Felipe González

@Reader1994, member from July 21, 2022

Academic.
Literature.
Books.
Movies.

„Es war, als ob inmitten dieses Sex-Wirbelsturms alles einfacher wäre.“

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

„…die literarische Erfahrung wird von der Zerbrechlichkeit des Lebens genährt.“

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

„…Wer könnte besser als ein Lateinamerikaner über das Leid von Hunden und andere Geschichten schreiben?“

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

„Gott? Christus. Die Jungfrau. Dieses Guadalajara ist so reich an Kathedralen, so reich an Erscheinungen, dass ich sicher bin, dass dies die wahren Grundlagen der Stadt und ihres Unglücks sind: Der Regen wäscht die Sünde dieser Welt weg …“

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José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

„Ohne Geld gibt es in dieser Stadt keine bleibende Fantasie!“

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José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

„Das Schreiben hat meinem Leben Sinn, Kohärenz und Identität verliehen.“

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José Baroja (1983) Chilenischer Schriftsteller

Source: El Correo Gallegohttps://www.elcorreogallego.es/el-correo-2/la-escritura-le-aporto-sentido-coherencia-e-identidad-a-mi-vida-AP10794051

„Die Förderung des Lesens ist eine moralische Verantwortung von Schriftstellern.“

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José Baroja (1983) Chilenischer Schriftsteller

Source: Perú Informa.

“Current school education in the United States is so bad that the only thing they got in 2025 was a bad Trump.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM Rock&Pop.

“I never feel like a text is completely finished. Over and over again I reread it, preferably out loud, until a certain tiredness leads me to send it to the editor, who will decide whether it is published or not.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Fondo de Cultura Económica. Entrevista de Miguel Esteban Torreblanca. https://www.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/Noticia/706

“…sometimes I feel like I betray the writer when I try to teach literature.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://portal.ucm.cl/noticias/la-literatura-la-biografia-emocional-humano-se-ha-atrevido-escribirla

“For me, the important thing is still the people.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Fuente: https://portal.ucm.cl/noticias/academico-la-ucm-presento-segunda-antologia-hijo-perra-otros-cuentos

“I believe that academics do not flow naturally with this world, since, many times, the Academy, from those all-knowing egos, which are not lacking, turns the literary into a mere object lacking spirit.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Fuente: https://portal.ucm.cl/noticias/academico-la-ucm-presento-segunda-antologia-hijo-perra-otros-cuentos

“We cannot be naive: the literature book will not solve poverty by itself”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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

“We know well that there is poverty in Latin America, beyond the beauty of our nations.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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

“The person on foot realizes that there is no misery in cities like Madrid or Barcelona, first world cities that, I think, have lost the heart that Latin Americans still have.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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

“Today the writer has to be on the ground, because it is on the ground where he is needed most.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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

“I think of the northern country, the United States, where they are specialists, very good at what they do, but sometimes, many times, they have no memory of the things that have happened, because they are so interested in raising money that the past is blurred and give meaning to ignorance on the basis of consumption.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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

“If we focus only on making money, people's knowledge will be reduced until we become experts in our subject, but ignorant about human beings.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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

“In democracy, wishing bad for an incoming government is like buying a gun, buying the bullets, loading it and wishing to be killed with it: sovereign dogmatic stupidity.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: 1480 AM Rock&Pop.

“Pultes Scotorum.”

John Scotus Eriugena (810–877) Irish theologian

Irish porridge.

Verdict of the Fourth Council of Valence, 855, on his De Divina Praedestinatione, cited from Ferdinand Christian Baur Die christliche Kirche des Mittelalters in den Haupmomenten ihrer Entwicklung (Tübingen: Fues, 1861) p. 56; translation from Andrew Gibson James Joyce (London: Reaktion, 2006) p. 62.
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