Finds: Diego Erlan
After taking a good look at the shelf where he keeps his most cherished books, albums and movies, this is what Argentinean writer Diego Erlán decided to share with us.
The Adventures of Leónidas Lamborghini
The video can still be seen online. Look for it. It shows Leónidas Lamborghini receiving a tribute in the National Library. He says he’s going to read an unpublished text. He says it’s about two friends: one is Sexton and the other is Blake. A pair similar to Sancho and Quijote, but secluded “in a hole in the wall and then, within those four walls, crazy things happen” (undoubtedly, the phrase belongs to Leónidas). That’s how the reading begins. This text (which has two virtues: it’s posthumous and it’s extraordinary) was published some time ago by the Paradiso publishing house. It’s called Last Days of Sexton and Blake. The title comes from the poet’s childhood reads, with detective Sexton Blake as the protagonist, published in England starting in the XIX century (the first was The Missing Millionaire, written by Harry Blyth). Lamborghini comes up with a gesture: turning poetry into adventure, duplicating that name and appropriating the story in order to reproduce it in his own stylistic world. Because Sexton and Blake could be mad, could be friends or could be brothers, two Siamese twins playing a chess game invented by themselves, back to back. A suicidal game of chess. Two admirers of Samarella (an idiot for some and enlightened for others), an unhinged guru who comes up with a “Theology of Distortion,” whose thesis is that, in order to beat Evil, one must fight it with Evil. “The powers of Evil must be fought by assimilating and assuming the distortion,” Samarella says, and this could be its own esthetic theory: that of Lamborghini himself.
Finds:
[Rodrigo Blanco Calderón: Maten al león]
[Ricardo Silva Romero: Girls]
[Betina González: Sweet Days of Discipline]
The Adventures of Leónidas Lamborghini
The video can still be seen online. Look for it. It shows Leónidas Lamborghini receiving a tribute in the National Library. He says he’s going to read an unpublished text. He says it’s about two friends: one is Sexton and the other is Blake. A pair similar to Sancho and Quijote, but secluded “in a hole in the wall and then, within those four walls, crazy things happen” (undoubtedly, the phrase belongs to Leónidas). That’s how the reading begins. This text (which has two virtues: it’s posthumous and it’s extraordinary) was published some time ago by the Paradiso publishing house. It’s called Last Days of Sexton and Blake. The title comes from the poet’s childhood reads, with detective Sexton Blake as the protagonist, published in England starting in the XIX century (the first was The Missing Millionaire, written by Harry Blyth). Lamborghini comes up with a gesture: turning poetry into adventure, duplicating that name and appropriating the story in order to reproduce it in his own stylistic world. Because Sexton and Blake could be mad, could be friends or could be brothers, two Siamese twins playing a chess game invented by themselves, back to back. A suicidal game of chess. Two admirers of Samarella (an idiot for some and enlightened for others), an unhinged guru who comes up with a “Theology of Distortion,” whose thesis is that, in order to beat Evil, one must fight it with Evil. “The powers of Evil must be fought by assimilating and assuming the distortion,” Samarella says, and this could be its own esthetic theory: that of Lamborghini himself.
Finds:
[Rodrigo Blanco Calderón: Maten al león]
[Ricardo Silva Romero: Girls]
[Betina González: Sweet Days of Discipline]
