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“Arte efímero es la música pues se dan en el tiempo: se va deshaciendo a medida que se va haciendo. La pintura y la escultura, en cambio, ahí quedan, ahí están, porque se dan en el espacio. Su problema es que si alguien no las mira, no existen. ¿Y el sexo? Se da en el espíritu y en la carne proyectandose desde aquí hasta el Más Allá, hasta donde dé.”

Book:Memorias de un hijueputa

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Memorias de un hijueputa

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Fernando Vallejo

Fernando Vallejo is a renowned Colombian novelist known for his unique literary style and profound insights into the social realities of Latin America. His works often use history and reality as a backdrop to explore the relationship between individuals and society. more

“Entonces él se inclina sobre mí y rodamos enlazados al hueco del lecho. Su cuerpo me cubre como una grande ola hirviente, me acaricia, me quema, me penetra, me envuelve, me arrastra desfallecida. A mi garganta sube algo así como un sollozo, y no sé por qué empiezo a quejarme, y no sé por qué me es dulce quejarme, y dulce a mi cuerpo el cansancio infligido por la preciosa carga que pesa entre mis muslos...”

Sexo Narrativa Novela Breve Bombal

Book:La última niebla / El árbol

Source: La última niebla / El árbol

“No importa cuánto sepas, no importa cuánto pienses, no importa cuánto maquines, finjas y planees, no estás por encima del sexo. Es un juego muy arriesgado. Uno no tendría dos tercios de los problemas que tiene si no corriera el albur de la jodienda. El sexo es lo que desordena nuestras vidas normalmente ordenadas.”

Sexo

Book:The Dying Animal

Source: The Dying Animal

“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil. Without the stern, joyless rabbis and their 613 dour prohibitions, we might have avoided the whole nightmare of the Old Testament, and the brutal, crude wrenching of that into prophecy-derived Christianity, and the later plagiarism and mutation of Judaism and Christianity into the various rival forms of Islam. Much of the time, I do concur with Voltaire, but not without acknowledging that Judaism is dialectical. There is, after all, a specifically Jewish version of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, with a specifically Jewish name—the Haskalah—for itself. The term derives from the word for 'mind' or 'intellect,' and it is naturally associated with ethics rather than rituals, life rather than prohibitions, and assimilation over 'exile' or 'return.' It's everlastingly linked to the name of the great German teacher Moses Mendelssohn, one of those conspicuous Jewish hunchbacks who so upset and embarrassed Isaiah Berlin. (The other way to upset or embarrass Berlin, I found, was to mention that he himself was a cousin of Menachem Schneerson, the 'messianic' Lubavitcher rebbe.) However, even pre-enlightenment Judaism forces its adherents to study and think, it reluctantly teaches them what others think, and it may even teach them how to think also.”