11th BAFICI News

From Chile, Caicedo by Fuguet

Chile’s main newspaper, El Mercurio, published on Tuesday a dispatch from German news agency DPA reporting the presentation of Alberto Fuguet’s book “Mi Cuerpo es Una Celda”, on the mythical Colombian writer Andrés Caicedo, who was the subject of a round table that took place last Monday at Espacio BAFICI.

“To Alberto Fuguet, Andrés Caicedo was a sort of pop-Neruda: some people in Colombia recite passages from his texts from memory. Not only that, he could also be regarded as a kind of Jim Morrison of the literature, an incipient talent who died early thus fuelling a legend which has his fans heading on a pilgrimage to his grave,” states the report and adds as a special plus: “and, what’s more, a flock of freaks turns up at all the presentations related to the writer copycatting his glasses and his long, middle-parting hair.”