Humberto Costantini
And here, a fundamental theme appears, as in many other of Costantinis worksa force that drives his life and work: To do what is right in the eyes of Jehova, meaning to fulfill ones destiny, as he would say. That attitude of doing what is right led him in many moments of his life to confront the powerful, as his heroine, Raquel Liberman succeeded in doing. Costantini was the victim of political persecutions, blacklists and of gossips and ass-kissers. That posture of confronting the powerful that Cacho exercised naturally, without fuss, as the only possible road by which to travel through life created both hatred and profound loyalty among many toward him. With Costantini nothing was ever wishy-washy one was either honest or one was deceitful. He made it known that he wouldnt forgive any kowtowing.
From his youth he was politically active: in his student days he confronted the Fascists of the Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista and was politically active in the Communist Party until serious divergencies of opinion with the bureaucratic and pro-Soviet leadership caused him to break away. His doing what is right in the eyes moved him to admire profoundly Ernesto Che Guevara. In the 70s he was politically active on the revolutionary left, together with other writers, such as Harold Conti and Roberto Santoro, who were imprisoned by the criminal dictatorship of Videla, and to this day are still disappeared. His novel De Dioses, hombrecitos y policias was written between scary moments and escapes, in clandestine houses at unthinkable hours. This novel was awarded the Casa de Las Americas Prize by an international jury and published in Mexico . About this novel and other work of Costantini, Julio Cortazar said, I love what Humberto Costantini does, and am full of confidence in his work. He is, for me, a very important writer.
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