By Eduardo Garcia Aguilar The last time I saw him was in the café La Casona, where I arrived by chance four years ago and found him sitting there with the unmistakable image of a dandy in the best sense of the dandy word, that is stylish, untamed, was lucid and rebellious as ever throughout his life, from the days when infected adolescents literature in Manizales admired him as a role model because in addition to a Samurai was invincible.
was exciting to see him, because for many played the role of an elder brother in matters of literature, drama and life attitudes and ethical not forget the moments spent in the heat of the cup and friendship or intense social struggles then, without which the formation of a man not worth it. It was the most modern and lucid writer of the moment, connected with the new trends in Latin American literature, which touched on his journey Argentina, and its political and social ideas were open and measured without the child of sectarian bigotry in vogue.
Oscar looked at me with this complicity that united us for so long, when memory archaeological areas and the years lived in our city that became a major cultural center and global American International Theatre Festival, visited by the likes of Miguel Angel Asturias, Pablo Neruda, Ernesto Sabato, who has just died --- as I write --- Jerzy Grotowski and hundreds of figures in theater and literature that came from all directions and are nourished with their ideas. Requested
half bottle of brandy glass to celebrate the moment and offer a few words, with the mutual joy of knowing that the pupil had gone on far and that the young master had come with his admirable dignity an unjust and corrupt society, away from the vanity and appearance, careerism, intrigue, bureaucratization, passing with intelligence and insight to all evidence against the current.
At another table my friend, the poet Antonio Leyva saw that reunion with the old wisdom of generous friends who understood what it meant to me, wanted it that way between them, face to face, alone, without interruption, the encounter two human beings who already know the experience that twenty years is nothing, as the tango.
I must say that these moments of conversation and joy experienced as we finished the half bottle has been one of the most exciting meetings I had with a writer, because rarely is shared in addition to the literature, a way to live life and pieces the same sink and a worthy compatriot personal archeology of fiction. That game was as exciting as when I had lunch with Gabriel García Márquez in the restaurant André de Coyoacán. Writers not only triumphant, famous and glorious are important. Writers sheltered by the silence, the rebels like him, are also very large.
Because their younger friends were witnesses of his love and the deep pain of losing and we were fortunate to meet Antoinette and witness the beautiful couple she did with her beloved, we can say that Oscar was also a being of flesh and bone more Beyond the myth that it was for all of us students poets, with its unforgettable plays They are to blame, The day of wrath, College for seven marginalized and teaching as professor of theater directors. Part of the history of the city and the life we \u200b\u200bshare. The social upheavals, cultural and journalistic enthusiasm and passion for life with the sole ambition to be guided by a human ethics, closer to the dispossessed of the powerful.
The time passed and the dandy in the best sense of the word dandy goodbye. Left La Casona way to the bus terminal, oblique carrying a bag on his shoulder and was lost in the streets before the evening progressed. He went with his graying beard, the beautiful face of old traveler upright against the storm of life, impeccable coat, which he seemed to come from an exclusive tailor London. It was the last time I saw him. He told me he lived outside the city and was a hermit surrounded by music and books. No complaining, smiled, communicated vitality.
Oscar Jurado (1944-2011) joined us with the complicity of an older brother when we took the first steps of writers, we opened with Hector Moreno, Beatriz Escobar Ortiz Mario Zuluaga and the cultural pages of The Nation for our first creations. ever, at age 15, went to see him in the writing of this newspaper with a small book of poems I wrote in high school room during math class, and after reading, put these words there unforgettable: "Eduardo: on the sugar is all we will have no bitter words" and signed his name, I have here in view beside me when he is dead Ernesto Sabato, author of The Tunnel and About Heroes and Tombs.
unrepeatable In those days, when the city became an important cultural center through the first International Festival of Theatre, Oscar jury already was an authority on theatrical matters, intellectual and journalistic. Now we have to reread his texts and to see his plays. And keep having it as an example of Samurai, Oceans solo traveler agitated by the storm of poetry.
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Other works of Oscar Jury: eviction signals. Borders sleep. Portrait of an unknown . 
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