ON CYNICISM, INDEFERENCE, AND NAIVETY
Presentation during the International Writing Program, Iowa, 2002.
Presentation during the International Writing Program, Iowa, 2002.
(Versión en español Sobre el 11 de septiembre)
I happened to be in the States, teaching in the South, during the attacks of September 11. I was still here when the war against Afganistan was cooked, decided and started. Of all the impressions I remember of the days immediately following September 11 there are two that match together for me as part of that internal, private puzzle, that is one´s opinion, one´s feelings about an event that has been regarded, interpreted, and often manipulated in so many different ways.