Hello
Gentle Reader
It
would be very difficult not to mention the Latin American Boom and its
respective writers, when discussing the literature of the southern
(south-western) hemisphere of the world. For instance the late Gabriel Garcia
Marquez will soon be issued on Colombian banknotes, in recognition to his
contribution to Colombian literature and culture. However the days of the magical flora and fauna
of the jungle, and the rural and parochial stories, of the boom writers has
since, fall out of fashion. Though their achievements cannot be denied, the
writers of currently at work have left the magic in the jungles, and the grandparent’s
homes; while they reach the more contemporary modern and always consuming new
era of technology; complete with their own manifestos and literacy movements. One
such movement happened in Mexico in the nineties: The Crack Movement. The Crack
Movement blatantly stated that the Latin America utopian (magical) paradise, no
longer existed; and they had no nostalgia for it. They discussed the realities
of the dark political situations of their countries, not with parables or
allegories; but with the explicit language, grit and detail of the street. These
new writers discuss the changing social structures of the world, how we communicate,
the prevalent desire for urbanity over the rural and the countryside. One of
the Crack Movement’s greatest writers and champions of this push forward, and
to move away from nostalgic past was: Ignacio Padilla. Padilla would not be
considered well represented in the English language with only one novel, and
one short story collection translated: “Shadow without a Name,” and “Antipodes.”
Yet he was instrumental in finding his voice beyond the Latin American Boom,
influencing other writers to move past the nostalgia the magical realism; and
start describing the new age, with greater scrutiny. However, today at the age
of forty-eight years old, Ignacio Padilla died in a car accident. The Mexican
literary scene has certainly lost one of its most innovative contemporary
writers.
May
Ignacio Padilla, rest in peace.
Thank-you
For Reading Gentle Reader
Take
Care
And
As Always
Stay
Well Read
M.
Mary
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