Yesterday I spent a while to undo 2 of 5 boxes of books I have recovered this weekend. As I told you once, I'm a bad son, had them in the storeroom in which sometimes becomes a home of their parents. The fact is that, while I was looking for accommodation and thinking whether to buy more shelves or give away the surplus that threatens to throw me bookish to me from the room, flipped through some books that had not seen for years.
These old friends was this volume of essays by Juan José Hernández, irreberentes Writings (Adriana Hidalgo, 2003) that was reviewed favorably in the defunct magazine Read . I liked it, among other reasons, the trial will Adolfo Bioy Casares devoted to an author who can not stand. I swear that even given The Invention of Morel not see the book at home.
Hernandez's essay called "The Anguish of a hummingbird's La Biela" and reading about posthumous book left Bioy, Rest of walkers, which among other things concerned hetoresexual his eventful life (more : I would say that Borges knew what sex is because he had Bioy). Besides look at that, Hernández reviews some omissions or political presence Duo Sharpener Argentina literature. Now they are back in fashion military interventions, I got to reread a few fragments.
Note: SADE is the Argentina Society of Writers and a cafe La Biela in Recoleta neighborhood (something like the Salamanca district of Madrid).
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you ever heard from Adolfo Bioy Casares him for his education and literary tastes, he felt more comfortable in the nineteenth century European in its time and country birth. However, in his posthumous work, Break Walkers, never uses the word spleen, typical turn of the century he admired, but tedium vitae expression to describe the disappointment and bitterness that overwhelmed him at the end of his life.
Similar to note-books of Samuel Butler and Somerset Maugham, the book is a miscellany of brevedades which mixes autobiographical notes and literary opinions, stories of dreams and read transcripts of graffiti in public toilets and furnished; Travel memories and love affairs, talks with taxi drivers and quotations from Saints Romano mundane gossip and political, family anecdotes and verses scurrilous, as this quatrain emblematic that the author attributes to pseudo Vizcacha: "Much to the penalties not I attend / And all imitate the rabbit, / To live happy and taking / to die of old. "
Despite his lack of interest in social and political conflicts of the day, Bioy Casares joined in 1965 to a statement from a group of intellectuals in a statement repudiating the SADE condemning the invasion of Santo Domingo by U.S. Marines together. He and his close friend Jorge Luis Borges, and some ladies literate (Silvina Bullrich, Susana Bombal), justified the invasion because it was made "on behalf of democracy and support for the OAS against communism."
Walkers Rest In this episode is not mentioned, nor the act of the Lincoln Library where Borges spent his translation of Walt Whitman to the then U.S. president Richard Nixon, "human rights defender and champion of democracy in the continent." Years later, the champion would be removed from office following the Watergate scandal.
Adultery joyful and torture of suffering back pain from his youth are recurrent themes in Rest of Marchers: "I do not read or write, do little or nothing. The center of my life, lumbago, "he laments in a tone of irony.
In another passage the book, tells how to browse a guide bleu near Paris, he discovered that there appeared the inn Le Roi Soleil, "where we went to bed every night for a month, to Helen Garro." Another victim of his indiscretion is Beatriz Guido, who once asked a prologue to a novel that is about to publish. He says he will, but if you accept to sleep with him. He adds: "Of course, I wrote the foreword."
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The text follows here in daily Página 12, which published this essay together with another book, «Erotismo y pornografía».
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