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

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

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

José Baroja

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

José Baroja

„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 …“

José Baroja buch Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

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

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

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

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

“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 buch El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

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

José Baroja buch No fue un catorce de febrero 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 buch Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

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

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“This is how, without the consent of the two lovers, of its two main characters, of the only ones who were originally worth anything in this short story, the narrator decided to incorporate two more words into the plot: “doubt” and “uncertainty.””

José Baroja buch El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo 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 buch No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“She, perhaps, with a consciousness that many of us in adulthood lack or simply lost, would associate that so much water falling on our fat and heavy heads was due to the crying of some poet who was walking by.”

José Baroja buch Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“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 buch Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“It's been years, months, days, but he still can't get out of his mind those horrible, inhuman images, monstrous creations of subjects who look the same as everyone else; equal to him.”

José Baroja buch Un hijo de perra 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.”

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“As a poet I am an emotional accident; a lyrical tourist.”

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“If this were a story, we could affirm that it was a stereotype of an old lady, within a space that had lost its daily life around the corner.”

José Baroja buch Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“Suddenly, as the sun rose, the poem flew without an owner, while he faded away like a fiction called a “story.””

José Baroja buch Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“He cannot stop imagining his bloody hands or himself lying mortally at the bottom of that bathtub, which, for now, serves as his refuge, as his escape from the World, from that which is outside, but which, Any day now, I could decide to go in.”

José Baroja buch Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“In my opinion, and beyond the different definitions about this literary genre or the absurd academic discrepancies about its constitution or taxonomy, the story is above all an experiential art.”

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“Anita complained pitifully, because just because they don't listen to you because of your “small” voice, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt you.”

José Baroja buch Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

““Godín”, is said in Mexico of the office worker from nine to eighteen hours or of any other employee to whom his immediate boss says, during his first day of work and with all the naturalness in the world: “Welcome. From today, your body and soul belong to us.”

José Baroja buch Sueño en Guadalajara 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 buch Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“Contrary to what some might believe, writing does not generate enjoyment or pleasure in itself, quite the opposite; And yet, I feel the need to write fiction as if I have a feeling that I will find something in the middle of my narrative journey, no matter how painful it may be.”

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““I love you”, “I love you”, “I love you”, they said it for every moment in which they swore eternity and something more, to the point that it was annoying for those of us who were close, because, in reality, who loves each other so much? nowadays.”

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

“The demons are always around and he knows it.”

José Baroja buch Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“Already in his old age, at seventy-five years old, after being seriously hospitalized for a severe heart attack, Javier Pérez would remember that only once in his entire existence had he believed he understood what life was.”

José Baroja buch Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“The fear reappears every day, while showering, while watching television, even when just drinking coffee.”

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

“Promoting reading is a moral responsibility of writers.”

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“Unfortunately for him, it is not possible to die twice.”

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

“Who today asks your poem where the country is going?”

José Baroja buch Mi último invierno

“…resignation is like the rain in Mexico City, sometimes sad, arbitrary and inopportune.”

José Baroja buch Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“…this is a story and, therefore, "something must happen", "something" bad, "something" that breaks your safe journey towards the bookstore and, surely, towards "love", because love is the last refuge left in my head or in the depths of any fucking soul.”

José Baroja buch Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“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.”

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