In late 2008 Dr. Omar Lopez Mato launched his book "Monsters like us", which addresses the issue of malformations that affect certain people and how, in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries, some subjects used these people for profit in traveling exhibitions of "freaks." The book looks at all sorts of genetic quirks, but also abundant in other aspects related to the life of the "phenomena."
Mato López has written several books. "Creatures of the Lord," "City of Angels" and "posthumous Routes", among many others. But what interests us today is "Monsters ..." which flows through the libraries under the aegis of Editorial Sudamericana. "The book tells the very private lives strange human beings, to kings and Carlos II of Spain, the dwarves of Velasquez and Joseph Merryck, elephant man, "says the doctor and writer from Buenos Aires. "In the final chapters I elaborated on eugenics and failures, the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a master race and eliminate those who are not like us," he adds.
- Why write a book about "monsters"?
"When a medical student, I studied pathology in a pediatric hospital. There, a teacher, Dr. Mieres, had a huge collection of malformed that stored in jars filled with formaldehyde. Attend classes with Cyclops, anencephalic, anophthalmic and children with two heads is, as you can imagine, an unforgettable experience. Years later I read some books by an English physician, Jan Bondeson, who introduced me to the "Freakery" particular beings the world, displayed for public amusement. The issue caught me and deepened.
- How does this book with his earlier works?
- "Creatures of the Lord" was written ten years ago in the form of delivery for a newspaper in Buenos Aires. Although they were articles on cheaters, scammers and strange love), just freaks abounded. "Critters of God", my previous book is a collection of anecdotes of famous animals as Jumbo, Rintintín and Bucephalus, along with some insights of great thinkers.
Her divine titles are well, well Lord, let God ...
"The appearance of God in my title is not a reflection of a religious spirit. I'm actually more of a freethinker with several points of conflict with the Church. He had a fifth grade teacher called Grande, despite measuring only five feet tall, and often say stupid things to our "No creatures of God." From there I was the phrase that I poured into two books.
- Do you like oddities?
"I can not deny a certain fascination with the subject, but as a doctor I take them from a distance, as a body to dissect. I have another more fascinating: the cemeteries. I have written a book about the cemetery of Recoleta and am doing another on the Chacarita, because I want the memorial sculpture.
- How does not cross the line between informative and morbidity?
"Usually I take the side of humor and irony. This decompresses the terror ultimately. I account a number of inconsistencies and misunderstandings. Should understand from a certain perspective help us laugh.
-A classic of the phenomena is the movie "Freaks."
"Exactly. "Freaks" was the climax of an era, in fact was rejected by the public because very crudely exposed the lives of those that served as entertainment. Who is more monstrous? Is the beautiful trapeze artist, the Herculean strongman or dwarves? In an interview with an old freak show producer said, "You will write a book about them, I acknowledge that profit at the expense of freaks, but I've paid and they could live. You, would they be paid? Why not pay them, you also exploited. " The final question is who is more monster, which is exposed, which operates or who laughs?
- Why today are not displayed freaks?
"After War away from the scene. Why? One reason is the war invalids and the other more important is thalidomide. The man realized he could do monsters at a rate that not even God would have dared. From one day to the other the world is full of guys without legs, without arms, without hope. To this we must add Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl. Humanity is scared of what could be produced.
-Al final Who are they monsters?
"When one knows the laws of genetics and studies the possibility of mutations, he realizes that life is a lottery and you are born healthy or sick for random questions. All could have been freaks, but instead join together to exhibit them to laugh or held to forget that maybe we could have been in place. We are all monsters in one form or another. Johnny Eyck, a legless knight who was called the king of the freaks, was attacked and beaten by a gang of young "normal." Towards the end of his life saying "I do see monsters, look out the window."
Mato López has written several books. "Creatures of the Lord," "City of Angels" and "posthumous Routes", among many others. But what interests us today is "Monsters ..." which flows through the libraries under the aegis of Editorial Sudamericana. "The book tells the very private lives strange human beings, to kings and Carlos II of Spain, the dwarves of Velasquez and Joseph Merryck, elephant man, "says the doctor and writer from Buenos Aires. "In the final chapters I elaborated on eugenics and failures, the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a master race and eliminate those who are not like us," he adds.
- Why write a book about "monsters"?
"When a medical student, I studied pathology in a pediatric hospital. There, a teacher, Dr. Mieres, had a huge collection of malformed that stored in jars filled with formaldehyde. Attend classes with Cyclops, anencephalic, anophthalmic and children with two heads is, as you can imagine, an unforgettable experience. Years later I read some books by an English physician, Jan Bondeson, who introduced me to the "Freakery" particular beings the world, displayed for public amusement. The issue caught me and deepened.
- How does this book with his earlier works?
- "Creatures of the Lord" was written ten years ago in the form of delivery for a newspaper in Buenos Aires. Although they were articles on cheaters, scammers and strange love), just freaks abounded. "Critters of God", my previous book is a collection of anecdotes of famous animals as Jumbo, Rintintín and Bucephalus, along with some insights of great thinkers.
Her divine titles are well, well Lord, let God ...
"The appearance of God in my title is not a reflection of a religious spirit. I'm actually more of a freethinker with several points of conflict with the Church. He had a fifth grade teacher called Grande, despite measuring only five feet tall, and often say stupid things to our "No creatures of God." From there I was the phrase that I poured into two books.
- Do you like oddities? "I can not deny a certain fascination with the subject, but as a doctor I take them from a distance, as a body to dissect. I have another more fascinating: the cemeteries. I have written a book about the cemetery of Recoleta and am doing another on the Chacarita, because I want the memorial sculpture.
- How does not cross the line between informative and morbidity?
"Usually I take the side of humor and irony. This decompresses the terror ultimately. I account a number of inconsistencies and misunderstandings. Should understand from a certain perspective help us laugh.
-A classic of the phenomena is the movie "Freaks."
"Exactly. "Freaks" was the climax of an era, in fact was rejected by the public because very crudely exposed the lives of those that served as entertainment. Who is more monstrous? Is the beautiful trapeze artist, the Herculean strongman or dwarves? In an interview with an old freak show producer said, "You will write a book about them, I acknowledge that profit at the expense of freaks, but I've paid and they could live. You, would they be paid? Why not pay them, you also exploited. " The final question is who is more monster, which is exposed, which operates or who laughs?
- Why today are not displayed freaks?
"After War away from the scene. Why? One reason is the war invalids and the other more important is thalidomide. The man realized he could do monsters at a rate that not even God would have dared. From one day to the other the world is full of guys without legs, without arms, without hope. To this we must add Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl. Humanity is scared of what could be produced.
-Al final Who are they monsters?
"When one knows the laws of genetics and studies the possibility of mutations, he realizes that life is a lottery and you are born healthy or sick for random questions. All could have been freaks, but instead join together to exhibit them to laugh or held to forget that maybe we could have been in place. We are all monsters in one form or another. Johnny Eyck, a legless knight who was called the king of the freaks, was attacked and beaten by a gang of young "normal." Towards the end of his life saying "I do see monsters, look out the window."
This note is an extended version of an article published on 16 March in the newspaper Ultimas Noticias.
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