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Ramón Mauricio González Gutiérrez , known by his pen name José Baroja, is a Chilean writer, academic and editor. He is a member of the Poets of the World Movement, representative of the Neofantastic Short-story and the new Chilean narrative. Wikipedia  

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José Baroja Quotes

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“Does literature change social reality? Perhaps not. But it reveals it, brings it into the conversation—which is no small thing. It puts it in tension with reality itself. It strips it of its masks. It takes away the official discourse, or at least makes it squirm.”

José Baroja

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

Literature , Change , Reality
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“The city is not just a setting, but also a character with its own voice.”

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/

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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/

Literature
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“Urban movement and noise help me speak poetically about the social world.”

José Baroja

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

World , Help
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“Walking with open senses reveals stories in the smallest everyday details.”

José Baroja

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

Sense
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“Sometimes what screams the loudest in a city is what makes no sound.”

José Baroja

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

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“A stray dog listens to what no one says and sees what is hidden, making him a privileged narrator.”

José Baroja

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

Dogs
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“What society refuses to see is what most strongly defines it.”

José Baroja

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

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“Chile hides its wounds with order and progress; Mexico displays them with folklore.”

José Baroja

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

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“The Chilean silence is one of repression; the Mexican, of resignation.”

José Baroja

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

Silence
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“I have been opposed, from the beginning, to presenting ideological, political, or religious pamphleteering stances that seek to simplify the human experience into functional Manichaeism.”

José Baroja

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

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“The urban allows me to explore those contradictions without falling into propagandistic or moralistic discourse; an essential matter, in my view, when it comes to literature.”

José Baroja

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

Literature
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“I’m not interested in portraying the official city, the one that appears on postcards or government videos, but that other one—the one that pulses on the margins.”

José Baroja

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

Appearance
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“Latin America’s right-wing has no shame in throwing itself at the highest bidder — their morals shift to match whoever’s holding the purse strings.”

José Baroja

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

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

José Baroja

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

Justice , Beauty , Solitude , Life
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“A shadow on a wall or a stray dog sleeping in the same corner can say more than statistics.”

José Baroja

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

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

José Baroja

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

Dogs
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“In the most vulnerable, there can be dignity, memory, and poetry.”

José Baroja

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

Memory
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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

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

Way , Art , Sense
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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.”

José Baroja

Source: http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html

History , Truth , Literature , Science
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“Politicians should live like ordinary citizens.”

José Baroja
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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.”

José Baroja

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

Freedom , Literature , School , Art
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“Trump supporters are just now realizing that Superman is the Immigrant.”

José Baroja

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Support
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“Beware of nuns and priests, they will make you doubt your faith.”

José Baroja

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Faith
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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.”

José Baroja

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

People , Health , Education
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“In a democracy, leaders must resemble people, not monarchs.”

José Baroja

Source: 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico

Democracy , People
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“The fantastic is both protection and an analytical tool.”

José Baroja

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

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“Irony without co-responsibility is mere ornament; with co-responsibility, it is a critical instrument.”

José Baroja

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

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“If an anonymous reader finds in a fragment the key to name their own shame or their own tenderness, then the work has fulfilled its most precious social function.”

José Baroja

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

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“As an author, one negotiates between aesthetic will and the possibility of circulation.”

José Baroja

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

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“The economy is a silent co-author.”

José Baroja

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

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“Portraying poverty or violence as a photogenic landscape is a betrayal.”

José Baroja

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

Betrayal
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“The fable is an aesthetic scalpel that opens the social flesh without turning it into a museum object.”

José Baroja

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

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“Truth does not justify gratuitous cruelty.”

José Baroja

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

Truth
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“Belonging is not a fixed point but a becoming.”

José Baroja

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

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“Sometimes the plot seems like a fissure in the city, at other times like a symptom.”

José Baroja

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

Time
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“So much immorality, so much petty selfishness in using migrants for mere electoral interests.”

José Baroja

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

Selfishness
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“The Chilean far right did not win an election: it won oblivion. And with those who vote against memory, there is no debate—because dialogue begins only where consciousness still remains.”

José Baroja

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

Memory
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“Power does not need to impose itself when it manages to pay you for your silence: a punctual paycheck is enough to make obedience seem like common sense.”

José Baroja

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

Silence , Sense
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“The right does not deny the disappeared detainees: it manages them as silence. For them, they are not absent bodies but obstacles already overcome; and upon that well-ordered grave they build their idea of a country.”

José Baroja

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

Country , Silence , Idea
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“When people stop shuddering at the pain of others, crime no longer needs executioners: consent is enough.”

José Baroja

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

Pain , People
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“The foundation and strength of human evolution lie in empathy.”

José Baroja

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

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