Thea Runedancer

“The fear reappears every day, while showering, while watching television, even when just drinking coffee.”

José Baroja kniha No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“The demons are always around and he knows it.”

José Baroja kniha Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

““I love you”, “I love you”, “I love you”, they said it for every moment in which they swore eternity and something more, to the point that it was annoying for those of us who were close, because, in reality, who loves each other so much? nowadays.”

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

“Contrary to what some might believe, writing does not generate enjoyment or pleasure in itself, quite the opposite; And yet, I feel the need to write fiction as if I have a feeling that I will find something in the middle of my narrative journey, no matter how painful it may be.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

“As a poet I am an emotional accident; a lyrical tourist.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

““Godín”, is said in Mexico of the office worker from nine to eighteen hours or of any other employee to whom his immediate boss says, during his first day of work and with all the naturalness in the world: “Welcome. From today, your body and soul belong to us.”

José Baroja kniha Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“Before becoming godín, Jaime worked for a miserable 79 mexican pesos an hour as a subject professor in one of the many universities in Guadalajara; very little for any future aspirations and very little for any present aspirations.”

José Baroja kniha Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“How to be sure that nothing will happen, when you don't always need a reason to become one of those cursed and deceptive beings, those entities thrown from the cradle of God.”

José Baroja kniha Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“In the end, finding the Truth will always be tiring in a world full of appearances.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

“Suddenly, as the sun rose, the poem flew without an owner, while he faded away like a fiction called a “story.””

José Baroja kniha Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“In my opinion, and beyond the different definitions about this literary genre or the absurd academic discrepancies about its constitution or taxonomy, the story is above all an experiential art.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

“Anita complained pitifully, because just because they don't listen to you because of your “small” voice, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt you.”

José Baroja kniha Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“Without underestimating the virtues of technical, specialized and necessary education, we cannot accept an education that eliminates the other dimension of human knowledge, that which motivates us to be more cultured, more human, deeper, more emotional.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

“He cannot stop imagining his bloody hands or himself lying mortally at the bottom of that bathtub, which, for now, serves as his refuge, as his escape from the World, from that which is outside, but which, Any day now, I could decide to go in.”

José Baroja kniha Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“She, perhaps, with a consciousness that many of us in adulthood lack or simply lost, would associate that so much water falling on our fat and heavy heads was due to the crying of some poet who was walking by.”

José Baroja kniha Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“It's been years, months, days, but he still can't get out of his mind those horrible, inhuman images, monstrous creations of subjects who look the same as everyone else; equal to him.”

José Baroja kniha Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

“After that “amen,” Evaristo discovered the faces of approval and fear of his audience, so he knew that he already had them in his hands.”

José Baroja kniha No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“I'll go out on a limb and say that that glow arose from his past.”

José Baroja kniha No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“For the reader, perhaps, this situation will be sadly familiar: witnessing, discovering in these lines, how in a matter of years, what was an eternal oath, had become something so fragile, so disposable, so insignificant.”

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