I am a writer who travels. That´s the most thrilling combination of predicates I can think of.

I work as editor of a literary magazine called Gambito de papel, published in La Plata, Argentina.

My emblem is adventure, my flag is Kiribati and my purpose is Literature.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because I am out there too... On the Road, as Bilbo Baggins sang. And I need to meet my Beorn and my Elrond too!

Interests

To transcend the barriers of effability.

• writing
• reading
• traveling
• music
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

If I had to be defined in theses terms, I would say, with very little risk of inaccuracy, that my favourite band is Blind Guardian and my favourite genre German Power Metal. My favourite album, however, is The Wall, by Pink Floyd. Curious.

The book that carved into me the most was The Lord of the Rings, which appeared on my life at the age of 8. I´ve grown since then, though -and maybe that´s a bad thing. I´ve met Borges and Kafka and Sartre and Coleridge, and Cortázar somehow became my model, and John Keats illuminated my life with a shining view.

I can´t stand movies which portray bad actors playing the role of typically recognisable social and moral stereotypes: the good boy, the bad man, the wretched woman. I rejoice in David Lynch, Cronenberg, Hitchock (The Rope, my dearest film), Damián Szifrón, Tarantino...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Opening a Facebook account.
Then I died of grief.

Teach, Learn, Share

For what has made the sage or Poet write,
But the fair Paradise of Nature´s light.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Very soon in life I realised that the existence had to be much more than simply being, and that the first step towards wisdom had to be experience. I started travelling with the guidance of Stevenson and Jules Verne and Emilio Salgari, and I took me many years to emancipate from their authority and to start travelling by myself. It was in the middle of my course of studies at University (I graduated as an English Translator, among other things). In 2011 I went to Florida, USA, to work and travel with my girlfriend and some friends. The adventure was full of scams, plots, discoveries and eventfulness, and for four months we shone in the tropical sun, before coming back to school. So much so, that my girlfriend, Agustina, and me started preparing for the second journey. It was to Búzios, Brazil, where the marvels of the sea life and the black beans were unveiled to us. We worked, we learnt Portuguese and we had the chance, more often than not, of being happy. The experience was positive and it was repeated the following Summer. Búzios was part of us now. Then there came a Summer of no trips: dullness in Berisso, stranded from the Road. But soon enough March 2016 came, and I embarked towards Europe, were I was granted a scholarship to go on studying Literature in Wuppertal, Germany. I first visited Istambul, and long live the Turks, and long live the Turkish pride! It was there that I started my journal Letter to Juanita, where everything that has happened to me since was registered. Then I stayed in Barcelona. Oh the marvels of Gaudí! Oh the sight of the magical, the impossible Tibidabo! I finally arrive in Wuppertal in April. The adventures and the people and the setting and the events can´t fit in this small box. Be it enough to name those days the best of my life. From there, in August 2016, I left for New Zealand, where Agustina and some other friends were waiting for me. I arrived in Queenstown on August 3rd. I have been living and working here to this date, April 2017, with a trip to Australia of a month in the middle. Now new tickets await: to Kiribati, and from there to Fiji, and from there to Vietnam, and from there back to Barcelona, and from there to Rio de Janeiro, where I join my dear friends to spend New Year. Watch out, people, for I am out there.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, Spain, Turkey, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, United States