Padre Homero
Diálogo de damas: La Realista
No sabemos si era uno o muchos.
Ni siquiera sabemos si existió
o lo inventamos
para dar un dueño y una leyenda
a los poemas que fundaron
el mundo en que vivimos.
Las cuencas vacías de sus ojos
iluminan como dos soles
las aguas, las islas y las playas
del Mediterráneo.
Tampoco sabemos si las historias
que cantó tuvieron raíces
en la historia real
o fueron fantaseadas
por su imaginación incandescente.
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Diálogo de damas: La Realista
Sólo existe lo
que piso, miro
siento y toco:
la lluvia que
nos moja
los perros que
nos huelen
y los apresurados
transeúntes.
Detesto las
mentiras de
la irrealidad.
Acato sin
protestar la tiranía
de todo lo
existente.
Sólo amo lo posible
y me sublevo
contra el hechizo
de las ilusiones.
Pobres amigas,
ustedes tienen miedo
a la vida y por
eso se esconden entre
las musarañas de
la fantasía.
Yo sé vivir
11 comments:
I read "Aunt Julia and the Script Writer" years ago and another, I think it was "A Fish in the Water" or something like that.
I never read any of his novels, just a few scattered essays and poems here and there. I admired him for his courage in leaving the Left and becoming a staunch defender of the Right. In South America, that's a big deal.... to not be a "populist".
Quite sad. Read most of his work, I think.
Te Dedico mi Silencio, his very last novel, sounds interesting.
...but I read very little these days. :(
I do like the premise though.
In South America, that's a big deal.... to not be a "populist".
I hope you're not forgetting the many wacky, if not downright murderous far right regimes that have populated Latin America in the past. Usually quite enthusiastically supported by Uncle Sam, naturalmente!
Indeed, and most were rightly hated by the people living under them. To be a right-winger and at the same time "popular"... that requires a certain talent, one which Vargas Llosa evidently had.
Fujimori was the populist who beat Llosa in 1990... Llosa representing economic liberalism at its' high-water mark, failed to garner much more then bourgeois support. The populist proles were with Fujimori.
...and which is not to deny that the Left had its' crazies... although I'm much more familiar with Columbia's ELN and FARC... one of the reasons Uncle Sam took such an interest in its' Monroe Doctrine Provinces...
Hah.
So you still able to overcome cross-political partyline. And look at partners/opponents as a live people? ;-p
Who know, maybe you'd be able to see people in miserly anonimouses too...
somedays. Somedays. ;-)
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