the best.

Is difficult to me choose an artist, because I think there is not a best artist but I can tell who are my favorites… At first time I can think in people who their work is significant to me, like Violeta Parra, Jean Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Bresson, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis and many more… but if I have to chose one, I say my favorite writer, Ernesto Sábato.

Ernesto Sábado was born in Argentina. He was a writer, essayist, physical and painter. His life history is very peculiar. Big part of his life was dedicated to research about atomic radiation in Paris. He was very successful on his area and reached one of the major goals that could suck a physical. However, that didn’t make him happy. During this period, he had contact with the surrealistic movement, causing it to questioning his life and influencing their future works. Due to an existential crisis decided to retire permanently from the scientific area to devote himself entirely to art, specially literature and painting. He decided to reside on a ranch with no water or electricity for dedicate his time to writing.

Sábato wrote three novels: “El Túnel”,”Abaddón el Exterminador” and “Sobre héroes y Tumbas”, countless essays on the human condition. His first essay was published in 1945 and is call “Uno y el universo”. As time progressed into libertarian and humanistic positions.

Is very difficult to me explain why Ernesto Sabato is my favorite artist/person/human. I like his lucidity and his way to see the word. He always spoke about the human condition in relation with the social reality, he was aware that some things are bad, but proposes a new way of dealing… a new way of standing in the world. I like this because I feel very identify with his ideas. As I read his work he became in my favorite writer.

‎"Leer les dará una mirada más abierta sobre los hombres y sobre el mundo, y los ayudará a rechazar la realidad como un hecho irrevocable. Esa negación, esa sagrada rebeldía, es la grieta que abrimos sobre la opacidad del mundo. A través de ella puede filtrarse una novedad que aliente nuestro compromiso." Ernesto Sábato.

“Pensar no es un privilegio”

I think this country is characterized for sold itself to other countries and, even worse, to some people of this own country to get monetary benefits. Years ago, Chile has been selling their wealth indiscriminately… the water, the copper; only for give you some examples. Therefore, the new law about the seeds didn’t surprise me, in fact, neither surprised me that people who is directly related with the government obtain benefit with this law and business. This doesn’t mean that I don’t feel sad for all this things. Sincerely, I think this issue is disgusting... Sometimes I can not believe how shameless are some people who think only in their own benefit regardless if they go over the liberty and rights for the rest of the society.

However, there is other kind of news that show us that not everything is lost, and one of those is the master class that took place in Plaza de Armas which had the name “El Estado nos tiene en la calle” (“The state has us in the street”), that make an allusion to the current situation in Chile related with the education (or the less of this). This event struck my attention for many reasons, besides the theme about education, I think that was important to take own public spaces to discusses about our problems and make conscience in other people. In this conversation we talk about our reality and the problems that affect us, we talk about the need of a constituent assembly for create a new constitution, a new state but thought from us.

http://www.elciudadano.cl/2011/06/13/el-estado-nos-tiene-en-la-calle/