Ricardo Piglia just published a novel set in a village. To make matters worse, the story takes place in 1972, when people were more people. Piglia account in the 70, along with a writing group friends - including my dear just remember Saer-proposed written from and about the city. Any early backlash of magical realism and the post-boom with its countless towns and villages? I do not know.
I have not read all of Saer, but the little I read did not fully develop in a city. Piglia yes I read everything and I can say as much: his stories are more developed than in cities, suburbs. Renzi do not travel to a village in the province of Entre Rios to get his uncle? Junior Not always the worst of the worst of the suburban city dweller? Or better yet when they are in cities, the characters are pulling stories of the Pampas, an island in the River Tigre. The city crossed by the rural, which comes from outside the recesses. In "The Absent City" the city is absent, despite the redundancy.
Piglia Now position your story straight in a village.
could say that there is a neo literature - rural budding were it not that I do not think you can do an exact division between rural and urban.
I do not believe in literature urban, much less whether it is the city of Caracas. It is true: traffic, anonymity, violence, the crowd. But also true that many have to go to fetch water to bathe with Perolitos that in parts of Caracas abounds Santeria and mythology, which goes out, it rains and the world ends, that the buses do not arrive on time, the meter looks like a truck transporting cattle, which some women are known the life of everyone in your street, etc. Ie that the great loneliness and concerns of the city there are some concerns that adding them to survive with strong rural reminiscences. A multiple voices and ultra contemporary urban must be added the ancient mythology and ancient beliefs. The artist locked in his mind and apartamental recess, we must add the concierge and small-town gossip.
is true: advertising, pop culture, contemporary music, communication technologies. But: perhaps in rural areas can not access the same if one is committed? What are the satellites, then? Does the phone? Does the Internet?
If anything there was a revival of rural issues in the literature, it is always a rurality quotes. Because neither the rural is rural or urban is urban. Binary categories were abolished ages ago time.
Some writers like to make the city a literary character who pulls the levers of history, organized by the passions of the characters. But many writers prefer to blur nomadic space, placing their stories in imaginary places or distant. What henceforth call "zero locus."
When I came to live in this world order in this field, this periphery, I thought I would never read my stories because who cares to read about ghost towns of eastern Venezuela, on one side. Or who will seem interesting stories written from this point on nothing, on the other. I was surprised to read that Amos Oz wondered the same thing. Well, almost the same, who would want to read about the daily Jerusalem, as people, so nothing, in which he lived. Oz was said could not be a writer because they lived in the center of the world: Paris, London, New York. Bridging the gap, I told myself that I could not be a writer if he lived in Caracas (at most, Margarita or Merida) And once emigrated, Madrid or Paris. Oz told me that the place where one finds is the center of the world. Maturin is the center of my world in Venezuela. Also Cumana and vicinity. There "I am"-quotation marks, of course, "My World Israel has its center in some small towns South, two streets of Tel - Aviv and the field. From here I quote.
I have not read all of Saer, but the little I read did not fully develop in a city. Piglia yes I read everything and I can say as much: his stories are more developed than in cities, suburbs. Renzi do not travel to a village in the province of Entre Rios to get his uncle? Junior Not always the worst of the worst of the suburban city dweller? Or better yet when they are in cities, the characters are pulling stories of the Pampas, an island in the River Tigre. The city crossed by the rural, which comes from outside the recesses. In "The Absent City" the city is absent, despite the redundancy.
Piglia Now position your story straight in a village.
could say that there is a neo literature - rural budding were it not that I do not think you can do an exact division between rural and urban.
I do not believe in literature urban, much less whether it is the city of Caracas. It is true: traffic, anonymity, violence, the crowd. But also true that many have to go to fetch water to bathe with Perolitos that in parts of Caracas abounds Santeria and mythology, which goes out, it rains and the world ends, that the buses do not arrive on time, the meter looks like a truck transporting cattle, which some women are known the life of everyone in your street, etc. Ie that the great loneliness and concerns of the city there are some concerns that adding them to survive with strong rural reminiscences. A multiple voices and ultra contemporary urban must be added the ancient mythology and ancient beliefs. The artist locked in his mind and apartamental recess, we must add the concierge and small-town gossip.
is true: advertising, pop culture, contemporary music, communication technologies. But: perhaps in rural areas can not access the same if one is committed? What are the satellites, then? Does the phone? Does the Internet?
If anything there was a revival of rural issues in the literature, it is always a rurality quotes. Because neither the rural is rural or urban is urban. Binary categories were abolished ages ago time.
Some writers like to make the city a literary character who pulls the levers of history, organized by the passions of the characters. But many writers prefer to blur nomadic space, placing their stories in imaginary places or distant. What henceforth call "zero locus."
When I came to live in this world order in this field, this periphery, I thought I would never read my stories because who cares to read about ghost towns of eastern Venezuela, on one side. Or who will seem interesting stories written from this point on nothing, on the other. I was surprised to read that Amos Oz wondered the same thing. Well, almost the same, who would want to read about the daily Jerusalem, as people, so nothing, in which he lived. Oz was said could not be a writer because they lived in the center of the world: Paris, London, New York. Bridging the gap, I told myself that I could not be a writer if he lived in Caracas (at most, Margarita or Merida) And once emigrated, Madrid or Paris. Oz told me that the place where one finds is the center of the world. Maturin is the center of my world in Venezuela. Also Cumana and vicinity. There "I am"-quotation marks, of course, "My World Israel has its center in some small towns South, two streets of Tel - Aviv and the field. From here I quote.
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