After four days and the visit of some twelve thousand people who enjoyed the activities at the General San Martín Cultural Center and the National Library, The VI edition of the Buenos Aires Black Police Literature International Festival ended (BAN!).

With the direction of the writer Ernesto Mallo, the festival was organized by the Directorate General for Books, Libraries and Reading Promotion of the Ministry of Culture of the City of Buenos Aires, and had the support of the embassies of Spain, Italy, Canada, France and Mexico.

Between activities, The gatherings and conferences in Room C of the General San Martín Cultural Center and the proposals for young readers in the National Library stood out., in addition to the exhibition of comics by Danilo Guida.

It should be noted that this edition was attended by fifty national guests and eight foreigners..

for the last day, which took place on the Juan José Saer esplanade of the National Library, the Dailan Kifki Center convened young people from 12 a 18 years to a reading of police stories narrated by their authors. Among them were Pablo De Santis, Vicky Bayona, Horacio Convertini, Maria Fernanda Maquieira, Franco Vaccarini, Ines Grimland and Cristina Manresa.

the final gathering, moderated by Mariana Travacio, was composed by Daniel Silva and Raúl Torre, psychiatrist and forensic criminalist, respectively, who wrote the books Serial Homicides and Criminal Profiles together.

Both guests spoke about the ritual content of cannibalism (seizure of power and strength from the victim-enemy), of sacrifices as a way of transcending to other dimensions in the first civilizations and of the psychiatric profile of today's criminal cannibals, considered psychotic. Among other curiosities of the psyche they spoke of "hybristophilia"; attraction to dangerous people thanks to which Berta André began a relationship with a convicted criminal like Ricardo Barreda, after he committed the famous quadruple homicide.

The Mexican also dealt with mental illness, novelist and comic book writer Francisco Haghenbeck, according to whom madness is a central theme in literature, as important as the trip, from Alice in Wonderland to Hamlet: My grandmother used to say that everyone, poet and madman, we have a little.

The journalists who participated in the last day made an exhibition of chilling real cases that surpass fiction. Pablo Ferrazano spoke about the stories of three Creole serials: the long-eared shorty, Robledo Puch and Francisco Laureana; and in Unlikely but Real Crimes, Ricardo Ragendorfer and Virginia Messi recounted the cases known as "the crime of the model" and that of the inmate who posed as a commissioner to escape.

Enzo Maqueira, author of Electronics and Make yourself, made a portrait of a part of his generation: those who grew up with the imperative to have a good time and be happy, and discover, to the 40, a world that posits consumption as the only source of happiness. the happiness conference, falopa y fracaso sacó a la luz un tema que ha ido más allá de los límites de la ilegalidad. “Instrucciones para dar cuerda a un reloj, de Cortázar, puede aplicarse al uso de los celulares que sería la mayor ‘falopa’ de la época”, concluyó Maqueira.

El cierre de la sexta edición del Festival Internacional de Literatura Policial estuvo a cargo de su director, Ernesto Mallo, y la comisaria de Mossos d’Esquadra, Cristina Manresa. Juntos hicieron una conferencia a dos voces titulada Cómo matan las mujeres, cómo matan los hombres. By exposing real and fictional cases, analyzed the different ways of criminal behavior of men and women, and the differences in their defense strategies before the law.

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