DF Confidencial, crónicas de delincuentes, vagos y demás gente sin futuro – JM Servin
J.M Servin, who was born in 1962, is a journalist from Ciudad de Mexico. He mostly publishes fiction and essays for magazines and newspapers and journals, both in Mexico and outside of his country.
His book DF Confidencial, crónicas de delincuentes, vagos y demás gente sin futuro is one of his journalism and essay works and that is what I’ll be translating into English. One of the websites that sells his book reviews it in Spanish as “En este volumen J. M. Servín ofrece un libro fascinante por su incorrección política, por su aroma a sangre y, sobre todo, por su destreza para hacernos recordar que la imagen siniestra no es lo importante, sino entender lo que sucedió en la escena del crimen.”
“El Savoy es un nicho donde los devotos completan su peregrinaje visitando antes o después de la función una sex shop frente a la taquilla”. Pg 95
The Savoy is where the faithful finish their pilgrimage, along with the sex shop across from the ticket booth which they visit before or after the movie.
Faithfulà believers, devoted?
Pilgrimagesà journey?
“El puritanismo reprime a un público radical, urgido de purgar sus desdichas de mirón de aparadores.”
This puritanism [of the movie posters] imposes its restraint on the radical audience, and urges that audience to purge the dissatisfaction of merely being a voyeur of these enticing displays.
aparadores = window displays