A hero who looks unusual
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That the hero is Dengue boy The mosquito was created in 2020, on the summit of the Covid-19 pandemic, when Dengue exploded in my hometown, when he exploded in Buenos Aires. Dengue fever extends Aedes aegypti Mosquito. This insect grows in tropical and subtropical climates and is common in many warm and humid regions of northern Argentina.
However, in recent decades, due to global warming, the climate has been traditionally cold or warm to regions, such as Buenos Aires as well as Patagonia. One of my best friends had been infected in 2020 in 2020, but since the center of media focused on Covid-19, the public hospitals in the city had limited tests and there was no way to achieve proper diagnosis or treatment. It was also no effective Vaccine or medicine dengue At the time.
In the precarious time for my friend and in Argentina, it is a US company Modern He announced his vaccine against Covid-19, a few days after the genetic Sars-Cov-2 sequence. This thought of scientific research bias about terrible corporations Mosquito-suffered diseases (Dengue, zica, chikungunya, yellow fever, among others) hundreds of thousand people have died for centuries. Mosquito, in fact, is a dead animal for humans and by historian Timothy WinegardHe has killed more humans than anything else in history.
However, because these diseases affect people from lower income countries, there was never a proper investment in vaccinations or treatments. Meanwhile, biotechnology companies needed months to develop Covid-19 products, develop patent and sell products, which gained great money.
So the idea came to me to tell the story of a global south pandemic through the mosquito lens.
Inspired by artists (Franz Kafka, David Cronenberg, Hideshi Hino), leaning in the most commercial commercial genre of Latin America, I was sure that the imaginary subtitle of my story must be “selffiction of a mosquito”. At the same time, one of the issues in my writing is a man who is not man, and the protagonist of a novel was interested in making an insect (historically narrated with human times, psychologies and stories. How to imitate and get empathy as an insect of man’s experience so alien, especially as annoying as a mosquito?
I had to become a mosquito, take his view. I addressed Flaubertian Famous Motto “Madame Bovary, is me“And it has become my own: Mosquito I am.
Ursula K. Le Guin once said The basic property of science fiction is to function as a carrier bagenabling ideas to encourage other scientific and technical discourses from fiction. Thus, the genre becomes a mutant transition (as Dengue boy is) between knowledge of literature and non-literary.
I appreciated this idea so much, because I don’t like anything more in my tasks, never notice than researching issues.
For this book, I consulted dozens of paper and manuals in Entomology and I became “mosquito” all night. It was important to know the details of mosquito anatomy and understand how his body works and understands. Thus, the protagonist is my friend, although it is a man, I found the mosquitoes that transmit the disease, which forced me to transform my plot.
The female perspective also encouraged me to investigate how the obipoic animal makes the mother’s care. Eggs designed by HR Giger AirbErnst hackel naturalist drawn and classified in its illustrated treaties, and Georges Bataille The story of the eye He also encouraged this ovophilic obsession.
In this novel, I tried to tell a story about climate change from the point of view, and I hope the reader empathed with my hero, thinking about it while I became mosquitoes and imagining.
Dengue boy Michel Nieva, translated He published the tail of Rahul Bery and the tail of SlegerIt is the last chance of the new scientist book club. Sign up and read with us many
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