Latin American literature about the violence with an indirect gaze

Thursday 26 November, 09:58 PM Quito, Nov 27 (EFE) .- The Latin American writers live daily with violence, but their literature approaches the issue with "a sidelong glance or indirectly, the author said yesterday Costa Rican Carlos Cortes in a discussion at the Book Fair in Quito. Cortes said the levels of violence "extreme" of Central America bring their writers "to a certain inability" to tell "horror and emptiness deeper." Thus, Cortes highlighted that violence is portrayed in the literature of the region with "a sidelong glance," not directly, which is about "the horror overtones, with hints. The thought arose in the discussion on" Violence and Writing " One of the activities taking place in Quito Book Fair, which, until next Sunday, will bring together around one hundred national and foreign writers. The event, in its second edition entitled Fair Périphériques, meets about 80 literary activities such as conferences, debates, book launches and poetry readings, among others, plus music, video art and exhibitions. During the debate, Cortes said that novels have a theme background violent attempt to "rebuild the system of violence "that is" institutionally, in a great relationship with politics, the history and massive black holes with Latin America. "Although the literature says" not intended to denounce "the conditions of violence considered as a "writer's responsibility to" make "palpable and connect their effects" with readers. A similar opinion issued Ramón Díaz Eterovic, the Chilean writer and creator of the detective Hall representative of the Gothic novel in that country. Eterovic considered the violence in the region "has become a horizon of everyday life, whether in its manifestation" politics, street, economic or domestic, "which" any writer can not fail to move. "He stated that in his country "Very few writers" middle-aged and older who "have not addressed the political violence" in his work and stated that, as in your case, the detective, is "a valid point to discuss the violence." The "sidelong glance" of Cortes on violence also applies to Colombian literature, as it emerged from the words of Jorge Franco, author of that country. "It seems logical that a country as violent (like Colombia) had a lot of literature" that reflect the violence, "but it's not," there are not many books representative "of that theme, said Franco, who he described as" contradictory "that reality in the literary landscape of their country. He said that his country" almost none " of contemporary writers "is writing about violence," a song that left on the ground of "news" and the media. He said one of the possible responses of the attitude of the authors is "the search for alternatives to distracted from that reality so strong. "gatherings also took part in the Salvadoran writer Claudia Hernandez, who chose to make a statement of literary tone in which he recalled the harsh reality of El Salvador with the maras or gangs. He further argued that its country's violence in literature "as an element", "not renounce it, we talk about it all the time" no matter where it's from the germ, he said. Average (Not Rated)