LAS ALUSIONES PERDIDAS. DISCURSO EN LA FIL PRESENTADO POR JOSÉ EMILIO PACHECO.
Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama (Colección Argumentos), 2007. First edition. Paperback. 95p., wrps. New. Item #192095
ISBN: 9788433962614
In 2006 Carlos Monsivais received the Guadalajara International Book Fair Award. In his speech of thanks, he addressed, in addition to his career, cultural issues, including the progressive disappearance of a vast array of knowledge shared by Latin American societies (historical, mythological, literary, artistic, political, costumbrist, including the use of proverbs). ). This fading away, called by José Emilio Pacheco the process of "lost allusions," was the focus of Monsiváis's text, now published in its entirety. the lost allusionsrefers to the process where the characteristic of each generation, the forgetting of many references of what precedes them, becomes the irrepressible tendency to "retire" everything from the past that is not of proven use. The stock of historical and cultural references is diminishing and every day each one of us loses – almost always without realizing it – a number of allusions that were once the axis of social and personal dialogue. The great writer José Emilio Pacheco, in his brilliant presentation of the winner, quoted Octavio Paz's phrase: "Carlos Monsivais is a new literary genre."
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