we have not yet recuperated from the disappearance of Carlos Montemayor and Jose Saramago, when announcing the death of Carlos Monsivais.
is a complete embarrassment.
For years, the daily mental exercise was to go to Monsiváis to know what he thought about everything. The precision of his words, the obligation to act, the perseverance of his work, the knowledge responsible for immediate response and lucid, the commitment to the Mexican culture are great examples of his life and his work. But above all, generosity.
was the journalist whose responsibility led him to witness all the historical facts and all social events (the illness really began when he went to Sonora to be close to the case of children killed by the Mexican government's irresponsible, no: for his criminal responsibility!).
put in writing all their thoughts, gathered an invaluable collection of Mexican art (which became available to the public at the museum most visited of Mexico), knew all the songs, I had read all the books and seen all the movies-like noted by Octavio Paz.
No writer in our country had such a breadth of topics, and much least had had the instrumental stylistic or the knowledge to address them. Distinguished not by luck, between high and low culture, and learned to understand our country as a whole. Many aspects of our culture that will have no voice, the silence of Carlos Monsivais. His work comes from Guillermo Prieto, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, nineteenth century liberalism, Alfonso Reyes, Fernando Benitez, of the Contemporary ... Hopefully not the last voice of this tradition.
Monsivais, if I may say so, set the Mexican culture, had words to put social and cultural phenomena, the broader view, the aphorism more powerful, privileged information.
And humor. The humor that helped us to laugh at the bad joke of the Mexican reality.
Everything will be possible, unless called Carlos ...
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