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"The capital city is the laboratory of a society that lives in the extreme"

JM Servin during the talk with this newspaper * Photo: Luis Humberto Gonzalez

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City Confidential:
chronic criminals, vagrants and others ...

By ARTURO GARCIA Hermandez
newspaper La Jornada
Culture

Mexico City's many cities. In all, one is more interested in the writer JM Servin, one that attracts me suffer and both a living in the red note, that of the subcultures that flourish in the suburbs of the outlaw, marginalization and impunity, a city that fascinated by many things, but at the same time can be repellent, harsh and cruel if you can not adapt and flow with it .

In this city where the population hanging from the rope that binds him with the criminal legal writes in his latest book City Confidential: chronic offenders, vagrants and other people without a future , published in Rafters independent label. Makes an eloquent title wink, affinity and admiration, the book LA Confidential, the American James Elroy.

- Has not been sufficiently told this city? Where the need?

"I have been, but its edges are too many to believe that already said it all. Has a life that becomes too rapid, even in the eyes of more experienced writers. Although he has been told, I think that for some time to date speaks of its most kind, has been idealized as a world class city, the level of Paris and Berlin, but it is not. Has both much richer and interesting to treat than the dens of the Condesa or Roma. From the marshes, from the underworld, from the perspective of leperaje, there are many things that are counted. It is a laboratory of a society that lives in the extreme and also wherein lies an undeniable social force that gives an opportunity for literary exercises as I am presenting, where citizens and writers are experimenting all the time.

In particular, "I am interested in urban picaresque, from common criminal to all those social fabric that has a lot to do with corruption and double standards of the Mexican, the contradictions of that part of town which says much about our idiosyncrasies. I watch as you would a pathologist or a forensic psychiatrist, I am interested in their view of transgression, of the underworld, its social history from the people and what has generated over the years, a society in love with illegality, the result of profound social and economic differences, with parallel events such as street vendors, crime, insecurity, but also through silence, chacota, indolence and cábula. It is not a government issue or another, but historical.

From the perspective of JM Servin, the phenomena mentioned are the resistance and self-protection response by the population these areas to the fact that the city has been taken from them somehow. We intend to sell that is democratic, but where impunity prevails and illegality because of the profound inequalities .

- Transgression in the city is thus a way of questioning the power?

"As far as maximum and minimum, it is always a challenge to power, because there is something in its exercise is not doing to relate to a more healthy society.

- register Why, why tell it?

-telling is more important to let it pass by. Are many important things happening which we must have a record, can not be only at the expense of the banality of television pundits. If a commitment have literature and journalism is to record the historic moment, its today, its here.

With City Confidential, JM Servin also wanted to recognize and value the tradition of journalism police, the red note began to be in Mexico in the nineteenth century, at the time of the Reformation. To this tradition belong Manuel Payne, Vicente Riva Palacio, with The Red Book, "and thereafter we have a lot of writers who have practiced this kind proscribed: Martin Luis Guzman, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, El Zarco ; Ibagüengoitia Jorge, Jose Revueltas, Ricardo Garibay, and Sergio González Rodríguez, authors have drawn on the red note.

In recent times, young journalists have forgotten that journalism, it seems demeaning, while one of the most brilliant social history of the country and the city has been written in this genre .

On the other hand we have the Populibros The Press, "where through such journalism written glorious pages in this city, through reporters such as David Garcia Salinas, El Guero Téllez, José Ramón Garmabella and photojournalism from one of the great Mexican artists of all time, Enrique Metinides. "

self-described writer and freelance journalist , self taught, which has sought ways to write only what he likes or interests in favor of subjective self-referential journalism .

- How circumvents the risk of becoming the hero of their stories?

"But I am, but the story that is always above me, I try to tell it so that the reader does not think of me, but I'm telling.