the mystery surrounding the death of Federico Stahl, cult musician, artist of a thousand false faces. A mystery that is, in reality, many mysteries: the mystery of artistic creation, the mystery of the pseudo-religious figure of rock stars, the mystery of those who – moved by forces no less strange – decide to investigate and follow the traces of the missing person. A novel that is a succession of riffs played out of time, a cerebral and mystical adventure where the echoes of the best tradition of contemporary science fiction can be felt: from Philip K. Dick to the most psychedelic Pynchon, passing through the wonderful novels of Marcelo Cohen.”
Juan Cárdenas, author of The Strata (2013) and The Devil of the Provinces (2017)
“A strange story, a narrative of the unusual, an almost sickly proliferation of Bolaño-style stories, but with the strangeness of a Mario Levrero or a Marcelo Cohen. A delight for nerds and conspiracy theorists. This book is a real joy. I had to wait a long time to read it and I close its pages with a smile on my lips.”
Maielis González, author of Of Flocks or Shepherds (2020)
“I don’t know of any other writer who has a similar project. On our continent, certainly not. In the world, I would dare to doubt it. Because the Stahl Project is not only a character that has different versions in all the novels and stories, but it implies that each time a novel or story is published in a new edition, it is no longer the same work.”
Flor Canosa, author of The Second Mother Tongue (2023)
Ramiro Sanchiz is a writer and translator born and based in Montevideo, Uruguay. He’s the author of 19 novels to the date, among them Krautrock, Un pianista de provincias (A small town pianist), La anomalía 17 (The seventeenth anomaly) and Indómita luz, plus numerous essays and works of theory-fiction.
