For everything in this story is unreal. Nothing happened the way it was suggested. Facts and places were distorted by that persistent desire to touch the truth by means of fiction, a lie.
José Emilio Pacheco Quotes
All of it is unreal; nothing happened the way it is told here. It was a poor attempt to help ensure that the great crime is never repeated.
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| Birth: | 30th June, 1939 |
| Death: | 26th January, 2014 |
| Nationality: | Mexican |
| Profession: | Essayist, Novelist, Poet |
About
José Emilio Pacheco Berny was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century. The Berlin International Literature Festival has praised him as "one of the most significant contemporary Latin American poets". In 2009 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize for his literary oeuvre.
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