- "Is not the world ends?" is the latest novel by this writer Colombian journalist.
- At 72 years old, is already working on a new novel about a boy and his dog, to be titled and Cañengo Othello. "
Camilo Argüello Benítez
Colprensa
- At 72 years old, is already working on a new novel about a boy and his dog, to be titled and Cañengo Othello. "
Camilo Argüello Benítez
Colprensa
"I've always considered my teacher," says writer Caycedo Germain of Germain Pinzón Castro, one of the journalists and writers more creative and irreverent of the sixties in Colombia. His name has been synonymous with a particular type of narrative journalism and Colombian novel since joining the media.
Throughout his three novels and dozens of reviews, Finch has written television scripts, history, stories and travel, work has played general news editor, sports editor, editor and columnist. Received two journalism awards "Marco Fidel Suarez." In 1966 he won first prize novel Nadaísta forefront with his work 'Earthquake' and creates the issue of Myth ', a publication that served as sample for literary writers of the time.
Descended from a family originally from Cajicá, a small town located in the department of Cundinamarca, and came to live in the old Bogotá, those that spread from La Candelaria, inherited the science of letters from his father, a doctor and poet dedicated to the pleasures dream of a comprehensive home library.
Throughout his three novels and dozens of reviews, Finch has written television scripts, history, stories and travel, work has played general news editor, sports editor, editor and columnist. Received two journalism awards "Marco Fidel Suarez." In 1966 he won first prize novel Nadaísta forefront with his work 'Earthquake' and creates the issue of Myth ', a publication that served as sample for literary writers of the time.
Descended from a family originally from Cajicá, a small town located in the department of Cundinamarca, and came to live in the old Bogotá, those that spread from La Candelaria, inherited the science of letters from his father, a doctor and poet dedicated to the pleasures dream of a comprehensive home library.
Pinzón Germain speaks with a soft, flat voice, with accents that are still marked effect of colonial architecture Bogotá where she grew up, but slow in speech, not boring. Prefer to talk bluntly and decorate with historical events ever revealed in school books.
This interview took place in a baroque style apartment, living room with stone walls, dozens of books, which recognizes Pinzón who has lost a few times while looking for M Marquez, the first edition of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', signed by the same "Gabo" during a spontaneous.
Germain is a short man but by no means small. Wearing a dark jacket with tiny but abundant white lines to light blue shirt, tie lines and a cigarette half way, looks like old-school official. Is present for an interviewer because he has the gift of making bland questions in smart air questions to try to assume that the interviewer wanted to say the least. Male
apparently fixed habits, sitting Pinzón the blue sofa seems to take his years with plenty of rest, in fact, moving so quietly that but why would a being weightless, almost ghostly.
allow His manner is polite conversation. It breaks the paradigm that marks his strongest writing by the figure relaxed, friendly, sensible and realistic a writer who loves life, and most likely learned to love death. Its fresh and cheerful attitude is reflected in his face gaunt and gray as his eyes now look more like a cloud. Almost ten years after the publication of 'The life and the other', Finch leaves to light a new story: Federman, a terminally ill patient for whom death is already a sure thing. A novel which traces the history of Bogota from toll scenarios melancholy legendary left in memory of his hero by the time already lost.
THE END OF THE WORLDS INVIDIVUALES
- How does the novel "is not just the world?"?
- The question makes mankind since the beginning when the world ends? From thousand years is said to be the end of the world, but in the hundredth year also thought the same. People spend waiting the end of the world without realizing that each is the world and that when that person dies just their world, that is unrepeatable. A man is a summary about geological history planet.
The novel was born as a project for many years because even friend had discovered she had cancer, then the guy said, "I can not say as Pablo Neruda, 'I confess I have not lived'. In three months I will try to take me the revenge of that. "
- What hypothesis raises the novel?
- FEDEM, the protagonist, is intended to pick something right: the right to die as you want. One can not choose what family never born, nor in what country or what time. "I know I can die of cancer but I can die of something else." And then he goes to meet short-term in this repressed all his adventures in the routine be robbed of his life for other interests.
FEDEM dying in that kind of twilight, without distinguishing which one is: If it's dawn or dusk, it is rare encounters with people already dead. Mary Rider is the alleged witch burnt alive in the investigation of Cartagena in the nineteenth century, Ricardo Gaitán Obeso, guerrilla buzzed President Rafael Núñez. His remarks are inspired by newspapers of the time .. They are stories based on real documents.
There will
citing cases and everything to put on the table again a series of questions that are being abolished and that are systematically basis of the justification of life, ie, what one is born? What is the individual target? What is the origin of life?. The problem is not dying, the problem is what I pursued goals for that life.
- Where to write the book?
This book was not written here, but in an apartment in downtown Bogota, Race 5 between 18 and 19 which is a nice way. Very near there also wrote, in a pot, in the race 12 with Calle 22, the other novel before this called 'Is this life and the next. "
- Re-read your novels?
hardly accustomed
that. I left the book and never read it again, or only many years later to have a perspective not so personal. But rereading it, I realized that underneath it all seems to slip the possibility of an art, to be called the art of dying. There are many ways to die but if one is dedicated to one of them may choose another. Also, instead of surrendering to terror as the bullfighter surrounds the bull in a maze of silk, in a maze of one pass and do not surround the death of courtship, there is that its use, and learn to die.
Beethoven said, complaining of his life, 'I have not learned to die. The music has saved me from dying but I have not pinned to die. " It seems that a beautiful challenge that people assume a few times, is the challenge of death, personal challenge, individual.
- How you apply that to the novel?
A Federman finally reached or not cancer or the police. Entresueños die knowing that it is not known whether past or future on a girl who appears and vanishes, but finally manages to materialize in a kind of delirium that occurs because there are probably other tests.
- How to start in writing?
For my father wrote. As he wrote, and I saw him write because I woke up this anxiety to do the same before learn to read. I began to defend myself by drawing pictures, stories without dialogue, drawing doodles very bad but a little good for my age. It piqued my curiosity about the immense power that gives literature, which is the power to enlighten
I think that literature is the backbone of humanity. She moves from book to book. The big event or big ideas are always the product of books, including unwritten books such as Plato writes that Socrates, though it may be that Plato invented Socrates Socrates or Plato invented.
twentieth century chronicler
- You started in journalism what will help the profession to his life and literature?
The largest of journalism is that you see things as they are, well, not the count. One such journalist is transmitted as received them, with the same ability to impact both the feelings of fear and condemnation.
- Do you recommend journalistic work for an apprentice writer?
course. At the time I started working at The Spectator I knew that almost every journalist who was there was because I wanted to be a writer but had to make that school. First as an exercise to launch, the polished language. Then he went to as a permanent contact every day, and very contrary to all facets of life. Journalism full of arguments for writing.
The truth is that there is to do novel. Is on day to day. Cervantes wrote of two characters that really are not original: Don Quixote and Sancho, who are on earth. One is a gentleman who is half crazy and the other is a pawn that accompanies it. I am sure in many corners of the globe, there Quixote and Sancho Panza.
- Are you working on anything now? Yes
A novel about a boy and his dog, titled% ¬ Othello and Cañengo '. It's what occupies my days 72.
- How does the novel "is not just the world?"?
- The question makes mankind since the beginning when the world ends? From thousand years is said to be the end of the world, but in the hundredth year also thought the same. People spend waiting the end of the world without realizing that each is the world and that when that person dies just their world, that is unrepeatable. A man is a summary about geological history planet.
The novel was born as a project for many years because even friend had discovered she had cancer, then the guy said, "I can not say as Pablo Neruda, 'I confess I have not lived'. In three months I will try to take me the revenge of that. "
- What hypothesis raises the novel?
- FEDEM, the protagonist, is intended to pick something right: the right to die as you want. One can not choose what family never born, nor in what country or what time. "I know I can die of cancer but I can die of something else." And then he goes to meet short-term in this repressed all his adventures in the routine be robbed of his life for other interests.
FEDEM dying in that kind of twilight, without distinguishing which one is: If it's dawn or dusk, it is rare encounters with people already dead. Mary Rider is the alleged witch burnt alive in the investigation of Cartagena in the nineteenth century, Ricardo Gaitán Obeso, guerrilla buzzed President Rafael Núñez. His remarks are inspired by newspapers of the time .. They are stories based on real documents.
There will
citing cases and everything to put on the table again a series of questions that are being abolished and that are systematically basis of the justification of life, ie, what one is born? What is the individual target? What is the origin of life?. The problem is not dying, the problem is what I pursued goals for that life. - Where to write the book?
This book was not written here, but in an apartment in downtown Bogota, Race 5 between 18 and 19 which is a nice way. Very near there also wrote, in a pot, in the race 12 with Calle 22, the other novel before this called 'Is this life and the next. "
- Re-read your novels?
hardly accustomed
that. I left the book and never read it again, or only many years later to have a perspective not so personal. But rereading it, I realized that underneath it all seems to slip the possibility of an art, to be called the art of dying. There are many ways to die but if one is dedicated to one of them may choose another. Also, instead of surrendering to terror as the bullfighter surrounds the bull in a maze of silk, in a maze of one pass and do not surround the death of courtship, there is that its use, and learn to die.
Beethoven said, complaining of his life, 'I have not learned to die. The music has saved me from dying but I have not pinned to die. " It seems that a beautiful challenge that people assume a few times, is the challenge of death, personal challenge, individual.
- How you apply that to the novel?
A Federman finally reached or not cancer or the police. Entresueños die knowing that it is not known whether past or future on a girl who appears and vanishes, but finally manages to materialize in a kind of delirium that occurs because there are probably other tests.
- How to start in writing?
For my father wrote. As he wrote, and I saw him write because I woke up this anxiety to do the same before learn to read. I began to defend myself by drawing pictures, stories without dialogue, drawing doodles very bad but a little good for my age. It piqued my curiosity about the immense power that gives literature, which is the power to enlighten
I think that literature is the backbone of humanity. She moves from book to book. The big event or big ideas are always the product of books, including unwritten books such as Plato writes that Socrates, though it may be that Plato invented Socrates Socrates or Plato invented.
twentieth century chronicler
- You started in journalism what will help the profession to his life and literature?
The largest of journalism is that you see things as they are, well, not the count. One such journalist is transmitted as received them, with the same ability to impact both the feelings of fear and condemnation.
- Do you recommend journalistic work for an apprentice writer?
course. At the time I started working at The Spectator I knew that almost every journalist who was there was because I wanted to be a writer but had to make that school. First as an exercise to launch, the polished language. Then he went to as a permanent contact every day, and very contrary to all facets of life. Journalism full of arguments for writing.
The truth is that there is to do novel. Is on day to day. Cervantes wrote of two characters that really are not original: Don Quixote and Sancho, who are on earth. One is a gentleman who is half crazy and the other is a pawn that accompanies it. I am sure in many corners of the globe, there Quixote and Sancho Panza.
- Are you working on anything now? Yes
A novel about a boy and his dog, titled% ¬ Othello and Cañengo '. It's what occupies my days 72.
