Since I was in high school I started to feel a powerful attraction to literary works, mainly due to the fact that I had more exposure to literature then. Coming from a family in which history, theology, philosophy and literature held a dominant position in the intellectual worlds of various members, I became somewhat of a scion to that tradition.

In those days, such attraction was to be expressed by two main manifestations: interest in reading writers like Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Herman Hesse, etc. and the desire to imitate them.

So I started to write. At first it was only poetry and short stories, genres that would stay with me for a long time. Romantic poetry was a must in those days, and the theme of my short stories would largely have to do with existential issues, portrayed sometimes with images from classical antiquity, like Greek images.

By the time I was in college, I wrote some short stories for short stories contests, and in the first of them I managed a third place, which was not the best but it was significant on a personal level. After this, I wrote some short stories for a cultural magazine, published by the college I was attending. They mainly had to do with the 500 years celebration of Columbus’ discovery of America, specifically dealing with the conquest of Tenochtitlán and with the opening of the of the maritime route around Africa to India by the Portuguese.

Some time after that I adventured into the world of writing children’s stories, and produced the story of the dragon that you can read in this website. It was an interesting experience.

In the meantime I continued to read on various subjects such as history, literature and philosophy, trying to integrate elements from these disciplines in my writings.

Eventually, the project of a novel arised in my mind. It was a true novelty, since I was used to express ideas in a compact format, and a novel is far longer and detailed, as well as more intricate in plot. Also, characters are to be better drawn and with far more depth. It was a true challenge, but a very stimulating one, by means of which I could create a whole world, with a place and time in history, exploiting the infinite number of possibilities available to fiction.

I am still working on this project, and I have projects for two more novels on different subjects. Since I don’t work on them full time and ordinary life sometimes slows down our creative pace, it has taken some time to get where I am now, but hopefully it will keep progressing and see the light in the near future.

The subjects I am interested in to write about are historical fiction, sci-fi, futurism, and existential and social issues. Art in all its forms has an important place in my writing, by way of description, or by way of aesthetic influence. Poetry is also important, ranging on a variety of themes. The study of cultures and religions is just as important as it provides a real background to work on for the portrayal and analysis of many issues.

Literature is an ocean of perspectives of various natures: philosophical, existential, esthetical, emotional and artistic, to say the least. It is an odissey, comparable to the voyage home to Ithaca of Odysseus, to explore and unfold one’s way to maturity as a writer. It is full of color, sounds, thoughts and deep experiences. It is as well full of temptations, of alternative ways and even shortcuts, that will not truly take you to where real maturity lies.

Personal expression is not only a privilege, but a responsibility, one to be taken with the seriousness of a scientific researcher and the emotional depth of a true artist, one to be taken with genuine love for truth and beauty.

Writers of a new generation, and in such a unique situation as we have now, of a new century and a new millenium, bear also a responsability towards our own culture without this being a limiting factor in our creative processes.  Our culture is what gives us meaning, form and color, and it marks us along the unexpected developments of our voyages.  Mexico is my country, my culture and my way of life.  It will, of course, be present in every piece I write: in every tone I create, in every image I invoke, in every world I give birth to, in every sound I bring to life.  

Mexico is a country with a  strong personality, with elements as ancient as only imagination may allow us to realize and as new as our modern world shape in its neverending flow of development.  Great men and women of art and intellectuality have taken their life and sensibility from our culture during so many ages:  Nezahualcóyotl, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Alfonso Reyes, Octavio Paz, among many others.  All of them have given us not only roots, tradition and sensibility, but most importantly, the example and need for continuation in the path of creativity, exploration and inovation.

It is for us, the new generations of writers, and women and men of thought, to live up to the challenge of building a Mexico for the future, and to bring forth genuinely Mexican contributions to the growth of the spirit of our humankind.

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