The book The would have not exist, but it would have been nice if it had It proposes that proverbs and aphorisms lack absolute truth, and celebrates the idea that nothing is going to save us, said Alfonso Ochoa, author of the text that will be presented today.
In interview with The Day, The narrator commented that the title published by Alboroto Ediciones “tries to be a provocation about why the phrases that have formed us ethically or morally have such gravity and forcefulness.
“What they say is: ‘I’m helping you synthesize and summarize a life experience in a foreign lesson.’ The proverbs seem to say: ‘maybe you don’t need to think so much to save yourself, I think for you and give you a formula.’ My intention is just the opposite: I put doubts on your table. A virtue of brevity is uncertainty, detonate it.
“Microfiction par excellence, The dinosaur, by Augusto Monterroso, leaves concerns. We don’t know what’s going to happen, nor what happened. That open condition is inspiration for me in many ways: the possibility of asking questions or opening conversations.”
▲ Today he presents his book The would have does not exist, but it would have been nice if it had. Photo Roberto García
The author stated that The essence of many acts of writing is this idea of killing the father, of rebelling against something. In the end, we always have great truths above us. I insist, I am not saying that I have another one, but that nothing is true
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Although, Ochoa continued, not the entire book is about “taking a phrase and turning it around, but there are some already installed, which are almost in the form of self-help mantras and seem to have forcefulness. A bit of a joke, it is taking common sense to trial and saying: ‘it’s not true.’
“I judge or laugh at the case of: ‘all roads lead to Rome.’ Who said I want to get to Rome? I take away its gravity but I don’t give it a new one, but rather lightness; “We bring it to a terrain of ambiguity.”
Ochoa, who also illustrated the book, highlighted the work with editor Mónica Bergna.
The would have not exist, but it would have been nice if it had It appears today at 6 p.m. in Alboroto (Calzada Manuel Villalongín 214, Colonia Cuauhtémoc).