Felipe González

@Reader1994, member from July 21, 2022

Academic.
Literature.
Books.
Movies.

“I'll go out on a limb and say that that glow arose from his past.”

José Baroja book No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“After that “amen,” Evaristo discovered the faces of approval and fear of his audience, so he knew that he already had them in his hands.”

José Baroja book No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“Then, Evaristo felt in his hands the exercise of the power that Foucault spoke so much about, and he felt it like someone who discovers fear in his fellow men.”

José Baroja book No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“Before becoming godín, Jaime worked for a miserable 79 mexican pesos an hour as a subject professor in one of the many universities in Guadalajara; very little for any future aspirations and very little for any present aspirations.”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“The closest thing to purgatory is a government agency, only the first does not exist and the second is very real.”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“Without underestimating the virtues of technical, specialized and necessary education, we cannot accept an education that eliminates the other dimension of human knowledge, that which motivates us to be more cultured, more human, deeper, more emotional.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Perú Informa. Interview. https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/

“He remained frozen for a few minutes, while urine fell from a limb dwarfed by the fear caused by the sensation of near death.”

José Baroja book El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“That work pride, that ridiculous work pride has put an end to his illusions, with those few illusions that he still had since at school they promised him a magnificent future just for entering university.”

José Baroja book No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“Soon the crashes, the blackouts, the hypothermias, the demands for public lighting and a lot of misdeeds will hide the disappearances, the plots, the deaths, the domestic violence, the corruptions and a long etcetera…”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“Surrendering to state or private financing is bullshit.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Revista Momento ahora o nunca, n°139 (2019)

“Conditioned like sheep in a flock, they have only managed to say “beee”, which translated into martial language would be “Yes, sir.””

José Baroja book El lado oscuro de la sombra y otros ladridos

“When Agatha already felt like she was dying, for a second she thought about turning him into a eunuch for life, in self-defense, she would argue.”

José Baroja book El lado oscuro de la sombra y otros ladridos

“…the walls of his house were full of images of a happy past, which in his mind seemed like a constant outside of time.”

José Baroja book El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“Literature is the emotional biography of a human being who has dared to write it.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview. Portal.ucm.cl

“…Who better than a Latin American to write about dirty tricks and other stories.”

José Baroja book El lado oscuro de la sombra y otros ladridos

“Surrendering to state or private financing is bullshit.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Revista Momento ahora o nunca, n°139 (2019)

“I think that a literary work should not be a piece of spit thrown onto the road.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview. "No más cuentos para princesas".

“God? Christ. The Virgin. This Guadalajara is so rich in cathedrals, so rich in appearances, that I am sure that these are the true foundations of the city and its misfortune: the rain washes away the sin of this world…”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“Among those corporeal glances, in the midst of those libidinous flirtations and those wild impulses, there were no doubts or excess verses, not even a bad song…”

José Baroja book El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“That's the writer's game: everything is about us.”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos