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“One could say I understand the city as an entity that shapes those who inhabit it, even though, in the process, it can become an anthropophagous being, merciless—especially toward the less privileged.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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“The city becomes an ideal metaphor for how I perceive human beings.”

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“The mestizo dog is an intense allegory of the Latin American condition.”

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“From the margins, one can speak with irony, tenderness, and rage.”

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Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

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“Poets are here to disturb the status quo.”

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“Every literary work is a political act—not in the pamphleteering sense, which has done so much harm to art, but in that intimate—and sometimes devastating—way in which a phrase, an image, a character can shake the reader enough to make them doubt their own certainties.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

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“Politicians should live like ordinary citizens.”

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“Urban life becomes a space where beauty and decay, crowd and solitude, justice and injustice coexist.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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“Trump supporters are just now realizing that Superman is the Immigrant.”

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“Today, going to schools is essential, since, just as doctors have a duty to protect life, writers must spread literature, because literature is in itself, along with art in general, the greatest form of freedom we still have.”

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“In a certain way, I think that literature is capable of effectively uncovering and revealing many more “layers” of the framework that composes and hides our society and ourselves. That is, it is capable of bringing us closer to something that, for lack of a better word, I will call “Truth,” and that applies to Art itself, more than to History, more than to Anthropology, or more than to any other branch of the Social Sciences.”

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“When politicians take over public transportation, public health, public education—that is, live like ordinary people and not like rich people—everything will be better.”

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Source: "La Otra Historia". RockandPop 1480AM. Guadalajara, Mexico.

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