A chronicle of the earthquake in Chile
The earth moved unexpectedly in the early hours of February 27, 2010 affecting the Andean country. The author recounts his experiences from that night and the following days and his memory of what happened the morning of September 19, 1985 in Mexico City during the earthquake that devastated a large area of \u200b\u200bthe center of the metropolis. And there eloquent phrase: Mexicans carry a seismograph in the soul. The text is from John Villoro, who was in Santiago de Chile, in February 2010 during the Iberoamerican Congress of Children's Literature.
The book's title reveals the intensity of earthquake was felt in Santiago and affected the Pacific coast, very seriously the city of Concepción. The author stresses that the damage was not so much in the Chilean capital due to earthquake architecture. I understand that due to the civil engineering structures of their buildings.
An earthquake change almost everything. The de Chile moved the axis of the earth by the great amount of energy released from her womb. Affected the electricity supply, telecommunications and damaged the Santiago airport, disrupting flights for several days. Besides the devastation caused by the Tsunami. Change the way of understanding the lives of many who were there, living there permanently or while on a trip, such as the author.
includes the narrator some experiences of his fellow Congress and published after their return to their respective countries. He also cites a novel published in Europe with the foreboding title The earthquake in Santiago, Heinrich von Kleist's work published in the nineteenth century, dealing with the pretext of the quake, a moral fable. Such a hypothetical event in the seventeenth century.
feel that the ground moves, see the objects, walls and ceiling move is impressive. Perceiving that moves at 8.8 degrees on the Richter scale must be unprecedented. That is the experience recounted in this book John Villoro shortly. The issue, as almost all of Almadía includes a jacket that shows behind the mirror to a great ape, like a huge dinosaur, advancing on the skyscrapers in a metropolis.
Reading agile and intense. Of 8.8 on the Richter scale.
Title: 8.8: Fear in the mirror
Author: Juan Villoro
Editorial: Almadía
Edition: First, August 2010.
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