MiguelG

@MiguelG, miembro de 23 de agosto de 2023

Chileno. De Talca.
Estudiante de Pedagogía en Castellano.

“…over time he would realize that the higher he was, the less danger he was in and the more he controlled the ever-ready mass.”

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

“The closest thing to purgatory is a government agency, only the first does not exist and the second is very real.”

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José Baroja libro Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

““Godín”, is said in Mexico of the office worker from nine to eighteen hours or of any other employee to whom his immediate boss says, during his first day of work and with all the naturalness in the world: “Welcome. From today, your body and soul belong to us.”

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“Anita complained pitifully, because just because they don't listen to you because of your “small” voice, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt you.”

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“Before becoming godín, Jaime worked for a miserable 79 mexican pesos an hour as a subject professor in one of the many universities in Guadalajara; very little for any future aspirations and very little for any present aspirations.”

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“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…”

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“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.”

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“The fear reappears every day, while showering, while watching television, even when just drinking coffee.”

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“Then, Evaristo felt in his hands the exercise of the power that Foucault spoke so much about, and he felt it like someone who discovers fear in his fellow men.”

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“After that “amen,” Evaristo discovered the faces of approval and fear of his audience, so he knew that he already had them in his hands.”

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“I'll go out on a limb and say that that glow arose from his past.”

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

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

“In my opinion, and beyond the different definitions about this literary genre or the absurd academic discrepancies about its constitution or taxonomy, the story is above all an experiential art.”

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José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Fuente: Grupo Ígneo. Interview. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/jose-baroja-el-cuento-es-un-trago-breve/

“Surrendering to state or private financing is bullshit.”

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José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Fuente: Revista Momento ahora o nunca, n°139 (2019)

“Without underestimating the virtues of technical, specialized and necessary education, we cannot accept an education that eliminates the other dimension of human knowledge, that which motivates us to be more cultured, more human, deeper, more emotional.”

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José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Fuente: Perú Informa. Interview. https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/

“Con gloriosas excepciones, me parece que la literatura hispanoamericana actual tiene problemas para desligarse de esa gran historia que constituyó el Boom Latinoamericano.”

José Baroja (1983) Escritor y editor chileno

Fuente: Entrevista a José Baroja. Por Ismael Lorenzo. Creatividad Internacional. https://www.creatividadinternacional.com/group/creatividadliteraria/forum/topics/entrevista-a-jose-baroja

“Obviamente cada lectura te cambia, y no solo hablo de libros.”

José Baroja (1983) Escritor y editor chileno

Fuente: Entrevista a José Baroja. Por Miguel Esteban Torreblanca. Fondo de Cultura Económica.
https://www.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/Noticia/706

“Pienso que ningún libro está realmente terminado.”

José Baroja (1983) Escritor y editor chileno

Fuente: Entrevista a José Baroja. Por Miguel Esteban Torreblanca. Fondo de Cultura Económica.
https://www.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/Noticia/706

“La literatura se debe a sus lectores y, en tal sentido, no podemos perder la oportunidad de difundir nuestras obras a través de los medios disponibles; más allá de si nos sentimos cómodos con estos.”

José Baroja (1983) Escritor y editor chileno

Fuente: Entrevista a José Baroja. Por Ismael Lorenzo. Creatividad Internacional. https://www.creatividadinternacional.com/group/creatividadliteraria/forum/topics/entrevista-a-jose-baroja

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Stephen King (1947) escritor, novelista, columnista, productor cinematográfico y director estadounidense