But traveling is always an experience A trip to Venice always brings surprisesthis joyful revelation that our abyssman even has the edge of Stendhal syndrome. No, this aesthetic feeling is associated with touching the innermost fibers of thousands of casual tourists, but for professional and professional travelers, Venetian emotions are unique in our lives.
A city rising above dear blue water in tones of clear or cloudy skies; on every side a surprise, on every face a ghost, in the dark is the exact place for magnicide, a deep work to life felt on the terrace of Piazza San Marcos trying to illuminate the sacred, secret and masonic vision of the facade of the great basilica, These are the hidden details that the mundane universe does not notice but they flood the light to the beginner, who observes the lower part of the picture as one who seeks the green treasure, always seen in the ordinary mind.
I have now traveled to Venice to be the main protagonist of two academic acts that took place last week at Ca’ Foscari University, one of the most important in Italy (and the most important sciences in the world).
Everything was organized, supervised and managed by a great professor Margherita Cannavacciuoloan intellectual and academic delight who has a thorough knowledge of the texts and videos of all Spanish American literature. How to forget our endless honest and veiled truths on the terrace of Monaco de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria talking about literature in general and Spanish-American in particular! How to forget our charles and debates on the same subjects these days in Venice, on the water’s edge, and in sunny places shining in the midst of a terrible winter!
The first act was created around my Cuban trilogy, my three Habanero novels, which were published in twenty years of work. I said it again in Venice: Havana is a very chatty city, most people in super puestas; a foreign writer, even if he loves and goes carefully to the Cuban metropolis, will be very interested to learn once in a while about those wonders that Havana hides only thanks to its inhabitants, habaneros, habladors and speakers of many true and invented stories about the brand, ways of calculating to make people interested.
And I met two important academic figures who participated in this act, a literary conversation with José María Ayas: Elide Pittarello, professor of Spanish at Ca’ Foscari, with a special and deep devotion to the XX. and XXI. century, a great specialist and translator of the work of Javier Marías and the new poets; and Susanna Regazzoni, Jubilee Professor of Hispanic American Literature.
The second act was a natural vision boom hispanoamericano de los años 60 del siglo pasado. The assumption here turned out to be even more dramatic. Professor Regazzoni came across as more combative, suggestive and polemical and more Argentinian.
I confirmed it boom was essentially an editorial phenomenon by the hands of “Barral & Company”. I asked you who will be referred to by the English term companybut I can’t argue with that. And I clarified that, in my view, yes boom I have not yet emerged in the editorial phenomenon the triumph of the texts of novelists who are canonical for siglos siglos.
Añadí a Cabrera Infante and commemorates Elena Garro, Maria Luisa Bombal and Rosario Castellanos. Nihil novum sole. The second intervention came from a twenty-five-year-old student who understood nothing of his discussion in Spanish, but finally said that the only literary work she thought she could bring up was her own, autobiographical.
“Boom” did not arise in the editorial phenomenon until the triumph of one of the texts that are canonical for siglos siglos.
Your Marcel Proust breathed his last. But, woman, yes Most literary fiction is autobiographicalincluding electricity Ulysses de Joyce! With my few years on my shoulders (and another twenty at night), I would like to conclude by recommending a few things to the eager student: live a lot, spend a lot, drink a lot, cut a lot of what you write and publish little. I’m afraid he won’t care for me with this temperament.
Venice, entence, steam always, ecstatic beauty, the historical paradigm of the famous quehacer of Italy and of all European humanity; to see a lady and once in a while a lovely young woman who pursues her sensual impulses, so that those who can adore her charms, always hidden among moist secrets.
Venice, thank you alwayscity, a surprising and classic charity swim in your tunics in the blue sea water, the poetic sea of its eternal decadence, glory and glitter. I turn to the truth to consider the quality of life, the wisdom and the objective conditions of my old writer’s life.
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