Sunchales, it has been growing without pause in all manifestations of culture. We see it and enjoy it. One of them are the letters. People who write until they are encouraged to publish are shown.
On the afternoon of April 30, in the “Juan B. Alberdi” library of the Esso N ° 445 school, we attend the presentation of the book “Las Nagnillas de Euclides G” whose author is Gerardo Arce, a citizen born and developed in Sunchales.
The presentation was accompanied by Germán Thalman, a journalist, with whom he had how his love for the letters was born. Arce evoked as a starting point a poetry that made him write his high school teacher, the always remembered Miss Celina Gómez, in that same space-library of the School No. 445. He ventured a time in the writing of poems until she turned to the narrative and flowed inspired by Valía authors, in the subgenre of horror.
The terror tale is a brief story that seeks to cause fear or anguish, for that different resources are used that generate tension, such as suspense, atmosphere and descriptions that arouse sensations of fear and restlessness in the reader.
The terror that Arce imposes is produced in everyday life, in common places of daily life, facts that come to unbalance habitual scenarios. It intends to mobilize, sprinkle, horrify, that, when reading it, let’s ask: Why did you think so? And we want to scream at it …
The book, extended by the professor of Language and Literature, Clever A. Marcelino, of the city of Rafaela, has a dozen stories that, although it respects the characteristics of the subgenre, underlies between the letters, the love, the care of the children, values that exist inside the author and that appear, even without proposing it in the fiction works.
Gerardo Arce belongs to the independent group “La Torre de Papel”, a set of reading and writing fans that seconded him in the presentation. With the ability that characterizes him to sustain attention, Iván Giordana, co -founder of the group, read an arce story that aroused sincere applause.
He was accompanied in that opening “Barbados SA” whose members are Flavio González and Alejandro Poletto. Mauro Lucero accompanied in the sound. The art of letters combined with music by giving the act a framework of harmony.
The emotion reached its maximum point when Gerardo gave his book to relatives: dad and mom, wife and children, the latter manifested themselves as the first critics of their writings.
Arce’s works are stories that will surely be well received in schools for reading and enjoyment, to enjoy the fact of producing terror, causing fears with the letters and astonishing themselves with surprising endings. The last one that closes the dozen, “Eye by eye, you will take my teeth”, addresses a theme of the near Argentine history.
As a writer I want to suggest the reading of this book that will surely be in the bookstores. So that? In the first place, for the pleasure of reading, to enjoy these twelve stories and pretend to be one of the protagonists, but above all as the one who prologues the book: “Alert you that you go carefully, because surely the stories can disturb you emotionally and they hurt you to the guts as it happened to me. And for the same way, tell you that they will not go unnoticed and you will not forget easily.
Gerardo Arce said at the end of the act: “Now the book no longer belongs to me. That’s the one who has it in his hands.” That is why I dared to write this column in tribute to the child I met when I had three months of life, to the impeccable schoolchroom, the young emotion search engine, lover of rock and roll, the man in love, father of the family, the silent writer who looked for spaces where he displayed his talent, until he found him in the lyrics. Today he gives us “The nightmares of Euclid G”. It is already among us. He already joined the cultural heritage of Sunchales.
Griselda Bonafede
