desde Bogotá, donde pasé la Last week, Taboga according Caicedo, I get a lot of info,
more than I can put, but the book is provoking and disturbing, and what makes me happier, is changing the look that the Colombians themselves have
this
AC is the Colombian weekly Semana,
an impressive article by Eduardo Arias
The rightful place
While Latin America begins to discover Andrés Caicedo, My body is a cell , autobiography, and texts based on personal letters, shows that more than one author for teens.
Andrés Caicedo, one of the best-kept literary secrets that had Colombia, begins to become famous in the rest of Latin America. Caicedo, who speaks in Colombia for more than 30 years following his suicide, his novel Long live music and some of his most memorable stories, he was a virtually unknown in the rest of the continent, and whether his name was known in very tight circuit of worship.
Why the change?
One of the main culprits is the Chilean writer Alberto Fuguet, who has just published with Norma Editorial My body is a cell , an autobiography that he assembled based on letters to friends, personal texts and films Caicedo, several of them unpublished. Fufuet threw it at the last Book Fair held in Santiago. "In Chile Caicedo did not exist and the book has been incredible. After the release I sat two hours signing copies." He adds that in Chile and Argentina seems extremely contemporary writer. "I do not think they have written in the 70's." Various
news columns and mass circulation newspapers Argentines as Clarín and La Nación, on the occasion of publishing in this country live the music or release of My body is a cell , endorse Fuguet's statement: "Andrés Caicedo, the James Dean of American literature." "Death and Resurrection: The Colombian writer Andres Caicedo committed suicide in 1977 at age 25. Mito 'punk' and son of a sick city, began to be published in Argentina" or "caicediano year?" are just some examples.
According Fuguet Andres Caicedo began finally to take their place in the world, and notes that will soon be translated into German. "We need out of the worship, young field and give their true dimension."
Fuguet, author of novels such as Mala Onda, Red Ink, Movies my life and the graphic novel Road Story , appears in the credits of My body is a cell as if he were the director and the head assembly of a movie. Because in reality that's what he did. Arming them with readers the true picture of Andres Caicedo. Show that the character charged with the mythical aura of being a rocker and mop tile salsómano plaguing the Branch of Heaven was actually a be tormented, confused, extremely fragile and not a suicide gesture generation (that of "not worth living for over 25 years), but because her life was great. Something that had begun to insinuate some of the articles and letters published Caicedo before, (especially in The story of my life ), but did Fuguet more than evident when accessing a material that until recently Caicedo Estela's family had not considered relevant to be made public.
Reading these pages, Fuguet armed with the precision of a surgeon, reveals many of the issues that had so tormented. To do this he used letters, texts about their daily lives, and even film criticism. But the mere selection and transcription of texts in a more or less chronological order. Fuguet took fragments of writings, letters merged it day to several people to get the most relevant for each of them and also included some critical reviews of movies he had seen.
"It was not a book of letters," says Fuguet. "I realized that when Andrew was writing about movies, talking about movies and, through them, mostly talking about himself. These texts are key film of his life. You can not understand without cinema Caicedo without his interest in film. "
And perhaps one of the most striking detail of this building for four hands between two characters who never knew is that Caicedo and Fuguet have in common not only taste literature, but also for film. And it was thanks to the movie Fuguet learned of the existence of Andres Caicedo.
"Assembling this book was detective work," he recalls. It all began in 2000 when looking Fuguet books in a bookstore in Lima and met Eye cinema, the film anthology of Andres Caicedo they collected in 1997 and Sandro Romero Ospina Luis Rey, the curators of the work of Caicedo (see box). Fuguet
faced its mission with all seriousness. "I wanted to find out who this mysterious writer. I wanted to settle the case and solve it well. I wanted to know who that author would have liked to have read before, that globalized Latin American moviegoer. In addition, Colombia. If it had been an author of Ecuador or Peru, suddenly the character would not have attracted so much attention. But I found it irresistible to discover in the country of Gabriel Garcia Marquez had been a writer who had advanced to McOndo.
Fuguet It must be remembered that became known on the continent following the anthology McOndo , in which he and others wanted to tell the world that magical realism was a thing of the past and it was time to hear the voices of a mainland cities open to the influences of the entire planet.
For Fuguet, Caicedo was a victim of his time. On the one hand, 30 years ago was very difficult to be to society as weak and fragile, and more macho societies such as Latin America. On the other hand, he feels that rather than write, Caicedo wanted to make movies. "It might have written less novels and stories," Fuguet adventure, and have been primarily an essayist and film director. With the technological facilities of the early twenty-first century sees him as a compulsive blogger, writes in the aforementioned making of, "Internet Movie Database have been an ideal place to dump your trivia, chats would have connected with other 'freaks' , digital cameras would have helped to film his horror films and a collection of videos or DVDs you no longer sleep peacefully hubría: there, on a shelf, in alphabetical order, could have saved all those images that no longer fit on the head. "
Latin America begins to discover Caicedo. And thanks to Fuguet, an international voice and outside any relationship of affective or generational Caicedo, Colombia will finally leave the bipolar disorder to see whether as a druggie genius, or adolescent bacano the invention of some worshipers. Just read My body is a cell to corroborate what he says Fuguet: The most important of Andres Caicedo are his novels and stories, but Andres Caicedo it.
Sandro Romero Rey:
"A necessary book"
Since the early 80's, Luis Ospina and Sandro Romero Rey is devoted to classify the unpublished works of Andres Caicedo . Sandro Romero Rey and believes the work she did with the material Fuguet Alberto Caicedo.
"My body is a cell is a devastating book. It is not" one-book-of-Andres Caicedo. "Is a reinterpretation of an author, a 'character' become a mystery much deeper and complex, after reading this text armed by the Chilean writer Alberto Fuguet. Through mediation, regular readers of Caicedo may have a bewildered look of many of the texts of obsessive author Cali. But, beyond the realization of his genius no doubt, one can witness the great and sincere tragedy that lay at the heart of Andrew, resolved only with the accidental dose of Seconal March 4. My body is a cell is a book like few others: terrible, heartbreaking, naive, painful, funny. In a word, necessary. "
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