![]() The author carefully cultivates the flowers that sprout from the disease. A book guided by the aesthetics of painful death, of solidarity among the dispossessed, of the deadly depression with which Lemebel tried to apprehend the ravages of AIDS in the community of transvestites and “crazy” of Chile during the eighties and nineties. Crónicas de sidario ”(1996), one of his most celebrated titles, recently reissued by Planeta. Covered by the feathers of carefreeness, owner of a strident range of colors with which he portrays transvestites and transsexuals subjected to marginalization, helplessness, the poverty of cheap makeup and prostitution, Lemebel showed his readers an angle of reality whose human and literary wealth he dedicated himself to molding between excess and tenderness.įrom that work arose “Loco Afán. ![]() His songs expanded the route that Donoso and Puig inaugurated and that would later be continued by the bold Perlongher. The Chilean Pedro Lemebel (1952-2015) is affiliable to Reynoso and Genet, it exhibits baroque tattoos by Sarduy, but in his chronicles books he stands out for a plastic and flamboyant language that is his brand, recognizable, I almost dare to say non-transferable. He was part of those who rescued a strange and subjugating light from the underworld, from dark dens, from the clandestine sexual difference. He belonged to a privileged lineage that managed to extract sensory beauty from misery and squalor. ![]()
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