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“Today the writer has to be on the ground, because it is on the ground where he is needed most.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

“If this were a story, we could affirm that it was a stereotype of an old lady, within a space that had lost its daily life around the corner.”

José Baroja libro Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“Unfortunately for him, it is not possible to die twice.”

José Baroja libro No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

““I love you”, “I love you”, “I love you”, they said it for every moment in which they swore eternity and something more, to the point that it was annoying for those of us who were close, because, in reality, who loves each other so much? nowadays.”

José Baroja libro El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“This is how, without the consent of the two lovers, of its two main characters, of the only ones who were originally worth anything in this short story, the narrator decided to incorporate two more words into the plot: “doubt” and “uncertainty.””

José Baroja libro El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“She, perhaps, with a consciousness that many of us in adulthood lack or simply lost, would associate that so much water falling on our fat and heavy heads was due to the crying of some poet who was walking by.”

José Baroja libro Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“…the literary feeds on that fragility of life.”

José Baroja libro El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“Soon the crashes, the blackouts, the hypothermias, the demands for public lighting and a lot of misdeeds will hide the disappearances, the plots, the deaths, the domestic violence, the corruptions and a long etcetera…”

José Baroja libro Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“She kept saying “I love you,” every time they finished, every time he lost himself inside her, every time they reached that amazing ecstasy of two bodies that already know each other; But, deep down, she, little by little, had begun to doubt that “eternal love,” that verb so easy to conjugate.”

José Baroja libro El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“He remained frozen for a few minutes, while urine fell from a limb dwarfed by the fear caused by the sensation of near death.”

José Baroja libro El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“That work pride, that ridiculous work pride has put an end to his illusions, with those few illusions that he still had since at school they promised him a magnificent future just for entering university.”

José Baroja libro No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“No, they never expected or sensed the wishes of that omniscient narrator who, at times, wondered, accompanied by a glass of cabernet, about how his story should be constructed, how this story should develop.”

José Baroja libro El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“O medo reaparece todos os dias, enquanto toma banho, enquanto assiste televisão, mesmo quando apenas toma café.”

José Baroja libro No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“Em breve os acidentes, os apagões, as hipotermias, as exigências de iluminação pública e muitos delitos esconderão os desaparecimentos, as conspirações, as mortes, a violência doméstica, as corrupções e um longo etc.”

José Baroja libro Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“Depois daquele “amém”, Evaristo descobriu as faces de aprovação e medo de seu público, então sabia que já as tinha em mãos.”

José Baroja libro No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“… Ele percebe os dois muito mais “caninos” do que antes, digamos, com mais coração, como se um pouco do seu jeito de ser tivesse passado para eles; e eles já eram bons humanos.”

José Baroja libro El lado oscuro de la sombra y otros ladridos

“Juan e Perro no fundo sabem que esses ruídos persistirão enquanto houver injustiça nesta terra investida por aquele pequeno deus dominical que alguns têm.”

José Baroja libro El lado oscuro de la sombra y otros ladridos

“Promover a leitura é uma responsabilidade moral dos escritores.”

José Baroja (1983) Escritor chileno

“Acho que a literatura deveria sacudir, e não se submeter ao governo da época.”

José Baroja (1983) Escritor chileno