is an urgent need to import several kilos of marijuana for Chilean writers in order to awaken his sleeping perception. Allen Ginsberg, on their way to Chile in 1960.
was not easy. For a few weeks ago I was looking for stories in which Chileans make an appearance any drugs. Outside of alcohol, other drugs are conspicuous by their absence. Will the timid Chilean writers considered unsightly consumption? Below is a list of some stories of writers who felt that drugs were not always ugly in the literature. I refer to Delirium (stories with and without drugs) de León Pascal, because in another number I spent an entire column and does not deserve more.
If mind-altering substances is, alcohol is what leads among Chilean storytellers, and visit Style (1965) by Nicholas Ferraro, which is more rampant among all the stories making Chile and perhaps the world. In Style Visit , William sent his two seconds to ask the hand of his father Elisa. But I would prefer not to drink much , Guillermo asked the sponsors before they depart. Once on the road one of them proposes to stop and take one of pisco, the other convinces him to go ahead with the mission, the first to obey him and says, I would have liked drink another glass of pisco. I would have done enormous good. Better than anything else the world. Sponsors come home Elisa's father, but before daring to speak, they put a couple of bottles in front. Seventy-two bottles later I still do not get the necessary courage. For this story, the remarkable and forgotten Nicholas Ferraro, wins the gold in the alcohol.
The Living Dead (1990), by Alberto Fuguet, is about four assholes that accompanied the upper quarter of older friends, attend a secret concert during the dictatorship. That experience their first sexual awakening as spectators. Before arriving at the recital smoke pipes and take a bottle of pisco of 40 mixed with acid. The show becomes delirious and confused. This story appears in overdose sins of excesses of slang of the era, becoming artifice that pretends to be something natural. However, Fuguet was 25 years old to write these stories, that is, not a bad start. Then came Mala Onda, stuffed with cocaine, marijuana and alcohol, as a result of the dull life of the glitzy high-class dictatorship, which neither escaped Fuguet: Jeers the high cocaine did in the body.
and foreign Opposites (1999), John Paul Sutherland is a micronovela on four pages. A 17 year old boy escaped from his home, wandering like a vagabond punk falls in love with Axel, a punk thirteen years older than him. Unlike Fuguet characters, here the drug does not represent the existential void of the rope, but the artificial shelter for the homeless, the abandoned. Characters that when pulling cry, and when you feel alone smoke. Characters cry and heavy smokers. Interestingly, both teenagers Fuguet and those of Sutherland, the dictatorship they had better mothers, just because most or the slash, the other because he has launched into space. Ulises
Mardones (2004), Sergio Gomez, recounts the odyssey of a detective who is inside the La Moneda day of the coup. In a moment full of terrible portents, Ulises Mardones smoked his first pipe, invited by a colleague. The three smoke smoky and holding the breath. Look at the impact of bullets on a wall. Suddenly the guard says: This is the last day. Although marijuana is not central, the context in which Gomez puts it and the remarkable story structure are necessary and worthwhile its citation. Bolaño
can not miss on this list. Not only because his characters tend to smoke marijuana as naturally as they drink beer, but because, in my view, one of the greatest storytellers of all time Chileans. Drugs do not stand in the plots, but it is common for characters to use with different motivations or no. In Latest sunsets on Earth (1999), star B (Boland), talks to a bitch who ate mushrooms, another gives him a blowjob, and a third gives a damn smoking. B smoke, however, all this is irrelevant. B is telling the late afternoon when he tried to love her father. You loves her dad, says one woman. Well, not so, says B.
writer Juan Emar is more psychedelic, and Jack Cursed (1937) Lysergic the story more, I've read in my life. If you try to summarize it would be something as bizarre as a man is revealed infinite time, to form a parallel universe with a cat and a flea. Throughout the story, the protagonist goes through various changes of the senses. In the distance an old man smell, smell his beard, his gray hair, smells his rage and not reaching smell obscures the reason for this anger. The taste of alfalfa (two alphas, two times the Borges Aleph) reminds a drug proven mythological youth: the candiyugo. A stick that melt in your mouth. was something like seeing the tongue, the tongue hear, smell and feel for her as well, and of course, taste. This was in the brain an image of the world, of all reality, totally different from what the senses are normal. To the point of saying something like: "Ah, Now Now! Now I understand, from what I know now the errors of men and their inability to reach a stable concept that puts them in line with reality. Now! ". The last five seconds of this drug: merge the five new insights into one, in no more than one differentiation ceases, believe a sense, rather, the only way is to see, hear, smell, touch and taste simultaneously by a single body, and then you know, not just the reality, not just your relationship with us and with our understanding, but also and above all, the first cause that originated it.
Stories of Emar, originalis ad nauseam, are dipped in lsd literature. For the vast majority of Chilean writers serving the recommendation made by Ginsberg, not to Emar, as their perception of reality, wake up and delirious, is a visionary writer.
