Essays/Narrations

Ingaramo published only one book of essays, Turbios purgatorios in 1992 with an underground publisher in Rosario, Argentina. In fact the ‘book’ was in reality in a ‘mimeo’ format and binded in rustic format. The book was very eclectic and included many articles, some of them in a ‘note’ format. The style, typical from Ingaramo, was very direct but also very fragmentary. The edition, as far I was able to establish, never sold a copy and was partially distributed among some of Ingaramo’s friends and among the members of the anarchist group that was responsible for the edition. The remaining copies were lost (or destroyed) when the group ‘Ideacción’ was dissolved in the early 90s. The book was in reality a collection/re-collection of notes and unpublished brief articles that Ingaramo produced since he left Brasil to Europe in 1976.
Ingaramo, although with an intellectual interest in many sociological and philosophical issues, was never fully attracted by the critical/analytical narration. He was much more concerned by the idea of writing itself and, in that sense, we occasionally discussed some sociological or philosophical issues.

He never published another critical writing during his life and when he died, in 1996, he left a number of manuscripts which were difficult to be classified as ‘essays’ but which, however, have a critical and analytical style. Here is where we realize, once again, that, what Ingaramo was searching for, it was a sense of writing, rather than a notion of narration or style.