Tuesday, November 26, 2002
It is interesting to notice that an important group of young Mexican writers work on distant environments, not related to Mexico. I am thinking in young and successful writers such as Pablo Soler Frost, which novels are situated in exotic and foreign environments, as ancient battles or European countries; Mario Bellatin, who works in rare ambients some located in Austria or Japan; Jorge Volpi, whose most successful novel is situated in Germany; Juan José RodrÃguez is working in a novel about Pompeii. I think in the romantic movement in the XIX century, when artists presented their works in remote environments, like Persia or the Far East as a response to an adverse reality. This de-territorialisation is helping to construct a new identity of young Mexican Literature, far from a simplistic and folkloric look of Mexican art.
posted by Salvador 1:27 PM
