"The" beast "of the book", by Federico Andahazi

May 13, 2019

The new column of Federico Andahazi for "I give my word".

When we badumed that they had already seized all the property, resources and wills for sale or rental, we witnessed the last blow: they also stayed at the Book Fair.

For us, writers, the Fair was traditionally this wonderful meeting place with the readers, the rare and privileged opportunity where the author gives the floor to the object of his insomnia, the moment where he, the reader, becomes the great protagonist of literature. They did it again. Once again, they succeeded.

They had already done it, when they were in government, with all the healthy institutions built by the whole community.

Human rights organizations, mothers and grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, civil society organizations that bring together communities, the church, professional badociations, universities, businesses public and private, professional badociations, public and private means of communication, everything, absolutely everything they touched has corrupted, desecrated, divided it, l & # 39; Broke it, emptied it and finally looted it.

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They have advanced on society by repeatedly repeating the apotheosis that Néstor Kirchner used as a ram to violate all doors: "Everyone has a price". He, his widow, his leaders, his accomplices and his addicts have always been convinced of this fallacious claim, which is nothing but a description of his own nature.

No, not everyone is for sale. If this miserable, diabolical and diabolical affirmation of antonomasia were true, there would never have been a revolution of May, independence, republic or democracy.

If these words that offended the memory of humanity were true, we would never have left the yoke of the Spanish crown, the dark night of dictatorships, alms and the crumbs of demagogy and populism.

No, not everyone sells. And this has been demonstrated, in its own way, by the public who attended the weekend at "their" Book Fair, at this fair of readers who resist by sacrificing it to those who gave this space to intolerance, savagery, violence and arrogance.

Last Thursday, we were overwhelmed by the violent ones. You know that Radio Miter broadcasts a lot of its programming since the book fair. This is true for a long time, it is a healthy tradition that unites those who speak with those who listen, those who write with those who read.

All, journalists, advertisers, columnists, listeners, writers and readers complete the perfect circle of radio at the Fair. But on Thursday, this wonderful circle is broken. Already, a few days before the presentation of this device that some call, breathed an air of intolerance and hostility.

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On Wednesday night, when I left the radio, I found, inside and outside the fair, a group of misguided militants who were all wearing shirts. black with the legend "Gustavo Menéndez", carried flags, they came and came from microphones rented by some municipalities and were preparing to storm the property.

One of them followed me as he was leaving and stood next to me defiantly, while I put the bike back in order to go home. For the first time since I worked on this radio and since I went to Miter's studio at the Fair, we had to stop the transmission with the help of the microphones installed at the fair.

I said on the air: "The organization of the Book Fair does not offer us the minimum security conditions."

Unfortunately, I was not wrong. The demonstration of arrogance, violence, hatred, fury and lack of control that was seen on Thursday, never before, like never before, was unleashed in this way. Under Kirchnerism, it is true, the foundations have been laid for this to happen. The crooks to the writers, the bars that were intended to silence the perpetrators were an essay of violence that was seen on Thursday.

Everything, absolutely everything, was a succession of outrages against ours and foreigners. In the name of a national and popular act, only the same slap that animated speeches on the patio of palm trees could enter the room.

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The common people, whom Cristina Kirchner has always despised, must have seen the scene outside, in the street, in the rain, in the middle of the cold, under the stars. Thus, as the oldest oligarchy progressed, ordinary people remained outside underwater, in the mud, and the aristocracy settled in the warmth of the halls of the Argentine Rural Society.

Kirchnerism has never tried to change the social order. From the most rustic of resentments, they simply wanted to occupy the seat of the oligarchy and leave the rest outside in the rain, living on the crumbs of the banquet. What we saw on Thursday was kirchnerism in its purest form.

Wild aggression against Maru Duffard is the most amazing act seen at the Book Fair, suddenly transformed into a beast of the book: three hundred people insulting, shouting, spitting, pulling the hair of a girl with no other weapon than that of a microphone and a smile in front of a crowd ready to hit.

What tragedy has devastated Argentina between the pages of Facundo, Sarmiento, and the empty, frivolous and megalomaniac words of this artifact that can only be described as a book because it has leaves, a blanket and a back cover?

The little, the only thing that remains to us is the dignity, the books, the literature, this land in which the writers usually exile themselves when the reality becomes more intolerable than the fiction. This territory, this homeland belonging to the readers and the authors does not want to give it to anyone.