Arroyo

Description

A diary is a great ode to the present moment. There is almost no past, almost no future. It is a kind of reconciliation with what is being lived, a kind of relief, an embrace of the contemporary.

Arroyo is the diary written by Susana Pampín, where Gaby, the protagonist, settles in the Paraná River Delta for an extended and undefined period of time. Gaby no longer counts the days; instead, she pauses to observe. She becomes absorbed in the different shades of green, makes inventories of birds, talks to insects. Little by little, the stream grows, and the reading becomes a wild experience, filled with sounds, with days piling up among canoes and mosquitoes.

Pampín unleashes that present with great beauty, like someone opening the door for a restless dog to run free.

Camila Fabbri