«The chronicle is the form of real story where prose weighs more: where writing weighs more.» Martín Caparrós (Argentinian writer) «Haiti. La Isla de la Fantasia (Haiti. The island of fantasy)» and «Lima. Perfume del Fin (Lima. Perfume of the end)», published in 1991 and 1992 respectively, are two of the chronicles written by CaparrosSigue leyendo «The journalistic ability to show reality»
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The difficulty of expressing the disease
In Anthropology of Pain, David Le Breton defines the sensation of pain, in the first place, as an intimate and personal fact that escapes to any extent, to any attempt to isolate or describe it, to any desire to inform another about its intensity and its nature. For the French anthropologist pain is «a failureSigue leyendo «The difficulty of expressing the disease»
The power of the city over the individual and its influence on novels
Preterito Perfecto (Preterite perfect), the novel by writer Hugo Foguet, states that «The city is the sacred space where the fate of the characters is fulfilled». The author explains in an interview: «As for the city as a recurring factor, the habitat of modern man is the city, and the counterpoint between present and past,Sigue leyendo «The power of the city over the individual and its influence on novels»
The simulation of living
The ideology of consumption, the mediatization of everyday life and the advertising culture of “beauty and happiness” of the youth are the starting point of La Prueba (The Test) of César Aira. This short novel, published in 1992, is about Marcia, a virgin, shy and depressed teenager, who one day is questioned in the streetSigue leyendo «The simulation of living»
The feeling of the migrant
Jesús Urzagasti was born in 1941 in a small town located south of the Bolivian Grand Chaco. His life was marked by a series of displacements that had as goal to access to education. He lived in Yacuiba, Tarija, Salta until arriving, during the sixties, to the city of La Paz. At the headquarters ofSigue leyendo «The feeling of the migrant»
The loneliness of the dying
«The loneliness of the dying» of Norbert Elías, the only child of a Jewish marriage who fails to escape the machines of Nazi Germany. Elías abandons an ascending career of sociologist to devote himself to professional boxing. Then he will try other solutions. He will train as a therapist, study medicine and philosophy and afterSigue leyendo «The loneliness of the dying»
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