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

José Baroja

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

“We are just cogs and nuts of a few stupid people in power.”

José Baroja

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

José Baroja

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

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

José Baroja

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

“While it's true that, recently, Ramiro Gutiérrez had shown a tendency toward tearful and painful literature, he had never felt the same way, for example, as the pathetic Werther or the gallant Don Quixote.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

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“Literature that hurts is often the one that best tells a complex truth.”

José Baroja

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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“Literature is an act of communion.”

José Baroja

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

“In the end, the two failed Chilean constituent processes were a marketing exercise to legitimize the constitution of the Dictatorship.”

José Baroja

Source: Interview.

“Why walk with half measures, animals know much more than people, above all because they feel more freely than most of these and, therefore, as Kafka says, they are possessors of all the knowledge about this life. They are just too humble to show it off.”

José Baroja

Original: Para qué andar con medias tintas, los animales saben mucho más que las personas, ante todo porque sienten con más libertad que la mayoría de estas y, por ello, como dice Kafka, son poseedores de todo el conocimiento acerca de esta vida. Solo que son muy humildes para hacer gala de ello.
Source: Baroja, José. (2020). "Orfeo". En El lado oscuro de la sombra y otros ladridos. Lima: Ediquid, ISBN:978-980-7641-67-8; p. 40.

“I think that living only from writing is a privilege, in economic terms, that only some writers have achieved and to which, probably, all authors aspire: a difficult goal that is not impossible.”

José Baroja

Original: Pienso que vivir solo de la escritura es un privilegio, en términos económicos, que solo algunos escritores y escritoras han conseguido y al que, probablemente, todos los autores aspiramos: una meta difícil que no imposible. <br class="br">Source: Cazas Fernández, A. (2022). &quot;La escritura le aportó sentido, coherencia e identidad a mi vida&quot;. En Correo Gallego. https://www.elcorreogallego.es/el-correo-2/la-escritura-le-aporto-sentido-coherencia-e-identidad-a-mi-vida-AP10794051. Consultado el 16 de junio de 2022.

“In the end, finding the Truth will always be tiring in a world full of appearances.”

José Baroja

Source: Klairet Levy, R. Interview to José Baroja. http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html

“They never noticed the one who, silently, sustained this story, chose the future, set the guidelines for their memories and desires.”

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

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

José Baroja

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

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

José Baroja

Source: Interview. Portal.ucm.cl

“…over time he would realize that the higher he was, the less danger he was in and the more he controlled the ever-ready mass.”

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

“Mexico is a beautiful country in its tremendous contradictions.”

José Baroja

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

“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

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

“How to be sure that nothing will happen, when you don't always need a reason to become one of those cursed and deceptive beings, those entities thrown from the cradle of God.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“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