Necrópolis Quotes

“chess is deeper and more mysterious than all of us put together; it’ll exist until somebody manages to master it completely, and that’ll never happen, Ferenck, it’s impossible for that to happen. Oslovski looked at him in surprise, and said, at the end of the day it’s a question of statistics: we’ll keep getting better, more intelligent, more gifted, we’ll keep going farther. Soon the great men of the 21st century will be born, or rather, they’ll turn into adults, because many may already have been born, and then we’ll know about them. The Freuds and Marxes and Einsteins and Nietzsches of the 21st century must be going to school right now, or still playing with toy cars, or watching the fall of a leaf in a park, who knows? And apart from them, there’ll also be a young Kafka suffering then turning to literature as therapy, and there’ll be an aristocratic Proust, who’ll portray the decadent bourgeoisie of the early 21st century from within, and of course the new Rimbaud must already be walking the streets, a young man with his fists clenched with hate, struggling against the social forms, and the Bukowski of the 21st century receiving a thrashing from his father and discovering that alcohol dulls the pain, and of course some boy of seven or eight must be on the verge of checkmating an adult on a chessboard,”
― Santiago Gamboa, Necropolis

“Todos los que escribimos deberíamos hacerlo de ese modo: como si nuestras palabras fueran para un piloto que lucha solo, en medio de la noche, contra una violenta tempestad.”
― Santiago Gamboa, Necrópolis

“Todo era muy nuevo y el deseo que sentía por ese hombre era irracional y probablemente enfermizo, eso que otros llaman amor a primera vista o, lo que es lo mismo, la intuición de que alguien puede destruirnos.”
― Santiago Gamboa, Necrópolis

“Las vidas son como las ciudades: si son limpias y ordenadas no tienen historia. Es en la desgracia y en la destrucción donde surgen las mejores.”
― Santiago Gamboa, Necrópolis

“Todo era muy nuevo y el deseo que sentí por ese hombre fue irracional y probablemente enfermizo, eso que otros llaman amor a primera vista o, lo que es lo mismo, la intuición de que alguien puede destruirnos”
― Santiago Gamboa, Necrópolis