We will miss you
Published by Esteban Glas on July 19th, 2007 | This post lacks all category except for: personal
I ask my non-argentine readers a concession, I’m going to talk about Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine author and cartoonist. He left us today, aged 62.
Fontanarrosa was a very ironic observer of the reality around him. His acute observations were always brilliant and right on spot. This was a guy who, on the 3rd spanish language congress and amongst the most brilliant Hispanic writers, etymologists and philosophers, stood forward and made a defense of curse words:
I don’t know who defines what is vulgar from what isn’t. I think curse words provide other colours. (…) There are some of the so-called curse words which are irreplaceable, by sound, strength and physical texture. It is not the same to say that someone is silly or dumb than saying “he’s an asshole”.
No sé quién define lo que es vulgar y lo que no es vulgar. Pienso que las malas palabras brindan otros matices. (…) Hay palabras de las denominadas malas palabras que son irreemplazables, por sonoridad, por fuerza y por contextura física de la palabra. No es lo mismo decir que una persona es tonta o sonsa que ‘es un pelotudo’.
I will surely miss him and will forever be in debt with my good friend “Negro Gomez” for borrowing me most of his books.
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July 20th, 2007 at 12:26 am
La tinta, cuando sangra, nos revela las almas.
Hay austeridades repletas de sentido.
No se fue.
No se va.
July 20th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Fontanarrosa was an icon of Rosario, where he was born and worked, a place he chose never to leave even as most celebrities took off for Buenos Aires as soon as they became famous. We were all surprised here, in a way, because we loved him but we weren’t aware of how many others, in the rest of the country and the world, also knew him and cried for him. The city ordered flags to be flown at half mast (see picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/p.....859534384/) and all the major local and national newspapers devoted their covers to Fontanarrosa’s death.