1. Do you think it is inevitable to fear death in the abstract (not just fight against it as an organism)?
2. Do you think it is natural to be upset that we are not immortal, to feel robbed somehow?
3. Do you think it is normal for a 20th century person to be traumatized by “the death of God”?
4. Do you think affirmative answers to any of these questions would be sufficient as interpretations of a highly complex body of poetry?
5. Do you think that when Moreiras and some others attribute Arguedas’ suicide to an intellectual and political dead end, as they appear to do in part, they are falling prey to the biographical fallacy in reverse?
I mean: Arguedas said he was committing suicide for personal reasons having to do with his state of health, not because he was unhappy with his life or his achievements. One can say that this state of health is connected to his achievements and to some extent both fueled and shaped them, yes. And one is perhaps naïve to take all people at their word all the time. But is it not also naïve to posit that everything is an artistic, political, or professional gesture?
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 