![]() ![]() ![]() I also find it so, but it is a reaction very visceral to the criminal policy of George Bush. And, yes, certainly it is dark, sad, and painful. It is a nearby future, of an eventual preventive war against Latin America. It is a futuristic book, but it is not science fiction. And that stirs in me a great sorrow, and I believe that sorrow is universal. The policies of the last administrations of the United States, are policies of war. Did you write it in direct response to the war against Iraq? Your book Cantos de las guerras preventivas (Songs of Preventive Wars ) is a story of the future – very dark, very somber. Here is my translation of our conversation in Spanish. Contreras about his fiction and the dark times it explores one peaceful morning at the University of Costa Rica, where he teaches literature. In Songs of Preventive Wars, Costa Rican writer Fernando Contreras Castro takes up the possibility that the United States might once again strike out against its neighbors to the south. Our dark age and a writer who confronts it ![]()
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