Sunday, November 25, 2007

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Borges and I


A l other, Borges, was to whom things happened. I takes me at bookstores in the cities I visit, trying to discover, perhaps mechanically now, a title that still does not know him. The other imagined a library consisting of books of four hundred ten pages, forty lines per page and eighty letters in each line that allowed all possible combinations twenty-five punctuation marks. To me it has given me endless pages of exhausting mission reports from the Network (which others call Text), in languages \u200b\u200bI do not know, for spaces with links that branch, to find a new reference, a letter recovered the definitive list of all your reviews, every word he wrote and only chance, or what we call deceptively random, can redeem the neglect. Convinced that there is always a way to circumvent the game, try to amend that jest Kabbalistic call that led him to complete a few of his works, perhaps waiting for someone like me to write a prologue that contains not only the work, but the spirit of the work, the comments of his writings, the refutation of these comments, criticism of these rebuttals, so that the work itself was unnecessary and definitely fall into oblivion. So maybe I like the perfection of the labyrinths and stripes of the tiger, the certainty of the mirrors and the edge of the sword, the accuracy of Kipling's prose, and not the other, who shared with me those preferences, but in a vain way that made him a character in itself. Ever wanted to write like him and stop having this vicarious life that I canceled and marginalize me, but I did not fall into the temptation to read their own stories. For this purpose in many sleepless nights that only work obsessive writing could relieve margin notes, studied in detail certain key works: the complete poetry of Lugones, a novel almost cryptic Macedonio Fernandez, the Milton's Paradise Lost, in a English edition in 1693, some passages of the work who wrote the immortal men who call Homer's translation of Sir Richard Burton did Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , the first English version of Pliny, that of Philemon Holland, a comparative study of the Eclogues of Jacopo Sannazaro and War of the Worlds Wells , two apocryphal notes on poetic rhythm analysis of Völsunga Saga (1796), the correspondence between Mosco of Sicarusa and Thales, with a brief preface to Coleridge, a pamphlet entitled Cyrilus Osseo Ausdrucksform Die Negation als mit Berücksichtigung Besonderer , some aphorisms of Chesterton about the conventions and cats. I do not want to tire the patient reader to other works of minor importance which finally took me to when I started to write my first story, or think it should be noted that despite the pledge all my efforts I could not start it with this sentence: "On January 14, 1922, Emma Zunz, returning from the textile mill Tarbusch and Loewenthal, found at the bottom of the porch a letter dated in Brazil, which he learned that his father had died. " Nothing cost me confess that pages could have done better than the other, but not the same , which he saved me and I just left this vain custom of being sad. I'm destined to lose, definitely, and just a few of my pages will survive in the other and perfect in its glory. I am slowly rebuilding his life through the vast and memory mirror, I become a man worked for the time, a man who has learned to acknowledge the modest handouts destination: an old parable about butterflies and warriors, reading Cosmogony of Snorri Sturluson, a description the battle of Chacabuco, metaphor "And miles to go Before I Sleep" the soldier whose love for Matilda fainted Urbach, understand that waking is another dream that dreams do not dream. Angelus Silesius understood that to keep reading, it would be one book and also the essence of the book. I shall faint in Borges, not remain in me (if anyone's me), and each time I recognize more in the milongas and the suburbs, I was slowly changing the sweet sound of the rugged Italian Saxon poetry Machado by Evaristo Carriego clumsy verses, the accuracy of the clocks for the games with time and infinity, these shadows rise the relentless galloping of my diopters, the mirrors that just because I glimpse these glasses useless that I lost the habit of wear. I can no longer read Shakespeare and Spinoza, but these authors were of Borges, that distorted and magnified, and I have to get to do otherwise. But there will be no memories, afternoons earned the penalty, nights will be the same night. No one loses but what does not and has never had, and I just had the faithful memory, which is the other. I can only hope that death will match, not forgetting.

I do not know which one dreamed this page.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

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Works Beyond the successfully

H ntil recently, my library did not reside in any complete collection of all the writings of any author. I had not considered essential to collect the books and none of my favorite writers, probably because it is a difficult and sometimes impossible. My friend Jose Luis has taught me that there are flagrant cases of incomplete "Complete Works", as those of Borges Emecé published in the nineties: hundreds of pages written by him have not been included in this edition perhaps because the editor slipped slightly clever, or because the huge Don Jorge creative activity prevented this.

is very difficult to reconstruct all the literature of a writer, especially if it is without them. I can imagine Borges cheating on their publications, entering the beautiful game that he liked, that of deception and counterfeiting. Even with the collaboration of the writer, if it is not orderly and does not maintain a file correctly classified, it is easy to lose any writing, letter, article or story in the collection process. The most meticulous writers, those who even made copies of correspondence sent, may lose a small piece of his work over the years and the vicissitudes. Still amazes me to know that Thomas Jefferson , the third president of the United States, backing all the letters he sent using a polygraph . That it is simplifying the work of the editors.

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complete works then comes to a mission impossible, daunting task without end. Like Sisyphus with its endless work , editors searched in the archives of writers, friends and family, fighting copyright of the various countries that have published his work, and how everything must have an end, printing a hodgepodge collected you approach the entire work, work that is removed with the appearance, by surprise, that story forgotten in a drawer in the summer house, or sent to a friend in times of difficulty.

That has been the case in the story of Julio Cortázar "Ciao Verona", which was recently published in a English newspaper of wide circulation. Why and how has escaped this story to the collections of Cortazar's narrative is something I do not know, but this appearance was due to the nerves to the editors of the complete works that -Gutenberg Galaxy is preparing, editing, which in turn added another unpublished story so far ("Bix Beiderbecke"), to flush the previous complete collections of his stories.

So, a big reason for not purchasing complete any of these works is that they will never become one, even a good approximation. Anyway, the great work you are doing-Gutenberg Galaxy has attracted me, and started acquiring the complete works of Franz Kafka , being short and I have a few of his books. By the weakness I feel for his literature, I continued with Cortazar, still have not stopped running, and I know that will not be final. Juan Carlos Onetti , another of my favorite writers, is also being collected. And I wonder how much longer resist the complete works of Vargas Llosa, Neruda, Nabokov ... which knows the market well-Gutenberg Galaxy. I mean the market fetishists bibliophiles, of course.

Friday, November 9, 2007

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L or worse is that Rafa has every reason in the world in the previous post. There seems to be a relatively simple formula for writing a successful novel, a bestseller , and that anyone with a little office, will and luck to reach the interest of readers, if not for his simple face (and no will or legal) as was the case of Ana Rosa Quintana and pastry novel, written by a black man who in turn turned to plagiarize another novel, I guess that also written by another black.

say it is not easy to publish a novel or succeed with using a simple formula (at least for ordinary mortals), but I think it's pretty easy to write a successful novel. As easy as the father of all these books (as pointed out by Rafa), now in bookstores sweep, The Name of the Rose , was the result of a challenge and a bet made by Umberto Eco to a group of friends, to which ensured that I would write a successful novel for the simple fact of trying. We agree with Umberto Eco is a very smart teacher who knew how to view and combining some well-known narrative resources effectively in a remake that came in handy, with Argentinian blind librarian rampant in medieval abbeys and an obvious Sherlock Holmes drug monastic habits. But the point is that was what he wanted to prove, not a novel that was a masterpiece, but a novel that had much success. I imagine that even Umberto Eco has a formula for writing a masterpiece, or at least, my admiration for literature thought that it is quiet.

In any case, exposing Rafa I approach it every time I walk into a bookstore, especially when approaching certain dates, like Christmas, in which there is an undeniable fury consumer business even as it unlikely to such as bookstores. Before you buy a book, I usually watch what they buy for others, listening furtively buyers comments and advice from the employees, to gauge the quality of the books that crowd the tables closest to the entrance of the store. And mostly I wonder what success means.

"Success" is a pretty vague word, which means, according to the dictionary SAR, "well accepted that a person or thing." So far so good, but there is a factual and temporal uncertainty worries me. Know if there is a word that can refine what I want to defend from now, but, to say as soon as I hit the books I see in bookstores are not the same as others see them.

I will give three examples: for me, three successful novels are In Search of Lost Time , The Heart of Darkness and metamorphosis. Now that's success. The three were written more or less a hundred years and is no longer possible to say how many copies have been sold worldwide for each of them. However, none of the three had greater acceptance in the time it was published, and even Marcel Proust and Kafka died without any celebrity, in the case of Joseph Conrad in his old age was precisely for the least of his extraordinary production. In the meantime, we found three writers who did not meet at the time of the novel conditions of success: that the novelist was known by any means, she was told by the readers before they publish their books. But then, by looking at the novels themselves, nor meet another undeniable premises of best-seller and I would say that almost all the novels are written, at least in my case (and I imagine that the vast majority of cases), it was impossible to identify with the protagonist, not even any of their characters. Of course, I did with the narrator petulant, jealous and gossip of In Search of Lost Time , or the fearless and verbose Marlow of Heart of Darkness , or, as is easily understood, with the bug Kafka's novel. But is that none of the three stories I found the mystery by any party: Proust would have become a bit difficult to keep it for three thousand five hundred pages, and the other two novels, so short, their respective writers did not give them the desire to make a point of suspense in the story. I do not even want to imagine what would have made a fashion writer with these two ideas, the colonialist conspiracy, mutations pseudoscientific and unsolved mysteries that have been endorsed to the delight of readers. The action in all three cases, absent, not to mention the dialogue. And what is more interesting: none of the three writers followed the fashion of the time to devise novel. He never wrote (or believe you are writing) a novel with a very thorough and meticulous description of every situation as Proust did, it is difficult for a character as attractive as Kurtz is given a few pages, not more than twenty, when the whole novel revolves around his personality, I do not think there were so anguished novels before Kafka wrote Metamorphosis , or that such circumstance is attractive for any player of his era.

Those novels, like many others that do not lie on the table for success, are in any bookstore, sold Christmas and summer, there are plenty of studies that deal with them, and most importantly, they have been read for generations Readers from many countries, very different cultures, their language and in translation sometimes better and sometimes worse, and yet still there on the shelves bookstores, discreetly, as extras in a vanity fair, without making much noise, without advertising or media support.

I also think that the three writers, when writing these novels, felt in a very subjective success, which is to do what you really want to do. Proust fought the disease for years, stuck in a room with walls covered with cork, and managed to steal just enough time to death to finish his novel. Conrad lived through many financial hardships throughout life, and left his seafaring profession to write about what, personally and only for him, he was amazed at his many journeys. There is more to see the shack that Kafka lived in Prague Castle or read their heartbreaking letters to wonder why he even moved to write to the pen pushers complexes. In such cases, or in any other lot happier, we should ask what led him to a writer to write a novel that is out of fashion, which is unprecedented, which is what the reader gets tough, when it is easiest follow a formula, a simple logical formula. For the real writer for a really good novel, success is not a cause, but only a possible consequence.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

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Write a novel success today!


E Scriber a successful novel, a bestseller (which literally means "sold better") is not easy, as it is not easy to write any kind of novel that ends up being published. You have to understand the mechanisms that make this type of easy selling novels and good benefits, being particularly skilled in understanding the nature of the reading market evasion, where the fashions rule the roost and where geniuses arise at any time unknown , authors cursed and forgotten books.

Personally, I think it's better to read one of these plug the TV novels. But I can not agree on is that this is a sort of prostitution of the book. As Cortázar said in 1947, this type of book "meets his subordinate as an insidious attack on the traditional literature, which in its higher forms was never escape literature, but of commitment." But in the XXI century avoidance is much easier to achieve in a thousand different ways that reading a book, and the leisure society is quite banished that commitment should lead our lives. So when I see someone reading the latest bestseller , I think it is possible that the person books opts for "committed" to be digested neurons against the idiot box.

The main difference then between literature of escape and authentic literature lies in the author's intention. If the intention is to entertain and sell books, we face a bestseller potential. But if the intention is different, and there can be some time lecturing, we are closer to the true literary event. Without being a consumer of these books, I have in my library a few, and I can draw some conclusions from its characteristics that may be useful to a future successful novelist.

1. Follow fashion. Fashions in literature the start of genius. Do not try to be and follow the prevailing fashion. The medieval and religious mysteries, secret orders and other apocalyptic mysteries are on the crest of the wave was Umberto Eco who initiated this trend with The Name of the Rose . Have a nose for fashion change as it is interesting, Ken Follet did. Gone are the time of political intrigue and spies, but certainly have their market yet. The genetic and biotechnology issues still give some backlash. In Spain, the theme of "civil war" continues to war, especially if you praise the actions of the Republican side and those of national insult. Police line (called "thriller" by the ignorant) is also quite safe.

2. Mystery. I'm not psychologist, but surely one of them can confirm. The human mind is thirsty for solving mysteries. One possible explanation is anthropological innate curiosity of everyone to discover and explore, something that has made man the most successful kind of planet, with permission from the cockroach and other vermin. If the novel spiced with some mystery will be attractive at the moment. Do not hesitate, if you do on the first page, the better.

3. Few descriptions, much dialogue. The reader elusive fleeing dense pages without points apart. Lighten the text dialogues and descriptions make it heavy. The first thing a buyer of selling books, after reading the cover and solapilla, is through the book. Bad thing if you do not see dialogue and gaps between the lines, would be a suckling pig.

4. Identity characters s. are those with whom the reader immediately identifies. Obviously, it should be the protagonist, or at least his henchman. This reality has always been a "good" in the book. Not sure, but I suspect the film has had much to do with the inclusion of such characters in the novels of recent years. I am not able to identify with Hercules Poirot, but if you notice, there is always another interesting character in the novels of Agatha Christie.

5. action. The comments from the readers of books most repeated success with a novel of my interest is "nothing ever happens." Although there are excellent novels filled with action and adventure, is a requirement of the current successful novels. Have to spend a lot of things, all of them unexpected. Romance and sex are included in this section, but without going over.

6. Do not overload or vocabulary words . One of the gravest mistakes of beginning writers is that they believe that good writing is to use a special language and complicated. Do not try to be Mujica Lainez, do not understand.

7. Write without stopping . Send your novels to all publishers as possible. If it is denied, move on to another novel. But keep their manuscripts rejected it safe: If you become famous, you can publish and retrieve the money while enjoying the effort. If you are a journalist or come from time to time on television (not equivalent), you are more likely to succeed because no one wants to publish a successful book written by a stranger.

All these recommendations, of course, no guarantee that successful writing that novel. But it is the first step for fortune and fame. Who do not try do not succeed, so ... forward.