miércoles, 14 de mayo de 2014
Luigi Amara, Los disidentes del universo, Sexto Piso, México, 2013.
En el prólogo a la edición de 1954, Jorge Luis Borges escribió que la Historia universal de la infamia era“el irresponsable juego de un tímido que no se animó a escribir cuentos y que se distrajo en falsear y tergiversar (sin justificación estética alguna vez) ajenas historias”. En este sentido, las historias —apócrifas, falsas, tergiversadas— que conforman Los disidentes del universo, el último libro de Luigi Amara (ciudad de México, 1971), se encuentran más cerca del Borges de la Historia universal de la infamia que de los Ensayos de Montaigne, pese a que él mismo se empeña en considerar a sus textos “ensayos que podrían llamarse conjeturales”. (p. 13).
Reseña completa en: http://confabulario.eluniversal.com.mx/escritura-de-las-antipodas-2/
jueves, 1 de mayo de 2014
Sergio Galindo, Polvos de arroz, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, 2013.
Reseña completa en: http://www.criticismo.com/polvos-de-arroz/
sábado, 26 de abril de 2014
In the mood for love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.
miércoles, 23 de abril de 2014
George Steiner
"Nazism, communism, Stalinism have convinced me of this central paradox: bookishness — bookishness, that old English word, it's a good one — bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it. We are trained our whole life long in abstraction, in the fictive, and we develop a certain power— allegedly a power—to identify with the fictive, to teach it, to deepen it (how many children has Lady Macbeth?). Then we go into the street and there's a scream and it has a strange unreality."
George Steiner
martes, 22 de abril de 2014
La grande belleza (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
"This is how it always ends. With death. But first there was life, hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah... It's all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise, silence and sentiment, emotion and fear. The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity. All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world, blah, blah, blah... Beyond there is what lies beyond. And I don't deal with what lies beyond. Therefore... let this novel begin. After all... it's just a trick. Yes, it's just a trick."
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