Este libro es el producto de la incursión que Walter Cassara, Mariano Dupont, Roberto Echavarren, Andi Nachón y Violeta Percia hicieron en la escritura que Ian Curtis produjo para Joy division con el propósito de efectuar una doble traducción: la de las letras al castellano sostenida simultáneamente por la traducción de la experiencia de la música a la escritura poética.
Ian Kevin Curtis was an English musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the post-punk band Joy Division.
Joy Division released its debut album, Unknown Pleasures, in 1979 and recorded its follow-up, Closer, in 1980.
Curtis, who suffered from epilepsy and depression, committed suicide on 18 May 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first North American tour, resulting in the band's dissolution and the subsequent formation of New Order. Curtis was known for his baritone voice, dance style, and songwriting filled with imagery of desolation, emptiness and alienation.
In 1995, Curtis's widow Deborah published Touching From A Distance: Ian Curtis And Joy Division, a biography of the singer. His life and death have been dramatised in the films 24-Hour Party People (2002) and Control (2007).