Post by account_disabled on Jan 29, 2024 5:11:07 GMT
Works by Marx and other socialist theorists burned for 14 hours , along with technical books and fictional literature. Among the books burned were those of the poet Pablo Neruda , Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1971) and object of persecution by the military due to his communist militancy. Neruda died that same September 23. The poet suffered from cancer, but to this day there are doubts about a possible murder by poisoning. One of the first objectives of the military was the Editorial Nacional Quimantú , created in 1971 by the Allende government and which was very successful as an experience in the democratization of knowledge. During its three years of life, it facilitated access to books with production and distribution policies that lowered publishing and sales costs.
The publisher's policy was simple and revolutionary: the book could not cost more than a pack of Hilton cigarettes, a very popular tobacco brand at the time in Chile, which had been the first to launch filtered cigarettes. Quimantú Phone Number Database published 25 books a month and had circulations of up to 80,000 copies. The books reached all corners of the country where access to reading was scarce before. The books were sold even in unions and newsstands located in places with a lot of student and worker traffic. Days before the coup, the then young Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño , who had lived in Mexico since he was 15, arrived in Santiago to work at the publishing house . The coup frustrated his reintegration into Chile and, after a brief detention, he returned to Mexico.
With the coup, the publishing house closed and his books were confiscated. September 11, 1973: Pinochet's betrayal “Cultural sanitation” was also aesthetic. There was a physical or symbolic occupation of public cultural spaces such as the Museum of Fine Arts of Santiago. Gonzalo Leiva , professor of Aesthetics and co-author with Luis Errázuriz of the book The aesthetic coup , recalls in an interview with the digital newspaper El Mostrador: “There is a very dramatic case, which is that of Paulina Waugh 's gallery . It was the first private gallery in Chile and it was burned because it had paintings by Matta, who had publicly declared his disapproval of the regime. "There is no symbolic violence here, it is direct violence." Roberto Matta , who died in 2002, was the last of the great Chilean surrealist painters and supported the Allende government.
The publisher's policy was simple and revolutionary: the book could not cost more than a pack of Hilton cigarettes, a very popular tobacco brand at the time in Chile, which had been the first to launch filtered cigarettes. Quimantú Phone Number Database published 25 books a month and had circulations of up to 80,000 copies. The books reached all corners of the country where access to reading was scarce before. The books were sold even in unions and newsstands located in places with a lot of student and worker traffic. Days before the coup, the then young Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño , who had lived in Mexico since he was 15, arrived in Santiago to work at the publishing house . The coup frustrated his reintegration into Chile and, after a brief detention, he returned to Mexico.
With the coup, the publishing house closed and his books were confiscated. September 11, 1973: Pinochet's betrayal “Cultural sanitation” was also aesthetic. There was a physical or symbolic occupation of public cultural spaces such as the Museum of Fine Arts of Santiago. Gonzalo Leiva , professor of Aesthetics and co-author with Luis Errázuriz of the book The aesthetic coup , recalls in an interview with the digital newspaper El Mostrador: “There is a very dramatic case, which is that of Paulina Waugh 's gallery . It was the first private gallery in Chile and it was burned because it had paintings by Matta, who had publicly declared his disapproval of the regime. "There is no symbolic violence here, it is direct violence." Roberto Matta , who died in 2002, was the last of the great Chilean surrealist painters and supported the Allende government.