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LA LITERATURA, UNA LUCHA A VIDA O MUERTE
El gran Roberto Bolaño formuló un juicio tan duro como justo sobre Isabel Allende: "Me parece una mala escritora, simple y llanamente. Llamarle escritora es darle cancha. Ni siquiera creo que Isabel Allende sea una escritora, es una escribidora". El célebre crítico estadounidense Harold Bloom, autor de El canon occidental, compartía la opinión de BolañoY la escritura mexicana Elena Poniatowska opinaba algo similar: "Allende solo hace literatura femenina comercial".
No sé si haber sido durante 25 años crítico literario en medios como El Cultural, Revista de Libros, Letras libres y Zenda me proporciona algo de autoridad, pero creo que Bolaño no se equivocaba. El hecho de que Allende sea mujer no afecta en lo más mínimo a su valoración. Señalar que criticar su literatura es un gesto de machismo es una objeción tan absurda que apenas merece refutación. En los últimos cien años, el número de grandes escritoras en castellano es notable: Carmen Martín Gaite, Rosa Chacel, Ana María Matute, Carmen Laforet, Elena Poniatowska, Silvina Ocampo, Elena Garro.
El Premio Planeta está sumamente desprestigiado. El jurado no se lee los 1.400 manuscritos que compiten. Solo sostiene con sus firmas una farsa comercial. El premio siempre se concede antes de que la novela se haya escrito. Ernesto Sábato lo rechazó por ese motivo. Se negó a recibir un galardón por una obra que aún no existía.
Isabel Allende no hace literatura, sino entretenimiento. Casi todos los autores de best-seller actúan de ese modo. Buscan complacer a un público conformista y poco exigente. La literatura es otra cosa. Los verdaderos escritores buscan la verdad, la libertad, la belleza y concibe su trabajo como una áspera lucha que casi siempre bordea la derrota. No hay nada de eso en Allende y otros superventas, pues su meta es el éxito y no la excelencia.
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"الاكتئاب الحداثي هو ذلك الشعور بأنك مبرمج للعمل في آلة هائلة، بينما روحك صممت خصيصًا للجلوس تحت شجرة وتأمل حركة النمل."
- كونستانسو دي أليساندري
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Kollywood and Tamil Nadu politics have long gone hand in hand. In this southern state, scriptwriters and actors have gone on to become Chief Ministers, and C Joseph Vijay is now part of that legacy.
Of late, National Award-winning actor Dhanush and his fans have been at the centre of a flurry of activity. This begs the question: Will Dhanush be the next in line to enter politics?
Speculation is rife, but for now, the message from the top to his fans is clear: “Don't believe the rumours,” @lorca127 writes.
@PrabhuChawla @dhanushkraja #Dhanush #TNPolitics #TamilNadu
Read more here: newindianexpress.com/states/…
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He knows that understanding is a mistake, that the darkness he most fears lives inside of him (not outside) and that his most essential task is learning to separate the word love from the word death.
-- María Negroni, Elegy for Joseph Cornell (Trans. Allison A. deFreese)
Dhanush's political entry: What's fuelling the speculation? | newindianexpress.com/states/…
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"Llegó con tres heridas:
la del amor,
la de la muerte,
la de la vida".
Miguel Hernández
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“The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless.”
~ Thomas Merton
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And if the song's in search of earth, and if the song's
Ensouled, then everything vanishes
To void, and the stars by which it's known,
And the voice that lets it all be and be gone.
—Osip Mandelstam
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All children are poets
until they quit the habit
of reaching for butterflies
that are not there.
—Dunya Mikhail, from "Tablets V"
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“Stories and roads have something in common,
an important delusion:
that this is the only way to get there.”
— Anne Carson
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“Tell stories, tell stories, until no one else dies. A thousand and one nights, a million and one nights.”
— Canetti, The Book Against Death
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“If you are not the free person you want to be, you must find a place to tell the truth about that. To tell how things go for you. Candor is like a skein being produced inside the belly day after day, it has to get itself woven out somewhere. You could whisper down a well. You could write a letter and keep it in a drawer. You could inscribe a curse on a ribbon of lead and bury it in the ground to lie unread for thousands of years. The point is not to find a reader, the point is the telling itself.”
— Anne Carson
This exhilarating book looks death and decay in the face and asks: is that all you’ve got?
theguardian.com/books/2026/o…
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Nikki Giovanni said, “It’s nice to love the people but it’s necessary to be a friend to someone.”
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What is in store for November 1st week Depression / Cyclone - An early update on the scenarios
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Blue dots (Google Weathernext) others ECMWF AI, GFS AI brings it closer to North Tamil Nadu-SAP coast.
Red dots (ECMWF ensemble) - Takes the cyclone same landfall as Arnab.
We will get clarity once Arnab fizzles out. AI vs ECMWF once gain. Lets hope AI beats ECMWF Operational / Ensembles this time.
Note: 1st week of November climatologically favours North TN/ SAP.
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“Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
Mary Oliver
Photo by Gleb Derujinsky
'Life is not a walk across a field': it was also the last line of Pasternak's poem about Hamlet. And the previous line: 'I am alone; all round me drowns in falsehood.'
—Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time
























