Carmen Berenguer, famend author through the Chilean dictatorship, dies

Mexico Metropolis. The Chilean poet and artist Carmen Berenguer, one of the acknowledged in her nation and consultant of the technology that wrote through the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, died this Thursday morning in Santiago de Chile, on the age of 81, reported the editor and author Claudia Posadas

Posadas, who made the choice and the prologue of México Plaza tomada: Poesía (1983-2020) by the Chilean creator, instructed The Convention that Berenguer was one of the vital Chilean poets on a Latin American scale.

He added that the chronicler “supplied a elementary voice in a context as oppressive because the Chilean dictatorship. Her work is crucial as a result of it’s a decolonizing, deconstructive testimony of oppressive globalizing programs,” in addition to “all these battles and the voices of those that should not a part of the powers that be.”

Claudia Posadas maintained that Berenguer (Santiago de Chile, 1942-2024) “is an important voice for our Latin American social and political conscience, since his first e book Bobby Sands faints on the wall and till the newest, Dignity Sq..

“He had a congruence concerning that uninstalling consciousness, which he additionally poured into numerous speeches that expanded the scope of poetic writing. He developed colloquial, city, baroque speech; “He developed the journalistic collage chronicle, testimony, cultured and to a sure extent mystical speech, in addition to very direct and clear poetry.”

The specialist commented that the Chilean lately completed the e book Hamlet“a metaphor for at present’s Chile, which is a dispossessed son in the hunt for justice for his father murdered by the powers that be, and a profound testimony of the technology to which Carmen belonged.

“That technology that fought for Salvador Allende’s mission, that noticed the way it was destroyed and lived by the dictatorship; who then noticed the concertacession and had numerous hope within the social actions of 2019 in his nation”, hope that was truncated by the rejection of a Structure to interchange the one left by Pinochet.

He regretted that the famend poet, an innovator of the Latin American discourse of poetry, “died with out having obtained the Nationwide Prize for Literature in her nation because of the patriarchal canon and machismo that surrounds that award.”