This weekend, the Buenos Aires Conurbano crosses General Paz to fill the Mariano Moreno National Library and the National Mariano Library. On Friday, May 9 at 7:00 p.m., the Mariano Moreno National Library (Augusto Cortazar Sala, Agüero 2502, CABA) will become a magical scenario with Rafa Curci and his book Mysteries Conurbanic.
Dramaturg, director, writer and theater of theater, Curci was born in Montevideo in 1963, but has developed much of his career in Argentina and Brazil. Formed in the School of Titiriteros School of the San Martín Theater and a disciple of Javier Villafañe and Ariel Bufano, he defines himself first of all as a narrator, someone who uses theater, puppets and writing to give life to what worries him. In this presentation, you will use puppets, a conurbano model and projections to explore popular myths and devotions such as Gauchito Gil, Gerli’s siren, San La Death, the Velociraptor of Lanús or San Maradona. With a pleasant style, Curci will connect the public with the “antiestics” of the conurbano, a territory that describes as a melting pot of cross -linked stories, where the adverse is transformed into raw material for fiction.
In Conurbanic mysteries, illustrated by nine artists – Marcelo Basile, Tomás Coggiola, Carlos Dearmas, Sergio Ibáñez, Javier Mattano, Edu Molina, Matías Muzillo, Diego Rey and Elmo Rocco -, Curci Teje stories that capture the essence of a stigmatized but full of life. “The conurbano has a bad press, but it is an exciting territory,” he says. From his experience living in areas such as Avellaneda, Gerli, Lanús and, more recently, Laferrere, rejects the idea that nothing good can arise from there. “Musicians, artists, scientists have left the conurbano and contributed so much. General Paz is just a symbolic barrier; we are all Bonaerenses,” he reflects.
One of the most captivating stories in the book involves Borges in Adrogué. Curci imagines an encounter at the station where a lost Borges, as a soul in sorrow, asks “Where am I?” When smelling the eucalyptus and being guided to his old house, he rejuvenates to become Jorge, a child with shorts, received by his mother and sister, before fading in the wind of the eucalyptus he loved so much.
This and other stories make conurbanic mysteries a tribute to the imagination that blooms in the province.
On the other hand, on Saturday, May 10, Bonaerenses Editions holds its last two events that combine poetry and narrative. At 17:30, Live land is presented – El Interurbano – Ultramundana, an anthology that brings together the three winning poems of the Néstor Perlongher 2024 poetry, with the participation of its authors Tomás Fernandez, José Luis Fraibstti and Luciana Maxit, accompanied by the editor Oliver Coelho and Ximena Talent, provincial director of Provincial Director of Promotion of Reading. Later, at 20:30, it is the turn of Diego de Fiorito, a work that promises to excite, with Julieta Novelli, Ezequiel Fernández Moores and Esteban López Brusa sharing reflections on this unique book.
It is important to remember that all the titles of Buenos Aires editions are available in public and popular libraries of the province, in free digital format on its website, or in physical format through its online store and in bookstores such as the Great Fish (Mar del Plata), Malisia (La Plata), La Casa Azul (Tandil), La Bullanga (Tandil), internal patio (City Bell) (Berazategui) and the other side (Trenque Lauquen).
