Bueno. Una vez más, las dudas ramificadas que tanto molestan a los que deben (porque no pueden hacerlo de otro modo) vivir la cotidianidad sin sentir en sus poros y en sus pensamientos aquella corrosiva y constante sensación de incertidumbre. ¿De qué? De todo. Soy fastidioso, lo sé. Mis relaciones sociales no pululan, y me cerraron la cuenta de Facebook por tener pocos amigos (mi existencia no es económicamente rentable). El caso es que las dudas y su aplicación al circo social, la crítica, aparecen back into the dark horizon of my words. And the words came with haste to take his place in this area without space. The question: in this case my enemy will come, once again, the circle of chauvinist and ultra-Colombians (almost everyone in this country blind.) The subject is topical, and more than a climber will be speaking about his life although he never touched that mysterious and dangerous object called "book." This is the latest winner of the prestigious Alfaguara Novel Prize. A very well groomed Colombian whose literary opinions can be read in a newspaper well known in the country. His name is Juan Gabriel Vásquez, I think; and his novel "The sound of things falling" was imposed on who knows how many hundreds of novels of lesser quality. I accept: I have never read that book you just lucky to win more than 100,000 euros, plus a name framed in gold in the annals of American literature. I guess the guy writes well, do not think the reward Alfaguara a bad book. But here's the question that I will win nationalist separate attacks: Mr. Vasquez was on the jury of the same award the previous year (2010). The issue here is not envy or smear, it's about ethics. For more than cavilo and try to solve the thorny issue I do not understand how someone who has been a judge of a prize and that, therefore, has an employment relationship and emotional bond with the company that awarded the prize, can now turn out to be the new winner of the same. It is mysterious, I know. Perhaps, despite what my logic says, things make this noise when they fall. The problem is that my naivety I also said that there are certain things that must not fall, and the nature (at least ideal) will ensure a perpetual floating. Colombian friends: they can be proud because a subject of their land has won a new award. Uncertainty. And I had plans to participate in the 2012 prize with a novel I just finished. Now, do not I will. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I see ghosts where none exist. The winners write well, otherwise they would not win. But there are inexplicable issues that put into question the transparency of certain things. Well, maybe a novel writer has had or will have the good fortune of being in a situation so favorable. But I think such cases are very small. A publisher is a company and as such must increase its financial investment. Sales should recover the money given to the winner, and it is better that it not be a stranger. But why hold a competition? If profitability is the well-known writers should be spared the inconvenience of receiving more than 500 will not read novels. Moreover, should prevent some dreamers (how do I?) Send their works to try their luck. Of course maybe I'm wrong. Someday someone will tell me it was. Perhaps there will come a time when I will have to be famous, my picture appears in the media and say after winning a prestigious award: "No doubt, no uncertainty. Everything is clear." Anyway, I do not twist my arm. Hard work should be rewarded. And I can not help thinking that everyone, including those who have the grace to be recognized for their works, were once strangers. The road starts from scratch. So, more obstacles and spectra there, it is necessary to move forward.
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