- Gay Talese is a symbol of modern journalism. In Colombia, his narrative style was coined by journalist and writer Alberto Salcedo Ramos, inquiring of his work and he calls it "the best narrative journalist combines his gift for writing with the reporter."
By Camilo Argüello Benítez
Unlike novelists, literary journalists must be truthful and accurate. So Gay Talese, one of the most emblematic figures of print journalism or "new journalism", as it was named in the sixties to the fact immersed in the routine life of real characters, making each event in an event filled with monotonous novelty and symbolism.
Armed with a spiritual background and his acute sense of observation in journalism, Talese will visit Colombia on Tuesday September 25 as guest of honor at F11, the festival of the journal malpensante.
His books, reports, special reports and in their profiles to people like Frank Sinatra, with whom he needed to cross a word, and Floyd Patterson, exploit views as would the author of a novel. Sometimes as a storyteller, prefers silence his voice, to let it flow from the character. Talese
belongs to the stream of inquisitive journalists, interested in finding the dive, the voice, the accuracy and symbolism as a form of expression, to show the work of a man behind every story.
This journalist born in Ocean City, New Jersey, United States 75 years ago, grew up reading Hemingway and Fitzgerald. High school student went wrong and to engage in reading understood that theirs was the in-depth journalism.
was then turned to writing cover stories for Esquire magazine and then, go to The New Yorker, which published complete stories with other writers as an important career as Truman Capote.
His relationship with journalism and literature are said to be an inseparable couple and their narrative world, this kind interested in the little explored. An example is his profile to a forgotten former world champion American boxing history and a team player China Football Association, who wasted a penalty for his country was outside the world championship.
Talese prefers to tell their story. "The written about celebrities age very quickly. So I never wrote about politics," said the journalist a few years ago Robert Boynton. At that time
acknowledged that their stories are watching and I would describe as the companion of a blind interested in images of a film.
research topics catch your eye. So driven by his
work on the Italian Mafia, Talese has meant a visit to Medellín and Cartagena at the end of the festival. Last few days in the country to discern the feelings that flow from them.
In fact, his first book, "rides a lucky", arose from his observations while walking through New York, "The exaggerated" his curiosity about the quirks during the construction of bridges and "Honor thy father" a son of the Italian mafia had much in common with him. Male
elusive to technology refuses to create an e-mail account, use the phone only to balance appointments, for all interviews must be personal: "I want to see the people I interview, and I want to see. Everything is visual," he said.
not use notepad. Are considered bulky and uncomfortable. Instead, cut the cards that come with their shirts from the laundry and kept next to the pen in the pocket of his jacket.
To write better get used to using your pint, it has a habit of dressing in a suit and tie cloth to write.
And although the only barrier during his visit to Colombia is their poor command of English, Talese will be accompanied by a team of translators during the two lectures given at the F11 and a select group of journalists, including the writer Alberto Salsedo Ramos, one of Colombia's most scholars of his work.
"The narrators MUST follow such" New Journalists
sometimes noted for attempting to violate the rules of objective reporting. Alberto Salcedo Ramos is one of them so closely pursued the work of such who also wrote the profile of a former world champion Antonio Cervantes, titled "Gold and Darkness. The glorious and tragic life Pambelé Kid" , paraphrasing the book "Fame and darkness", the most famous American writer.
Their immense desire to travel and story-telling style, compares a lot with his "master", while for many, Salcedo is the "Gay Talese Colombian." In an interview with
Colprensa, Salcedo admits to read literary and journalistic affected his passion for storytelling. "Most people who opt for narrative journalism, we have been tenants judicious Talese's work. I continue to impress their expertise to tell stories based on scenes and great psychological penetration capability."
visit to Colombia of this writer and journalist, belonging to the lineage of the "new journalism" is for Salcedo an opportunity that should harness the "old guard journalists who believe they invented the narrative journalism and not just unaware great teachers Americans, but also boast of it publicly, like a grace. "
He adds:" I think the presence of these can help generate interest in a form of journalism that is it the last refuge of independent journalism who is kneeling on the side of the powerful. The effort made to bring the Malpensante deserves all the applause: it is something I had not done any means of Latin America.
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This journalist of 44 years, has unraveled the secret carpentry Talese. "Talese is a master to show the personality based on a revealing scene. But the best, I think, is that it knows how to capture the psyche of the characters, like a Dostoevsky's narrative journalism. "
THE CRAFTSMAN
Talese is also for readers. Evidence of this is curiosity aroused his reporting on public opinion, literary tactics of pitching Colombians hand several reporters and Sinar Alvarado Salcedo, Venezuelan journalist and writer.
Alvarado
not remember the exact moment he knew his work, but acknowledges that he learned many of their tools. Since then, "I think I gave more importance observation, and, above all, I seriously bet-the-scenes narrative power, taking into account that simple but valuable advice he gives Talese: 'Do not tell, show,' "says Alvarado.
A Talese called some hobbies. For example, printing sheets and paste them into the walls, which look far to see the development of history and can pass ten years without issue and it does until you are sure the message gets through.
knows that his love is in the details Talese, power and simplicity of his descriptions of nature with which he narrates, the rigor of their research and the ability to convert short stories, characters minimum, in stories of great significance.
"From him could say it's a kind of craft of journalism, a guy who can see, process and display a style that is unlike any other, "Allen concludes.
He is Gay Talese, the man who for more than four days left the gym, do not wake up in his wife's room at eight morning, no need to leave to buy the New York Times, or have to make coffee and bran muffin in the morning, as have dozens of people interested in listening closely and share their thoughts on one of the most complex professions: journalism .
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