Enrique Symns, a reference of “gonzo journalism” in Argentina, has died

Deceased Enrique Symns. The writer and journalist died today at the age of 77. During the last, his health has deteriorated very badly. In the 80s, he knew how to revolutionize journalism. Some of the most notable aspects of his biography are the books he published: essays, novels and theater scripts. He was also a member of Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota as a monologue and founded the iconic magazine Pigs & Fish.

“Cared for lovingly by nurse Nicole, Enrique spent his last days saying goodbye in his own way. He reconciled with his enemies, apologized to those he thought might have hurt, and showed his good side – as always – to his friends. And he wept for his absent friends or those who left before him. As if his true essence went against the cursed legend he built in his life. He leaves a remarkable written work (his last texts were dictated and precise down to the pauses, the musicality of the story, the power of a sentence and the length of the text) and another oral work (chatters in bars, monologues, sentences spoken like stab wounds) that it may be even brighter than what he wrote,” wrote the journalist and writer Rodolfo Palacios -police columnist in GlobeLiveMedia- at the request of GlobeLiveMedia Culture.

“Personally, he was like an older brother, we were together through thick and thin. Seeking light in bewilderment. He loved scenes more than typewriters. And what he said was so definitive that he could make you believe, at least for a moment, what he said: “I can know what you’re thinking now, I’m a Martian.” A Martian with a soul. People like him don’t die. They leave no absence. As Enrique said: absence is the worst sin that can be committed. He will always be absolved from this sin,” concludes the author of books like the black Angel, the puccio clan there No guns no grudges.

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“The first thing that awakens in me in this situation is a sense of respect that I felt from him. That, that: respect.” The speaker is a journalist Victor Pintos. “Enrique Symns He always respected me for what I was, a professional journalist. Too professional for those close to him, who seemed like underground beings snooping around in the profession; I didn’t, it was the other way around; in any case, he was a professional who also traveled in the underground tunnels. And he appreciated that. Surely he wouldn’t act,” he said. GlobeLiveMedia Culture.

“Maybe for that very reason he once invited me to see the country house he was living in, I think it was in Florencio Varela. A fifth? Enrique in a fifth? Yes, that was a dilapidated house in the middle of a park with wild grass. I went there with my brother Guille, I remember. On the way back, at night, we got lost. We did the whole Camino Negro in a car with air conditioning, what a start,” he recalls.

In Argentina and South America he is recognized as one of the contemporary literary representatives of journalism. gonzo (a way of standing up to reality and telling it in the form of a chronicle of total crudity, and even with touches of fiction). There’s a general consensus that nobody knew how to surf and narrate the Buenos Aires underground of the 80s like him. Today the networks are in mourning: thousands of his readers bid him farewell by remembering his texts, which have become an emblem in the art of recounting the forgotten flaws of the system.

After living for several years in the Netherlands, Spain and Brazil, he returned to Buenos Aires and founded in 1983 Pigs & Fish, the magazine where he developed his style. It was published regularly until 1987. Then there were several reissues, such as that of 2021, its great return “for the only and last time”. A special issue of 152 pages. A tribute to Symns, “father of the creature”, hero of the frontier and counter-culture chronicle.

They bring their texts to this new edition Vera Land, Ricardo Ragendorfer, Semilla Bucciarelli, Fernando Noy, Daniel Melingo, Maitena, Andrés Calamaro, Camila Sosa Villada, Adrián Caetano, Naty Menstrual, Fabián Casas, Mariana Enriquez, Dolores Reyes, Carlos Busqued, Bruno Stagnaro, César González, Willy Crook , Luis Ortega, Kike Ferrari, Juan Mendoza, Federico Bianchini there Bruno Stagnaro.

Some of his books are Invitation to the abyss, The band of jackals, Paéz, Life is a bar, The last song, The lord of poisons, In search of the assassin, Lost paths there light ghosts. He served as sub-editor at the porteño —where he started publishing Pigs & Fish as a cultural supplement—, under-secretary of satirecollaborator of Bugle, erotic there End of centuryeditor-in-chief The voice there On.

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