Talented, controversial, bestial.
The writer and poet
Enrique Symns
died at the age of 77.
His health had been deteriorating since time immemorial.
"It seems easy to die, but it's hard for me
," he said in one of his last interviews.
According to
Sebastián Duarte
, a writing partner in the Cerdos troupe, "diabetes was his great demon, which disturbed him for years. And the excesses did not help, leaving a punished body exposed."
Friend and critic of the Redondos
He became famous as the director of the legendary Cerdos & Peces magazine
,
but also for his love-hate relationship with
Indio Solari
, whom he was encouraged to criticize like no one ever in the church of rock.
Before they were friends and
Symns did stand-up type monologues in the first mythical shows of Patricio Rey and his Redonditos de Ricota
.
And he continued: "Calamaro
and
a handful of friends have helped him greatly in recent years. Generous people."
Symns came to call Indio Solari a "murderer" when he fiercely accused the singer of Redonditos de Ricota for his attitude after the death of
Walter Bulacio
, murdered by the Police after a band show.
He wrote in his Pigs & Fishes, pushed by furious hurricanes of his mind.
"A policeman killed him but that repugnant guy was hired by the gang and the one who pays always has more responsibility than the one hired," he said in writing.
The news bounced on networks
.
Nacional Rock, the radio, posted: "We regret to report the death of Enrique Symns, writer, journalist, founder of the magazine Cerdos & Peces and stand-up stand-up for Patricio Rey and his Redonditos de Ricota in the eighties. Have a good trip, Enrique.
"
a beacon of the under
Enrique Symns
Symns was a beacon of the Buenos Aires underground and countercultural journalism.
Our Bukowski.
A piece of history, whose obscurity functioned as a outlet for fascinating vomits of high literature.
How could it be otherwise, he was the author of
The Lord of Poisons
, where the author honored his forked tongue by narrating his journey through the underworld;
recounting his revolutionary publishing projects.
It has been said:
"His ambition and lucidity allow him to put himself on a par with damned writers Burroughs or Hunter S. Thompson"
.
"I was distracted that night because I had managed to sit at the window table, with my gin, to watch the best landscape in the universe: the arrival and departure of the trains."
Anything that passed through his pen was interesting.
Pushing the limits was her favorite pastime.
Symns has also worked for Satiricón, El Porteño, Eroticón and the legendary Chilean weekly
The Clinic
, among others.
"The formula of the spell that causes his writings is the opposite: it is not so much what counts, but his poisonous way of handling language that makes them captivating," said the writer Marina Mariasch.
Enrique Symns in a bar in Constitucion.
Photo: German Garcia Adrasti.
His life included chapters of transit through prisons, drug trafficking, heterosexual sex scenes worthy of Rocco Siffredi, cruel tales, bursting stories and his tumultuous relationship with national rock.
"Thirst is what does not exist and it is what makes you feel that life is a single moment, that it comes and that later it will not be there anymore. Life is a very miserable thing, very repugnant, it is simply eating, shitting and fall asleep: nothing more".
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