In all the devious tracing the course of a sailing ship
leaves upon the white paper of a chart
she is always aiming for that one little spot
- maybe a small island in the ocean,
a single headland upon the long coast of a continent,
a light-house on a bluff,
or simply the peaked form
of a mountain like an ant heap
afloat upon the waters.
But if you have sighted it on the expected bearing,
then the landfall is good.
Joseph Conrad
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Perdidos en la bruma
de un puerto amarillento,
armábamos
castillos de palabras y sueños.
Silvia Pezzini
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Just as in a stormy sea, unbounded in every direction, rising and falling with howling mountainous waves, a sailor sits in a boat and trusts his frail barque.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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About Me
- Sailor Hugo
- A Master in Comparative Literature (New York University), and a Bachelor Summa Cum Laude (4.0 GPA) Phi Beta Kappa & Interdisciplinary Honors in English and American Literature (& Creative Writing), plus a minor in Classical and Political Philosophy (City University of New York). At New York University, he has taught for the Comparative Literature and the Spanish and Portuguese Departments. In 2013 he published Belleza Terrible; in 2014, The Latin American Literature of the Neoliberal Crisis: The Emergence of a Postmodern Posthegemonic Heterotopy? In 2015, he published Occupy La Rive Gauche: R-evolution; Paris, May 1968. His most recent work is titled Del lado de allá. He writes bi-monthly columns in some Spanish-language newspapers. Also, a painter, he has described his style as "concrete expressionism." In January of 1988 he came to live in Manhattan (the Irish writer Emer Martin called his Central Park West apartment “the inside of Hugo's head"), after having resided in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. In 2004 lived in Paris, where he did research at the Sorbonne and at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.