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	Fernando Vallejo’s La virgen de los sicarios: Otherness as Dystopia
		La virgen is that the author is actually pursuing the opposite of such a tenet.(5) In Vallejo’s text, the perception of the city as a degenerate likelihood is replaced by the actuality of Medellín’s present, which consequentially places the novel in a singular position regarding the very status of dystopic narratives as prophetic visions.
		And it is precisely in the recognition of the past as an imperfect and aleatory construction that the author asserts the story of his partially autobiographical protagonist as a type of historicity, seeking to destabilize traditional historical discourses on the premises of the novel’s ambiguity as fiction and one’s subjectivity in the account of history.
		Fernando’s depiction of reality repeating itself could be reviewed either as a poetic instance or as a rhetorical principle of relating the past as a deficient memorial construct.
	www.lehman.cuny.edu /ciberletras/v15/barros.html (3969 words)

	El Pais - Cali Colombia fernando, vallejo, escritor, visita Fernando Vallejo en Colombia
		Fernando Vallejo ha vuelto a Colombia para decir que no condena a los sacerdotes acusados de pederastia porque ahora los persiguen como antes persiguieron a las brujas.
		Fernando Vallejo dictará mañana sábado, a las 6:30 de la tarde, en el Gimnasio Moderno, de Bogotá, la conferencia titulada ‘El lejano país de Rufino José Cuervo’.
		Vallejo es el mejor escritor de colombia en este momento, aparte que cumple la funcion de abrir los ojos de la gente, bien por el, los ignorantes que sigan con sus...
	www.elpais.com.co /paisonline/notas/Octubre262006/vallejo.html (885 words)

	Our Lady of the Assassins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		If Vallejo, a jaded chronicler of a train-wreck who has no connection to the evolving horror, is the projection of a first world consciousness observing the travails of a disintegrating third world, the greatest irony of the failure and success of the film is in its own triumphant disconnection.
		The symbols are heavy-handed: Vallejo lives in the empty apartment of his dead sister, he calls himself the "last grammarian," and he euthanizes a dog in the middle of a rushing stream and howls at the inequity of the universe.
		Glued to Vallejo's side by what passes for love in a centerless world, Alexis is incapable of the self-examination and metaphorical maundering that constitutes the whole of his older lover's paradigm.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/ourladyoftheassassins.htm (713 words)

	01Oct22c Article written
		Vallejo, in the guise of Fernando-- a middle-aged writer coming home, he says, "to die"-- pulls us in on a nihilistic tour of what had been a pretty provincial city, now in a moral free-fall.
		Fernando's anguish about the degeneration of his country is palpable, the more so because he sees in his exterminating angel the embodiment of and solution to its problems.
		He described Vallejo as "the same as the character in the movie, dressed the same, doing the same things, exactly the same person." At one point, in a hallucinatory sequence, the movie shows us Vallejo's full name on a crypt, making it clear the protagonist and the author are one.
	www.ipce.info /ipceweb/Library/01oct22c_killers_in_love.htm (1442 words)

	Our Lady of the Assassins
		Fernando is shocked one morning as he crosses the street and witnesses a man killed, literally at his feet, for refusing to turn over his car keys, an act Alexis dismisses as stupid.
		Fernando, as close as I can figure, is a writer of some fame and fortune returning home, as he puts it, to die.
		Fernando is an enigma as a man returning home to a world that is completely different from the one he left so long ago.
	www.reelingreviews.com /ourladyoftheassassins.htm (1322 words)

	Vallejo on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Vallejo is one of the fastest-growing U.S. cities, marked by a population increase of 36% between 1980 and 1990.
		Vallejo was founded in 1851 as the intended state capital, but was the nominal capital only from 1852 to 1853.
		Lamentable pérdida.(Antonio Buero Vallejo, dramaturgo)(TT: A lamentable loss.)(TA: Antonio Buero Vallejo, playwright)(Artículo Breve)(Obituario)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/V/Vallejo.asp (860 words)

	Fabián Balmori - Paradigmas de violencia en El desbarrancadero de Fernando Vallejo
		La novela del escritor colombiano Fernando Vallejo describe la caída grotesca de una familia que se desmorona dentro de la abyección de la vida del ser humano.
		Fernando desprecia la hipocresía de una entidad segun él traisionera que se aprovecha de la debilidad de sus súbditos y fanáticos para pretender crear una sociedad de bien, aun cuando ellos mismos no se rijan ni crean en el bien que profesan.
		Vallejo, sumergido en un cinismo foucaltiano, dibuja con palabras una imagen grotesca y oscura de la vida moderna.
	www.sinc.sunysb.edu /Publish/hiper/num8/Articulos/balmori.htm (2224 words)

	Our Lady of the Assassins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Fernando (Germán Jaramillo) is a writer who has returned home, he says, to die: "I’ve lived more than enough," he explains, with more than a touch of self-conscious grandiosity.
		When Fernando first takes Alexis home — to an apartment recently vacated by Fernando’s dead sister — the place is practically bare, but as Alexis makes further demands of his sugar daddy, it begins to fill up with electronic noisemakers, all of which Alexis turns on at the same time.
		Fernando’s learned this lesson well enough that when Alexis is gunned down, he’s replaced as well, by Wilmar (Juan David Restrepo), whom Fernando initially picks off the street because he’s wearing a jacket that looks like one Alexis used to wear.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/o/ourladyoftheassassins.shtml (729 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: La Virgen De Los Sicarios/our Lady of the Assassins
		Vallejo crea imagenes sangrientos, desesperados, feos y sin soluciýn, pero lo mas sorprendente son los imagenes que no sean exagerados sino todo verdadero: saltando los cadýveres de jývenes de 12 a 17 aýos; el fuego artificial para celebrar el transporte de drogas y el circulo de venganza de una generaciýn a otra.
		Fernando, el narrador, un gramýtico de mediana edad, a quien le atraen los hombres jývenes, conoce a Alexis en el cuarto de las mariposas, un antro de encuentros ýntimos.
		Fernando odia los humanos pobres, que sýlo sirven para copular y parir, pero ama a los animales al grado que es capaz de matar a un perro herido para que ya no sufra, pero los mýltiples asesinatos cometidos por sus amantes sicarios y de los cuales ýl es testigo, son motivos de indiferencia.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=846630164X (991 words)

	UN HUAPITÍ PARA FERNANDO VALLEJO
		Fernando Vallejo es, más bien, un hombre con una capacidad de observación envidiable, un escritor que se transforma con la misma facilidad en biógrafo de excepción o en crítico despiadado.
		Fernando Vallejo hace tinta de la sangre, memoria de la experiencia y literatura de la deformación de la memoria.
		Al escribir Vallejo encuentra, entonces, un desgarramiento que lo arrastra hacia adentro, muy al fondo de su memoria, para tratar de dar sentido al viaje, a la aventura interna que lo hace extranjero en cualquier parte del mundo.
	www.revistanumero.com /16huapi.htm (2960 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Our Lady of the Assassins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Vallejo has inherited a high rise apartment from his sister and seems to have plenty of money to spend.
		In one of the most macabre moments of the film, Fernando learns that some of the gang assassins ask St. Jude to bless the bullets that are used to cut down their enemies.
		Eventually Fernando goes to the slums of Santo Domingo Savio and sees for himself the prison of poverty where Alexis was born and raised.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_3268.html (426 words)

	Our Lady of the Assassins
		Fernando Vallejo (German Jaramillo) is a writer who has returned to his country of origin after being away for more than 20 years.
		When he sees a spectacular display of fireworks going off, Fernando asks his young lover Alexis (Anderson Ballesteros) what holiday it is. To his surprise he learns that it's the drug lords celebrating a shipment of cocaine that has successfully crossed the border into the United States.
		It should be noted that this event was not included in the autobiography on which the film is partially based, and though the fireworks were not in the book, it is indeed a fact that director Barbet Schroeder knew would add to the texture of the film.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /2000/id1021.htm (977 words)

	fernando vallejo
		Fernando Vallejo: Hombre, esa es una pregunta que se hace siempre todo lector.
		Fernando Vallejo: La opinión que tengo con absoluta claridad ahora, cuando ya voy de salida de todo, es que nadie tiene derecho a imponer la existencia, que tener hijos es el crimen máximo, nadie tiene derecho a sacar al que no lo está pidiendo de la paz de la nada.
		Fernando Vallejo: Yo la vida le he ido llenando paso a paso y tengo proyectos siempre a muy corto término.
	www.clubdelibros.com /archifernandovallejo2.htm (2130 words)

	ourladyoftheassassins
		Fernando's an ardent grammarian and an old fart and a non-stop complaining grouch and a lapsed Catholic, who is nevertheless still drawn to the mystical icons in the church.
		Its broad aim was not to tell the story of Fernando Vallejo's death wish, but to point out to the world how the Colombian government is corrupt, the church useless, that God doesn't exist, and that the powerful drug cartels have crippled the country and taken away its spirit.
		Every time you want to believe that Fernando is a good guy, a world-weary traveler seeking peace and quiet, a concerned citizen about the country's overwhelming poverty and its dishonest politicians, the filmmaker puts a roadblock in front of that and leaves us puzzling at what a phony this high-sounding sophisticate might really be.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/ourladyoftheassassins.htm (1129 words)

	La virgen de los Sicarios; Fernando Vallejo
		Lo que le sobra a Vallejo es dinero y a pesar de esto cree que darle dinero a los pobres es hacerles mas daño a ellos mismos y a la sociedad en general.
		Fernando Vallejo dio estas declaraciones a varios medios de comunicación en España durante la presentación de La Virgen de los Sicarios en las pantallas de los cines.
		Fernando Vallejo y su definición de la película basada en su libro autobiográfico.
	html.rincondelvago.com /la-virgen-de-los-sicarios_fernando-vallejo.html (2634 words)

	Letralia 105 \| Sala de ensayo \| Sobre "El desbarrancadero" de Fernando Vallejo \| John Narváez
		En otras palabras, los medicamentos y los narcóticos, que a menudo Vallejo reúne en una sola sustancia (marihuana, eutanal, aguardiente), conforman un inventario de sustancias que extienden su influencia al código moral y al código biológico simultáneamente.
		Y de vuelta a la secuencia "infección", encontramos que el uso de la fluoximesterona, remedio que Fernando le envía a Darío para combatir su enflaquecimiento, concluye arrojando un resultado contrario, o mejor dicho, un desplazamiento y una acumulación de síntomas, pues al mal originario se le suma una hinchazón prostática.
		La quiebra de afectos entre Fernando y Darío en la secuencia "crianza", presentada en forma de recuerdo desde el momento de enunciación del narrador, está provocada por el papel de paridora múltiple de la Loca, a quien se responsabiliza de haber perturbado con sus más de veinte hijos todo cuadro inicial favorable.
	www.letralia.com /105/ensayo03.htm (3982 words)

	Chico News and Review - Film Review - April 4, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Fernando the writer, however, is surprised, and this basically nonviolent man gives us a surprise of sorts when he tries to protect the kid instead of abandoning him after the first killing and again with those that follow.
		Indeed, while Fernando voices a full array of astute protests, he sees himself as deeply implicated in the fallen world to which he has returned, and his awareness that he is traveling through a contemporary version of Hell gives unexpected depths to this simply told story.
		German Jaramillo (as Fernando) and Anderson Ballestreros (as Alexis) bring engagingly offhanded humanity to their respective roles, but the devastating clarity and simplicity of Schroeder's rendering of their story is what makes it all into extraordinarily compelling drama.
	www.newsreview.com /issues/chico/2002-04-04/film2.asp (413 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: FILM Our Lady of the Assassins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Fernando stops by the local boy brothel and is smitten with handsome local lad/murderous gang member Alexis (Anderson Ballesteros).
		Fernando addresses the world in disgusted sighs bracketed by clunky nihilisms such as "I've lived more than enough!" and "Virtue is for the dead." For a while, such artlessly tone-deaf sentiments are tolerable within the context of the horrors of Medellin.
		When Fernando walks the mean streets, he sees only an articulation of his own misery in the pained faces of the homeless and bleeding.
	www.citypaper.com /film/review.asp?id=2276 (790 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Our Lady of the Assassins (La Virgen de los sicarios)" review (2001) Barbet Schroeder, German Jaramillo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A somber, violent, poetic meditation on the day-to-day anarchy that rules modern Medellin, "Our Lady of the Assassins" is the story of an intellectual Colombian expatriate returning home for the first time since gang violence and the cocaine trade laid waste to the city of his youth.
		Frozen in shock at witnessing a drive-by shooting and a carjacking murder in his first few days home, it isn't long before Fernando is hardly phased by Alexis casually shooting another kid in cold blood right in front of him.
		Meanwhile actor Jaramillo plumbs Fernando's soul for every minute emotion from articulate fury at the fate of his beloved nation to stunned sympathy when he meets one of the gang members out to kill Alexis and comes to understand his motives.
	www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/ourlady.html (575 words)

	Lo sublime y el caos urbano: visiones apocalÃpticas de MedellÃn en La Virgen de los Sicarios de Fernando Vallejo. ...
		Como seÃ±ala HÃ©ctor D. FernÃ¡ndez l'Hoeste, Fernando Vallejo, como autor-narrador, guÃa al lector en un dantesco viaje por MedellÃn en La Virgen de los Sicarios.
		El viaje de Fernando traza el mapa de un MedellÃn apocalÃptico y monstruoso caracterizado como "un asesino omnipresente de psiquis tenebrosa y de incontables cabezas..." (46).
		Vallejo no responde a estas preguntas sino que crea una ciudad imaginaria que representa la modernidad hÃbrida en decadencia que, al contrario de producir los beneficios que propone, engendra desigualdad, injusticia y violencia.
	www.accessmylibrary.com /coms2/summary_0286-2929134_ITM (893 words)

	our.html
		Vallejo's source novel is bluntly autobiographical, with a protagonist named after himself.
		Fernando (Jaramillo) is a gay, middle-aged writer who's returned to Medellin after a period in exile, expecting to die.
		Fernando initially maintains some semblance of distance, but he quickly becomes a numb, detached observer, as Alexis becomes his guide to a world of casual violence.
	home.earthlink.net /~steevee/our.html (760 words)

	Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango
		Fernando Vallejo vivió la mayor parte de su infancia y juventud en Medellín, antes de viajar a Europa, donde realizó estudios cinematográficos en Cinecittà.
		Por su carácter insolente e iconoclasta, la obra literaria de Vallejo hace parte de una tradición contestataria de la intelectualidad antioqueña, que incluye nombres como los del mismo Barba-Jacob, Fernando González y les nadaístas con Gonzalo Arango a la cabeza.
		En este libro, basándose en la confrontación de reconocidos ejemplos de la literatura universal, Vallejo pretende demostrar la existencia de un repertorio de recursos comunes que permiten considerar la literatura «como el reino de lo recibido, como el vasto dominio de la fórmula, del lugar común y el cliché».
	www.lablaa.org /blaavirtual/biografias/vallfern.htm (461 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Our Lady of the Assassins
		Semi-autobiographical yarn by Vallejo, who was born in Medellin in 1942 and then moved to Italy before settling in Mexico, begins with a middle-aged gay writer named Fernando (German Jaramillo) returning to his birthplace after three decades abroad.
		But Fernando is hardly prone to nostalgic melancholy; he's acerbic, irreverent, irreligious and surprisingly accepting of the younger generation, except for its taste in music.
		Indeed, it's Fernando's irritation with modern music that precipitates the violence that brings home to the writer the moral bankruptcy of the society he's re-entered, as well as the short fuse on which Alexis and his contemporaries operate.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117788078?categoryid=31&cs=1 (995 words)

	Santa Monica Mirror: At The Movies: Just One More Person Dying
		Based on an autobiographical novel by Fernando Vallejo, “Our Lady of the Assassins” tells the story of Fernando (Germán Jaramillo), who has made the decision to end his life in Medellín, Columbia, the sacred place of his childhood memories.
		In one case, she is, most pointedly, a pregnant woman — what Fernando would hatefully call a “breeder.” As far as he’s concerned, if people would only stop breeding the problem of poverty would go away.
		Fernando becomes a part of the cycle and ultimately has no choice but to turn his back on that world, on any world.
	www.smmirror.com /volume3/issue13/just_one_more.asp (723 words)

	Barbet Schroeder/Fernando Vallejo: Our Lady of the Assassins
		Fernando (German Jaramillo) goes to a gay party somewhere in the city.
		By this method Fernando instructs Alexis (Anderson Ballesteros) in the early history ["it was just a pig farm"] and Alexis instructs him in the current [the Metrallo drug gangs and youth scene].
		Yet it is Alexis who actually corrupts Fernando into embracing violence, as a point comes in the increasing vigilante action whereby he is stimulated, despite his civilized, pragmatic nature.
	www.culturecourt.com /F/Voyeur/OLA.htm (2185 words)

	Blogs 20minutos: BobPop TV - San Fernando Vallejo, Mártir
		Al escritor Fernando Vallejo lo acusan de "incitación al genocidio".
		Cuando Fernando Vallejo lanza sus diatribas hay que se experto en Colombia para comprenderlas.
		Fernando Vallejo es un escritor amargado entre los amargados.
	blogs.20minutos.es /bobpop/post/2006/05/16/san-fernando-vallejo-martir (860 words)

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