this note-Planas Quique interview appeared in El Comercio of Lima
Sunday, after q was "present" in the presentation via Skype
from cell to Peru on Friday. Little by little, I guess, the bombing
Caicedo will decrease ... but the truth is that the critical reception, and sales
media has been remarkable. Caicedo is now an author who is part of the literary map
IN THE BOOK FAIR. Andres Caicedo and "My body is a cell"
The salsa dancing did not know
ORDERING and edit texts and unpublished letters, Alberto Fuguet reconstruct the complex And contradictory VOICE OF THE LEGENDARY WRITER CALI
By Enrique Planas
I admired as a film critic, but never fully believe in the virtues of their literature. Therefore, the Chilean writer Alberto Fuguet always thought was missing a great work in producing the now deceased Colombian writer Andres Caicedo (London 1951-1977). Reason, decided to compose himself.
Thus, dispersed and heterogeneous original Caicedo, correspondence and largely unpublished prose, which no one had paid attention, Fuguet up (or direct) a true literary documentary. My body is a cell (The other side) is the author of "Mala onda", the masterpiece of the author and the rest of Cali, books such as "crossed" or "Long live the music," he would rather text complementary.
A "masterpiece" made, paradoxically, with the scraps left by other publishers who dived into the trunks full of manuscripts that the young writer left suicide at age 25, hours after receiving the first edition of his novel "What live music. "
"Traditionally, if a young writer dies and is no longer material, the first thing you see are his stories and novels. It was felt that an important writer was the most creative, the most gifted in storytelling. But today, it is more reasonable to think that a writer is someone who not only narrates but confesses to be naked, he reflects, he criticizes. So I dare say that an important part of his work is "My body is a cell," says Chilean writer via telephone, hours prior to participating, via a teleconference, the presentation of the book at the fair Ricardo Palma, held last Friday.
certainly delve into the life of a manic depressive writer, brutally obsessive, and contradictory to the limit, it was an exhausting undertaking. "Although I was fond of as a character, and had decided to protect it, sometimes I made life unbearable, "says Fuguet. But the fascination with this great and complicated character offset any depletion.
Of course, any reader who find a key that explains the reason for his suicide, find rather a combination of the reasons and injustices. "Not I have the answer as to why he committed suicide. But what is clear is that I have had nothing to do with what he said, that life was not worth it lived after age 25. I think the book manages to unmask the pose. Indeed, Caicedo was not as rockin as he thought. Nor could dance salsa, something incredible for whom he wrote a novel like "Long live the music!" In the end, Andrew was a stutterer, a guy who watched movies all day, a person injured and divided, "he explains.
However, in the structure of this memoir published 30 years after his death, shows how a failure Fuguet Caicedo trip 24 years ago in Hollywood with the naive idea of \u200b\u200bselling a film script led to the collapse of mind of the writer.
"Clearly the trip to the U.S. marked a before and after in his life. Caicedo was never the same. This guy with a name that opened doors in Cali comes to Hollywood, where he believes to know both film would open the door as if he had a Visa Gold card. But just making fools of themselves. Caicedo was damaged from that blow. Since then the building started to collapse, "says the writer.
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