j 'in ai marre!
Juan emar is a Chilean writer belonging to the period of the literary vanguards of the early twentieth century. his pseudonym comes from the French expression "j 'in ai marre" which means "I am fed up", he took this expression and modified it to create the name Juan Emar.
He was born in Chile in 1893 and, besides being a writer, he was an art critic and painter. He spent much of his life traveling from Chile to Europe and on those trips he was influenced by European art.
Contemporary Chilean writers to Juan Emar called him the "Chilean Kafka." he wrote novels, stories and essays and since I knew his work about 2013 my favorite writings of him have been his book of stories "Diez", his essay "Cavilaciones" and his novel "Ayer".
his style is a mixture between a deep reflection on himself and his surroundings and stories in which inside what he portrays as the world as we know it, there are oniric and absurd situations that seem everyday within this "normal world"
wow, his pseudonym it´s amazing, it's incredible that he took it from french and made a phonetic translation, with a good result. I think I will look for his essay, sounds like a interesting writer.
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