#Juan villoro

[las-microfisuras]

"La literatura es un lugar en el que llueve. He dedicado buena parte de mi vida a coleccionar chubascos literarios. Me he quemado las pestañas buscando citas. La frase es arcaica, lo sé. Es más vieja que yo, viene de cuando se leía con velas. Pero las pestañas de los grandes lectores se siguen quemando. Ahora se queman por autocombustión. Arden al advertir la lumbre de los textos. Apenas me quedan pestañas. Dirán que nunca las tuve. Falso: las ofrendé como ofrendé la vista. Una biblioteca es un banco de ojos. Allí están las miradas que han donado lectores."

Juan Villoro

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

2463- He leído toda mi vida, pero hay muchas cosas de las que no sé nada. Lo importante no es tenerlo todo en la cabeza sino saber dónde encontrarlo.

(Juan Villoro)

[hazlo-con-concha-nomas]

- Juan Villoro.

Adamo.

[ma-pi-ma]

Rimasi immobile ad ascoltare gli

scricchiolii della casa finché mi

resi conto che erano gli

scricchiolii delle mie idee.

Juan Villoro

[viecome]

Reflexiones. Juan Villoro

El exceso de información dificulta el razonamiento y el exceso de reflexiones, la sabiduría. Hay que escoger. Ninguna posesión supera a la renuncia eficaz. Bien entendida, la cultura es un instrumento para ignorar con conocimiento de causa. Juan Villoro ( No soy un robot).

[artistrybyarielle]

“Books are the external memory of mankind—a warehouse of memories.”

— The Wild Book by Juan Villoro

[alfinvertebrado]

Supe que lo único que me unía a ella eran los problemas que podía causarle.

Los culpables, Juan Villoro.

[hercoffeekryptonite-blog]

Él aprovechó lo que toda mujer se reserva para una tarde de lluvia.

— Juan Villoro

🖌 Rémi Clark ~

[radical-revolution]

“You can’t have today and yesterday, you can’t be at the same time who you have been and who you are. You have to choose. Happiness must be one. You can’t have the Sun... and the Moon.”

— Juan Villoro

[lunarry]

Paúl León was detained by National Police (PNB) officers in the morning of July 30, while he was recording peaceful protests in the streets of Valera for internet channel VPItv.

Since then, this 26 year-old journalism student has been imprisoned in the Carvajal PNB headquarter, close to Valera. Among other violations of due process, during the August 6th hearing in which he was charged with terrorism, Leónwasn’t allowed to be defended by a counselor of his choosing.

When detained, he was wearing a Vinotinto shirt. He loves the national fútbol team, he loves sports. His 8+ years of professional experience includes sports commentary, photography and graphic design, as well as being press attaché for the Trujillanos FC (football) and Trujillanos (futsal) teams. In March, he took over for a coworker who left the country and grabbed a camera for the local office of VPItv.

In prison, he has the company of books sent by friends and family (he wanted to reread Juan Villoro’s Balón Dividido and the Bible). He also keeps his most prized possession with him: a bracelet with a soccer ball and a scapular.

[lyxthen]

Extremely mildly niche academic-ish rambling ahead. Might wanna skip this one. It is long and boring

One thing that does make me happy is the Latinoamerican Literary Boom was so big it actually went on to be translated in other languages. There are still authors that I feel need to have their works translated (mostly women, I wonder why) but many of the video essayist I watch keep mentioning Borges in their videos, and truly I can't blame them because his work is rad. I don't know about him as a person but he lives 30 layers of post ironic meta fantasy or some shit like that. Cortazar is really cool also. In terms of living authors I really like Juan Villoro, his writing style is very fun. The Wild Book is a children's book about literary theory, like, Theory of Reception, Death of the Author, stuff like that. It was a really fun read as a child but the themes are interesting as well.

I feel like, I don't know, it's so hard to find Latin American fantasy books these days, or at least they are not as available. The YA genre is dominated by books originally writen in English or on books written in Spain (think Laura Gallego, which I just found out has a Netflix series made out of her most famous series of novels, but I am derailing) with the exception of Benito Taibo, who is Mexican, and has one (1) high fantasy trilogy that is kinda mid. The ideas were great, but they could've been expanded, you know? Camino a Sognum had so much potential, and you can *see* that it was inspired by classic epic fantasy like Earthsea, but it needed some more *spark* to actually work. I have not read Normal Person, but I plan to. Maybe it is better made?

And it's funny, because a book like Mexican Gothic, that was written in English, is so darn good! But only if you read it *in English* because the Spanish translation did this thing where they try to "neutralize" the accent and manerismd of the characters to make it appeal to the wider Spanish-speaking world and it doesn't sound or feel Mexican at all.

I am not sure where I am going with this. I have been discovering the local literary scene lately (and I mean *local*, like city-wide local) and it is mostly so boring because no one is writing fantasy! No magic realism! It's all kind of depressing dwellings on how we are being gentrified and indigenous people keep being oppressed by the mestizo majority and corporations and the goverment keep stealing the land to make Coca Cola and we are dying of diabetes and we don't got water and Capitalism sucks. LIKE I AGREE BUT CAN YOU PUT FAIRIES IN THERE OR SOMETHING. And I guess that's why I've never wanted to read Cómo Agua para Chocolate, because it is just *too real*, cuz it's a story I know by memory and I don't wanna live it all over again verbatim. Probably a great book, but I just cannot.

I don't know man idk idk.

The funniest think about this is that my favorite book ever (like actually, for real) is a children's book, written from the perspective of the imaginary friend of a child, and it is so gracefully narrated, and the characters so well constructed, and it touches real problems like Teen Pregnancy and Childhood Depression and Anxiety while also managing to be funny and whimsical? The very premise of the book (memories of an almost true friend, it's called) is already so creative and the execution is masterful. BUT I AM THE ONLY GUY ON PLANET EARTH THAT SEEMS TO KNOW ABOUT ITS EXISTENCE ITS DRIVING ME INSANE.

Where was I going with this. Ah yes. Youtubers talking about Borges. Well. Um. I. I think imma translate some of my own texts to English and put them on Wattpad or something. They are not the kind of thing Wattpad people are into but I gotta archive them somewhere and doing it on AO3 feels wrong since they aren't fan works. And on that note, I also wanna write more fan works.

Ugh I could be writing an essay but you got me writing a Tumblr post. What is wrong with me. I'm too bad at word weaving.

Aaaa (??????

Thoughts?

Help

I did take my meds today BTW. I don't know what is happening to me I just wanna WRITE ok I LOVE WRITING BUT WHY MUST I DO TUMBLR INSTEAD OF MY PASSIONS?

Oi I'll end it there

[white-fang-22]

¿Cuál es tu libro favorito?

No tengo uno especifico, pero de los que he leído y más me han gustado son:

-Los Fantasmas de Fernando ---- Jaime Alfonso Sandoval

-Corazonadas ---- Benito Taibo

-La Historia Interminable ---- Michael Ende

-El Océano al Final del Camino ---- Neil Gaiman

-El Libro Salvaje ---- Juan Villoro

-Canción Nocturna ---- Benjamín Alire Sáenz

-La Torre Oscura (la saga) ---- Stephen King

-El Principito (no podía faltar un clásico)

Quizá la mayoría de estos libros no son considerados "grandes" obras de la literatura o son de clasificación "infantil", pero para mí han sido geniales. Y aún me faltan muchos por descubrir.

[yoestuveaquiunavezfrases21]

1727- Una biblioteca no está para leerse entera sino para consultarse. Aquí los libros están por si acaso. He leído toda mi vida, pero hay muchas cosas de las que no sé nada. Lo importante no es tenerlo todo en la cabeza sino saber dónde encontrarlo. La diferencia entre un presumido y un sabio es que el presumido sólo aprecia lo que ya sabe y el sabio busca lo que aún no conoce. 

(Juan Villoro, El libro salvaje)

[gogomeaty]

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Favourite childhood book: El libro salvaje by Juan Villoro

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En la confusión mediática que padecemos es más fácil aceptar el fin del mundo que el fin del capitalismo. Cuando todo conspira contra el cambio nada importa tanto como el cambio.

Juan Villoro en texto "El futuro, instrucciones de uso"

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Crítica: "La figura del mundo". Juan Villoro