Este es un blog para personas que piensan que la literatura es la verdadera religión de nuestro tiempo y de todos los anteriores, y que con Juan Ramón Jiménez repiten: "Los dioses no tuvieron más sustancia que la que tengo yo".
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To the Happy Few: espero que estos comentarios y las otras ideas o divagaciones que siguen en la bitácora presente puedan ser de alguna utilidad a quien quiere seguir o ya está en este oficio o carrera de las letras, ya porque sea muy joven y no tenga a quién acudir, o ya porque no siendo joven de cuerpo sí lo sea de espíritu, y desee o considere que es adecuado, con toda llaneza, combatir de este modo que ofrezco el aburrimiento...
Las reglas de uso que propongo al usuario son simples: que tus comentarios busquen la contundencia de la piedra lanzada y suspendida en el aire, buscando allí afinar la idea.
Deseo también que estos pequeños dardos de este diario personal que aquí inicio sirvan como disparadero de ideas para otros proyectos ajenos destinados a otros espacios.
Por último, los diálogos que se produzcan los consideraré estrictamente privados. Y no es preciso poner punto final a los mismos, pues incluso los ya transitados pueden recrudecerse pasado un tiempo.
fijate que Vargas Llosa acaba de ganar el Premio Nobel de Literatura. ¿Por sus épocas de out of the box" o por la in?
ResponderEliminarDicen los suecos: "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
Como a Balzac, su literatura lo supera aunque quiera escribir en nombre de una corona actualizada
Querida Cristina, no sé si dentro o fuera de la caja pero es un escritor formidable. En cuanto a lo que digan los jurados, bueno, ya sabes, tópicos...
ResponderEliminarIt was about time MVL got the Nobel Prize.
ResponderEliminarT, you've changed the order of factors and I'm lost. I'll paste the last one now.
Cristina, he was never out of the box as he was always influenced by Balzac,Flaubert and Faulkner and his originality is based on his writing skills and his ability to merge so many literary traditions together ..or so we were taught, ;)) That's regarding his cartography of structures. the rest I can't say because I haven't read any of his latest/more recent novels only his editorials in Elpais.
My concern is with the present and the long hours of unemployment ahead, shall we have the discipline and strength to go back to reading novels? Are we not fragmented by the structure of Internet that has us searching constantly, therefore only reading as a searching tool? Are searching just for the sake of searching? Like my younger cousins and their children who search on the topics we are talking about, ie, say a movie.We are speaking about a film and then they start searching on it. Reading a as conversational piece...?Reading whatever we find when we are surfing? My latest attempt to read novel was the last Harry Potter.Which was yours? Do we want to have the time again to read novels? Does it not convey long journeys, often uncomfortable, escape from boredom and unemployment? We will have new young readers and our chance to being read is now?
You quote Christ. In lingusitics in my faculty in Dublin’s DCU: “UCD for dyslexic” was the joke at the time, our own professor and other academic decision makers quoted BC and AC: Before Chomsky and After Chomsky.
ResponderEliminarI concur that socializing is to make us idiots, consensus idiots, for pretty much the same reason they have taken chronology our of school books. I wonder if they’( as in the powers..that-be.) dare to be so irreverent towards science subjects. As you’ve probably seen in your children’s school books in Literature, for example, Lorca can be studied before the Lazarilllo, while in History the chronology of events is taken out also. So all the revolutions are studied together, all the world wars etc this descontextualiziation events, thus taking out the consequences and effects that makes one understand events. It’s as if the fairy tale was broken up before it was even told for the first time. I’m using the example of the Fairy Tale because it is the most studied subject of literary folklore, Propp tell us its structure as we can see it applied in el Conde Lucanor, for example. A small good wolf doesn’t make sense unless you have previously known if the big bad wolf.
What I am saying is that deconstruction is being used to erase the construct, thus making all knowledge senseless. I feel the powers that be are trying to destroy our stories, myths and heroes to achieve our consumers’ consensus rather than a cultural / political a one.
Have we gone from Manufacuring consent to destroying content/sense? No, don’t drag me back to madness and civilization. No that sense as in “cordura” but as in logic, reason, cause and effect,ie sentido/ significado..
Shouldn’t we be constructing dissent? Through our writing and teaching? Should we be supporting the centros sociales okupados? Shouldn’t we lounge in the romantic gardens of la tabacalera?
Cristina, I've been thinking and you are right. Of course, each author, language and period is a box, and MVL managed to put them all together extrapolate them to create his own. (I know I should wait and think things through before answering but this little white square is so tempting....)
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