The writer talks about sensitivity as a flag of insurrection, his lonely youth, and the triumph of pop music.
At 61 years old, Chilean writer Alberto Fuguet publishes “Ciertos chicos” (Planeta), a book in which he portrays the youthful life he experienced in the mid 80′, during the last years of Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship. After half a century since the coup d'état, he wanted to put the focus on the night, the power of the homosexual closet and private life through the relationship of two gay boys looking for their place in a Santiago with curfew.
The work, which could be seen as the continuation of his groundbreaking ‘Mala Onda’ (1991), is written with greater depth and maturity. Unafraid of rejection from his detractors and with his mind set on the legacy that his thirty or so works will leave behind, he answers this written interview, at the artist's own request.
