Do you also write? - Jorge Ibargüengoitia YOU ALSO WRITE? Illiteracy
emerging
Apparently, in the United States the number of people who have written a novel is monstrous. Many times, of course, the number People who have published a novel. In our area, even though the high rate of illiteracy that we have, the number of people who believe they could write a novel with the experiences they have had on their lives is tremendous. A sonnet is much more difficult because you have to learn to rhyme and count syllables. But a novel. Prose! is the easiest thing in the world. Just sit in front of a sheet of paper and tell everything that has happened in our life that is so interesting. The downside is that it has a time because we must work to support the family, taking children to school, partying, CRAWLER the head, etcetera. In fact, writing novels is a lazy job. But that does not mean that most people have an innate novelistic talent, or rather, literary. The proof is in the compositions did in school and dedications that we put on mothers. They were great.
This situation, to live in an environment of potential novelists, not frustrated, because you never have to exercise his talents, or failed in the attempt, makes people like me who does not do more than what everyone could do, we considered as a parasitic race, unnecessary and, frankly, very little talent, because it does a horrible job doing what everybody would do in their leisure time.
Moreover, this use to express half everyone knows perfectly from first grade, the writers made a number of critics have exactly equal to nímero of people who can read and write. The readers, however, is much smaller, because most critics are a priori.
- Novels, mine! - They say, and do not buy ours. Criticizing a painter or a musician is more difficult. At first because his pictures do not see more than culteranismo going to exhibitions, and because, well, that knows how to mix colors, which requires some science, the second, because nobody knows how to read music. These are discarded by madmen in our midst, is the same to be disposed of genius. But we, the writers, we are in the firing line.
"Hey, how can you tell me you were a writer? - I asked a woman with whom I had the misfortune to work several times in Congress" To see what day you give me one of your books.
have to believe that one has to walk advertised, and that the books are written one to give away. I never asked him if he was married, and if I found out I had a tortilla machine, went through the mouths of others. Also, never have occurred to me to ask for a tortilla.
"Hey, boss, when writing a really good book? - I asked a mimeograph who committed the blunder of giving a book-I mean, because that is relaxed. Spend a lot
shame.
"Your books seem superficial," he told a cultured, and of course, poorly educated, but my son said to have much future, and he is Argentine. It was a comfort.
But look how they behave to other professions. An engineer puts Mr. before the name, and when his wife comes home, he asks the maid, "and was the engineer?. No wife of writer
you ever wondered if any maid came and writer. Among other things, because the most likely not be raised, and because she knows her husband has not gone, it's in his room, in front of the machine, racking his brain.
A Mr., an architect, a Dr., a Mr. before the name, or a CPT following are a sign that someone has spent years reading books that nobody would read the motu proprio. But us? to write novels no longer required to read novels, which, after all, it is assumed that people read for pleasure. So in addition to parasites superfluous, we are hedonists.
to acquire prestige But we can not resort to the dry, because it would contradict the very principles of our art, we can turn to other professions, in addition to the difficulty of the study, have other characteristics that lead to respect from the public.
A psychologist, for example, is in society, much more overwhelming than an engineer, although more difficult to construct a building to sit half an hour to hear what a patient says. All are afraid because they think they will discover a defectazo. The mechanics of this process is that the ignorant do not know what signs will highlight what. The magic of the psychologist is that he discovers what one sees and draws conclusions that nobody understands. The basis of prestige is the misunderstanding.
This may be the salvation of the writer. If, for example, instead of having the first novel so, the account of the end at the beginning, repeating the same scene from three different points of view, removing the names of the dialogue partners if descibre a table like a landscape, a landscape as a table, achieved completely confuse the reader. It is possible that he never finished reading the novel, but respect to who wrote it.
From now on we will write well and to be outcasts.
First chapter of the book: "Ideas for Sale" in Jorge Ibargüengoitia
