One afternoon in 1987 someone forgot two books of José Donoso in the cab of my uncle Fidel. In that I involuntarily bookcrossing reading, twelve, "The garden next door," a beautiful novel bitter and bitter and then I found others. Rather than follow the story of Julio and Gloria look at me like lovers Magritte on the cover, which pooled their faces covered by white sheets carefully, or review, on the first page, uneven ink a blue ring that said "High School British Library." It is late to return the novel to the British High School. Public
Mercury
By Alejandro Zambra
"Poems of a novelist, in any case, the other book left at the Peugeot 404, not belong to any library, and it interested me more than The garden next door. When the natives knew only fragments of Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, and had not even heard the names of Rimbaud or Baudelaire - I found the poems of Donoso, I read and reread with keen interest. Did not understand, but I drew, especially the dry language, strange that suddenly appeared: "Open your mouth, / say, ask, tell / is closed entirely." That
dryness was actually a form of modesty, reverence: but Donovan had read with care Pound and Eliot , still conceiving of poetry as a genre of autobiographical as a confession, more or less hidden in the rhythm. Talk about travel, museums, family memories, from a tentative, problematic: it is as if poetry were placed against the wall to the omniscient narrator, forcing him to star in the comedy of privacy difficult. Poems of a novelist is not a book of youth, quite the contrary, meets mainly mature writings, according to Donovan in the foreword explains, were born "as overcrowded shelter to the density of my novels." Also in the foreword, the author slips this statement to say the least unusual for a book of poetry: "I do not want to be a poet. Poetry seems a frighteningly serious task, solo final, essential, and essences, so stark and unforgiving, not my vocation. "It's a bit absurd to read the poems of a poet who does not want to be a poet. Much of the effect of his verse, however, comes precisely this denial: we read texts that Donovan would not write, he published not to continue correcting, read poems in which, except for some points of leakage, no poetry.
difficult to accommodate in fiction to autobiography is the potential value of the poems of Donoso. It is unfair to compare "the place no limits", "The Obscene Bird of Night" or "cottage" style with defeat Poems representing a novelist. But for a reader who reached the door Donoso service this comparison becomes inevitable. I do not know if their poems are better than Manuel Rojas , for example, although both storytellers share an essentialist conception and too respectful of poetry.
rare library where Rojas Donoso and they are poets, he continues, in reverse, in the narratives of Huidobro and Neruda novelist novelist or near "The inhabitant and hope" and "Cat in the way" , the lone story Nicanor Parra published when antipoetry invented yet.
The list goes on: "The time of suspicion" of Teófilo Cid, the puzzling fictions Rosamel Valley, "puppet", the "nouveau roman" that Gonzalo Millán wrote in times of personal relationship. Storytellers in the anthology of the university, in 1959, meanwhile, Armando Cassigoli commitment storytellers of the future: at the Poli Delano, Cristian Huneeus, Charles Morand or Antonio Skarmeta appear filmmaker Patricio Guzman The critic Red Grinor , and two storytellers that sooner or later abandoned fiction Oscar Hahn, who include a perfect story, and Jorge Teillier , author of a very good story and could not be more laric. I almost beyond Juan Emar, Braulio Arenas, Alfonso Alcalde Claudio Giaconi and , who not only wrote "difficult youth" but also "The collapse of the West", a book of poems that I often remember these verses: "The important thing is not the first communion / but the last."
Unlike the case of Enrique Lihn , it was not a poet-narrator or storyteller-poet, but an entire literature. The same Bolaño, whose poems appear written by the characters in his narrative. Milan Kundera in The Curtain, said that novelists are born "from the ruins of his lyrical world" and perhaps Bolaño's work realizes this distance. The double militancy Bolaño Lihn and in any case, responds to a mixed idea of \u200b\u200bwriting, the need to build a multi-position: personal, social, political, literary. By contrast, even at their most confessional, Donoso Donoso is careful: describe, accurately, scenarios, objects, but prefers to portray in a group, accompanied by his characters, crouched in a corner of the image. Just as in "The Garden next door "autobiographical illusion is replaced eventually by a sophisticated set of mirrors," Poems of a novelist "denies both the poet and novelist.
However, faced with the uniform language of the eighties, the poetry of José Donoso little seemed new and mysterious: "The stain faded / wall. / Just you and me / We know what it was that wall / before stain. / How we were, / you and me, or without knowing that the stain / discoloration is a watercolor / can not remember? ". Passenger insurance in 1987 that diverted much missed your copy of "The Garden of the side" the "Poems of a novelist." Luckily, as I said Enrique Lihn, nothing slips.
Mercury
By Alejandro Zambra
"Poems of a novelist, in any case, the other book left at the Peugeot 404, not belong to any library, and it interested me more than The garden next door. When the natives knew only fragments of Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, and had not even heard the names of Rimbaud or Baudelaire - I found the poems of Donoso, I read and reread with keen interest. Did not understand, but I drew, especially the dry language, strange that suddenly appeared: "Open your mouth, / say, ask, tell / is closed entirely." That
dryness was actually a form of modesty, reverence: but Donovan had read with care Pound and Eliot , still conceiving of poetry as a genre of autobiographical as a confession, more or less hidden in the rhythm. Talk about travel, museums, family memories, from a tentative, problematic: it is as if poetry were placed against the wall to the omniscient narrator, forcing him to star in the comedy of privacy difficult. Poems of a novelist is not a book of youth, quite the contrary, meets mainly mature writings, according to Donovan in the foreword explains, were born "as overcrowded shelter to the density of my novels." Also in the foreword, the author slips this statement to say the least unusual for a book of poetry: "I do not want to be a poet. Poetry seems a frighteningly serious task, solo final, essential, and essences, so stark and unforgiving, not my vocation. "It's a bit absurd to read the poems of a poet who does not want to be a poet. Much of the effect of his verse, however, comes precisely this denial: we read texts that Donovan would not write, he published not to continue correcting, read poems in which, except for some points of leakage, no poetry.
difficult to accommodate in fiction to autobiography is the potential value of the poems of Donoso. It is unfair to compare "the place no limits", "The Obscene Bird of Night" or "cottage" style with defeat Poems representing a novelist. But for a reader who reached the door Donoso service this comparison becomes inevitable. I do not know if their poems are better than Manuel Rojas , for example, although both storytellers share an essentialist conception and too respectful of poetry.
rare library where Rojas Donoso and they are poets, he continues, in reverse, in the narratives of Huidobro and Neruda novelist novelist or near "The inhabitant and hope" and "Cat in the way" , the lone story Nicanor Parra published when antipoetry invented yet.
The list goes on: "The time of suspicion" of Teófilo Cid, the puzzling fictions Rosamel Valley, "puppet", the "nouveau roman" that Gonzalo Millán wrote in times of personal relationship. Storytellers in the anthology of the university, in 1959, meanwhile, Armando Cassigoli commitment storytellers of the future: at the Poli Delano, Cristian Huneeus, Charles Morand or Antonio Skarmeta appear filmmaker Patricio Guzman The critic Red Grinor , and two storytellers that sooner or later abandoned fiction Oscar Hahn, who include a perfect story, and Jorge Teillier , author of a very good story and could not be more laric. I almost beyond Juan Emar, Braulio Arenas, Alfonso Alcalde Claudio Giaconi and , who not only wrote "difficult youth" but also "The collapse of the West", a book of poems that I often remember these verses: "The important thing is not the first communion / but the last."
Unlike the case of Enrique Lihn , it was not a poet-narrator or storyteller-poet, but an entire literature. The same Bolaño, whose poems appear written by the characters in his narrative. Milan Kundera in The Curtain, said that novelists are born "from the ruins of his lyrical world" and perhaps Bolaño's work realizes this distance. The double militancy Bolaño Lihn and in any case, responds to a mixed idea of \u200b\u200bwriting, the need to build a multi-position: personal, social, political, literary. By contrast, even at their most confessional, Donoso Donoso is careful: describe, accurately, scenarios, objects, but prefers to portray in a group, accompanied by his characters, crouched in a corner of the image. Just as in "The Garden next door "autobiographical illusion is replaced eventually by a sophisticated set of mirrors," Poems of a novelist "denies both the poet and novelist.
However, faced with the uniform language of the eighties, the poetry of José Donoso little seemed new and mysterious: "The stain faded / wall. / Just you and me / We know what it was that wall / before stain. / How we were, / you and me, or without knowing that the stain / discoloration is a watercolor / can not remember? ". Passenger insurance in 1987 that diverted much missed your copy of "The Garden of the side" the "Poems of a novelist." Luckily, as I said Enrique Lihn, nothing slips.
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