THE FIRE JUGGLING
Fire symbolizes change, purification, sacrifice, in short, a process of transformation and regeneration that culminated in creativity. But the ambivalence of the fire comes from his character, too, destructor. Creative-destruction seems to be the dichotomy that governs cultural events in El Salvador. Moments of thrust, intellectual and artistic initiatives with a view to change, the aspiration for socio-cultural demolish obsolete structures, explosions of creativity and poetry and art and colors. And at the same time, social upheaval, violence, unusual, pain, death. Is a constant collective death and rebirth. Its inhabitants are real jugglers of laughter and excitement. Some, like Hunahpú and Ixbalanqué perish in the pyre lit by his enemies, to be reborn in the greenery of the word. Others light their own fire in their desire to perpetuate a life ritual to purify the hatred in a society battered, bruised, and dating from 1932 massacres, disappearances and torture, a twelve-year civil war (1980-1992) and violence social, for more than a decade, mutilated bodies, threat traffic. But burning before planting, perpetuates in another, and the grain that dies, is reborn. Volcanoes and flowers, mud and shrapnel, blood and cement, desolation and irony, pain and neurosis, fresh or sardonic laughter, spiritual reflections, old songs are some of the raw materials of literature that will never die, but live within the limits of self-destruction. Monograph
coordinated and directed by Tania Pleitez and M. Angeles Vázquez.
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