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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

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

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“Literature must avoid propaganda or moralism if it truly wants to be critical and open.”

José Baroja

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

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

José Baroja

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

“Probably, the eccentricities of those who visited the establishment meant nothing to him, especially if they were accompanied by a generous tip.”

José Baroja book El hombre del terrón de azúcar y otros cuentos

“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

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



“We longed to be in the middle of some neophyte gaze of some library entity, of someone rediscovering paper.”

José Baroja book Mi último invierno

“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

Source: 1480 AM Rock&Pop.

“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

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

“Pedestrians, passersby, civilians, citizens, couples, singles, children of God, move from side to side, miserable in their ignorance.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“Neofascism dresses up in makeup, glamour, and pure spectacle.”

José Baroja

Source: 1480 AM Rock & Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

“In the end, it's just everyday life and forgetting, because there's nothing fantastic about people having to die every day.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

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

José Baroja

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

“That apartment was the only property he truly owned—his own as much as a rental can be.”

José Baroja book El hombre del terrón de azúcar y otros cuentos

“Overcome by that mix of cowardice and curiosity typical of 1980s horror movies, where we all knew the protagonists shouldn’t go that way, he knew he shouldn’t look—but he did.”

José Baroja book El hombre del terrón de azúcar y otros cuentos

“Los Prisioneros were always right: for the 'gringos,' Latin America is still just one country south of the United States.”

José Baroja

Source: "La Otra Historia". Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM. Guadalajara, Mexico.

“The biggest mistake of the average wage earner is forgetting that no company has or will ever have a human heart.”

José Baroja

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. "La Otra Historia". Rock & Pop 1480 AM. Guadalajara, Mexico.