Cartagena Forever
"This book does not exist. Here there are walls, laughter, there are sorrows and dreams, perhaps there are hurricanes. But the truth is that it is Rulfo's ghosts who laugh, who greet, who dance merecumbé, who sneeze. And there are no pages or smells or stories or words. There is a clear memory that sees the woman being sad, the car dropping off a passenger. In this way, Cartagena is a catalog of emotions that return to the skin and bring back the setting sun, a furtive embrace, an unforgettable kiss, the full moon at 12 o'clock in the day, the street breeze that carries porro or that carries skirts, offices of people with briefcases, shade under the trees. Cartagena is here. Here are its usual warmth, smell, taste, humor, and love, every page that is folded is a corner, every photograph one more memory, a deep emotion, every word a way of being on the beach again, beyond the breeze, the laughter and the smile, every image a voracious memory that gives no respite, that returns, that lives between the heart and the senses.
This is not, then, a book of Cartagena, about Cartagena. This is the same Cartagena as always, the city that Hernán Díaz invented, the one that each person builds in their memory. Villegas Editores recovers it from the albums and, without any kind of makeup, places it back on the bed, makes it profound –as it is– and diverse, makes it a reason for reflection, a little beyond the beach scenes, a little this side of the hustle and bustle, perhaps at the exact point where we are once again with ourselves in front of the immense sea where the sun hides while in the distance, after the horizon, we hear noises of a Fellini party that tell us nothing, to us, immersed in the emotion of being and existing, of living again and here in Cartagena.
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Cartagena Forever
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