Peregrinni

“He still felt love for someone who had plainly and simply decided to forget him.”

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

“Probably those once accompanied walks had turned out to be such an intense, though brief, experience that, beyond time, his subconscious continued to long for a presence that was no longer there.”

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

“The beauty of art is in our imperfection.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

“Silence has become omnipresent and seemingly infinite for many miles, even longer than your mind can remember.”

José Baroja livro Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“As if already destined for the seventh circle, a shudder stops him from heading toward the unknown, toward the beautifully fatal.”

José Baroja livro Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“At times, he yearns for the few pockets of darkness that remain on this night so illuminated by that cursed moon, by the despicable stars, by the cursed vehicles, by the hateful city.”

José Baroja livro Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“It must certainly be considered true that once a work leaves our pen, it no longer belongs to us.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

“Can someone suffering from hunger or abuse really be encouraged to read a book?”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

“He still blamed himself for having believed someone who, without a doubt, lied better than he did.”

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

“Although he still continued to go out walking alone, it was also true that with every outing, in each of them, he used to feel something strange and dark accumulating within him.”

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

“Having accepted this, there was nothing left but to adapt to the new conditions, a task that cost him a world or perhaps two.”

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

“Undoubtedly, he feared that smile”

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

“I must say that in Chile, the supremacy of the Market as the all-powerful governing body has made the development of the cultural field even more difficult than in Mexico.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

“Just a moment ago, he was certainly contemplating a shadow on the ground, and now he was the shadow contemplating himself.”

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

“School is not a daycare center.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

“Proud to be a "damn South American" and not a "suck-up" to the United States.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

“From the margins, one can speak with irony, tenderness, and rage.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

“Telling stories from the margins is a symbolic act of justice.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

“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 (1983) Chilean author and editor