29 October 2016

THE DUEL - Joseph Conrad

The Duel is a story attained the dignity of publication all by itself in a small illustrated volume, under the title, "The Point of Honour." That was many years ago. It has been since reinstated in its proper place, which is the place it occupies in this volume, in all the subsequent editions of my work. Its pedigree is extremely simple. It springs from a ten-line paragraph in a small provincial paper published in the South of France. That paragraph, occasioned by a duel with a fatal ending between two well-known Parisian personalities, referred for some reason or other to the "well-known fact" of two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army having fought a series of duels in the midst of great wars and on some futile pretext. The pretext was never disclosed.

Joseph Conrad, (born Dec. 3, 1857, Berdichev, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Ukraine]—died Aug. 3, 1924, Canterbury, Kent, Eng.), English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent, whose works include the novels Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story “Heart of Darkness” (1902). During his lifetime Conrad was admired for the richness of his prose and his renderings of dangerous life at sea and in exotic places.





BENITO CERENO - Herman Melville

Herman Melville (Nueva York, 1819 - 1891) a los once años se trasladó con su familia a Albany, donde estudió hasta que, por la quiebra de la empresa familiar, tuvo que ponerse a trabajar. La dificultad para encontrar un empleo estable le llevó, en 1841, a enrolarse en un ballenero. Fruto de sus experiencias en el mar fueron Typee (1846) y Omoo (1847). En 1850 publicó Moby Dick, novela considerada una de las grandes obras de la literatura universal, que escondía la metáfora del mundo y la naturaleza humana: la incesante búsqueda del absoluto que siempre se escapa y la coexistencia del bien y del mal en el hombre. Esto tras un argumento aparentemente simple: la obsesión del capitán Achab por matar a Moby Dick, la ballena blanca.

Benito Cereno publicada por entregas en 1855, es otra novela donde el autor plasma su experiencia de marinero. Se trata de un modelo de síntesis y estilo, donde Melville pinta con colores plomizos una historia que bordea el misterio y el terror: en 1799, el capitán norteamericano Amasa Delano ancló en la bahía de una isla desierta del litoral chileno. A la mañana siguiente apareció un misterioso barco, el Santo Domingo. Aquél era un barco de esclavos que la tempestad y una epidemia habían diezmado. Los marineros blancos convivían con los negros, sin provisiones y en desgobierno alarmante. Allí Delano conoció al débil y enfermizo capitán Don Benito, quien le explicó los horrores de su travesía. Equívocos y miedos, pasajes descriptivos y simbolistas, temas como el racismo y la colonización, con su estilo ágil Melville consigue atrapar al lector desde las primeras líneas. : “Benito Cereno sigue suscitando polémicas. Hay quien lo juzga la obra maestra de Melville y una de las obras maestras de la literatura.



"Hay quien lo considera un error o una serie de errores. Hay quien ha sugerido que Herman Melville se propuso la escritura de un texto deliberadamente inexplicable que fuera un símbolo cabal de este mundo, también inexplicable”.
 Jorge Luis Borges





DIARY OF A MADMAN - Gustave Flaubert

Diary of a madman is a brilliant demonstration of the difficulties and complexities inherent in writing. At first sight it could seem a frustrating and fool text. It might appear incoherent and crisis-ridden, but at the end the reader could hear the voice of a writer who is, slowly but surely, preparing himself for the world’s literary stage. 



Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen, France on 12 December 1821, the fifth of six children in a family of doctors. .In the 1830s Flaubert attended the Collége Royal de Rouen, writing for its newspaper, reading Shakespeare, travelling extensively and at the age of fourteen began in earnest his own writings, inspired by his unconsummated love affair at this time with the much older and married Elisa Schlésinger, that inspired Diary of a madman. He unsuccessfully studied law in Paris, and after the death of his father, Flaubert lived in Rouen for the rest of his life. His malady of nervous fits (epilepsy started when he was around twenty-two years old) caused him to be sequestered at home much of the time, while allowing him the peace to continue his writings. Flaubert embarked on a trip to Egypt and the Far East in 1851. In 1857 he published Madame Bovary,a portrait of the young provincial Emma Bovary as fallen woman and her adulterous liaisons. It was criticised then banned for a period after its first release. In 1870 Flaubert became very sick, but continued to write. Afflicted by syphilis and rapidly declining health, Flaubert died on 8 May 1880 due a brain hemorrhage.



«I was in love.What it is to love, to feel young and full of tenderness, to feel the harmonies of nature palpitating within you, to need this reverie and this action of the heart, to feel happy on account of it! Oh! Those first beatings of a man’s heart, his first palpitations of love! How strange and gentle they are! And later, how trite, how stupid and ridiculous they seem! What a strange thing! There is at once both torment and joy in this sleeplessness.»





27 October 2016

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