Hi everyone.
This post will be about art, which is a very pleasant but also a difficult topic for me because i love many fields of art, so its hard to choose.. but in this case we will focus on the art of writing. In a writer in specific; Luis Sepúlveda. He's a chilean writer from Ovalle and he was born in 1949.
I read one of his books when i was like fifteen, called "Diario de un killer sentimental" which i loved. It was a mix of traveler's knowledge, the sudamerican writer's identity, police novel and love.
He has many books and he's known by his diversity of themes; he lived in Chile in times of dictatorship, so his books have a clear political influence, but he has also travel all over the world, from Oslo to Tierra del Fuego, he has been in the Amazonía and also at the Sahara's Desert, and has participated in different organizations as Greenpeace working against the whale's killing and the oil contamination of the sea. He was part of many revolutionary groups of Latinoamerica; in Chile he was part of the Unidad Popular, in Nicaragua where he participated in the Revolución Sandinista and also in Ecuador, where he met the shuar indians, who were the inspiration to his best seller "Un viejo que leía novelas de amor". All this facts are captured in his novels and stories, that's why i think i like it so much, because he is a person that has many of the qualities that i admire, like an idol or something: a revolutionary, a person that has social conscience, an ecologist, someone who lived the dictatorship and can transmit it to those who didn't lived it so we can learn from it, a critic, a passionate human being.
You probably didn't know him because, well, no one is a prophet in his land, but in Europe he is actually known like a sort of the second Garcia Márquez, but it's pretty subjective. In any case, i've just finished another book from him called "Nombre de torero". If you liked this little biography of him, you should give him a try, if you want i can lend it to you. You won't get disappointed.
"La atmósfera de sus creaciones se inserta en una suerte de realismo, que no desconoce la magia, pero se distingue porque está aferrada a realidades sociales y geográficas."
He has many books and he's known by his diversity of themes; he lived in Chile in times of dictatorship, so his books have a clear political influence, but he has also travel all over the world, from Oslo to Tierra del Fuego, he has been in the Amazonía and also at the Sahara's Desert, and has participated in different organizations as Greenpeace working against the whale's killing and the oil contamination of the sea. He was part of many revolutionary groups of Latinoamerica; in Chile he was part of the Unidad Popular, in Nicaragua where he participated in the Revolución Sandinista and also in Ecuador, where he met the shuar indians, who were the inspiration to his best seller "Un viejo que leía novelas de amor". All this facts are captured in his novels and stories, that's why i think i like it so much, because he is a person that has many of the qualities that i admire, like an idol or something: a revolutionary, a person that has social conscience, an ecologist, someone who lived the dictatorship and can transmit it to those who didn't lived it so we can learn from it, a critic, a passionate human being.
You probably didn't know him because, well, no one is a prophet in his land, but in Europe he is actually known like a sort of the second Garcia Márquez, but it's pretty subjective. In any case, i've just finished another book from him called "Nombre de torero". If you liked this little biography of him, you should give him a try, if you want i can lend it to you. You won't get disappointed.
PS: Here's a quote that i found that kinda describes his narrative, but i dont't think i can translate it to english and that it still has the same sense when you read it.
"La atmósfera de sus creaciones se inserta en una suerte de realismo, que no desconoce la magia, pero se distingue porque está aferrada a realidades sociales y geográficas."
I had to read this book in school, it was pretty good and the cover is amazing
ResponderEliminarI have read about 4 of his Novels "Un viejo ....." is my favourite. I've read it twice:)
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