Mostrando postagens com marcador Nobel Prize for Literature. Mostrar todas as postagens
Mostrando postagens com marcador Nobel Prize for Literature. Mostrar todas as postagens

quinta-feira, novembro 04, 2010

Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was born in the small northern-Chilean town of Vicuña. She rose from near-povery to acheive a significant international reputation not only as a poet, but also as an educator, a diplomat and a journalist. In 1945 she became the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

La Bailarina

La bailarina ahora está danzando
la danza del perder cuanto tenía.
Deja caer todo lo que ella había,
padres y hermanos, huertos y campiñas,
el rumor de su río, los caminos,
el cuento de su hogar, su propio rostro
y su nombre, y los juegos de su infancia
como quien deja todo lo que tuvo
caer de cuello, de seno y de alma.

En el filo del día y el solsticio
baila riendo su cabal despojo.
Lo que avientan sus brazos es el mundo
que ama y detesta, que sonríe y mata,
la tierra puesta a vendimia de sangre
la noche de los hartos que no duermen
y la dentera del que no ha posada.

Sin nombre, raza ni credo, desnuda
de todo y de sí misma, da su entrega,
hermosa y pura, de pies voladores.
Sacudida como árbol y en el centro
de la tornada, vuelta testimonio.

No está danzando el vuelo de albatroses
salpicados de sal y juegos de olas;
tampoco el alzamiento y la derrota
de los cañaverales fustigados.
Tampoco el viento agitador de velas,
ni la sonrisa de las altas hierbas.

El nombre no le den de su bautismo.
Se soltò de su casta y de su carne
sumiò la canturía de su sangre
y la balada de su adolescencia.

Sin saberlo le echamos nuestras vidas
como una roja veste envenenada
y baila así mordida de serpientes
que alácritas y libres la repechan,
y la dejan caer en estandarte
vencido o en guirnalda hecha pedazos.

Sonámbula, mudada en lo que odia,
sigue danzando sin saberse ajena
sus muecas aventando y recogiendo
jadeadora de nuestro jadeo,
cortando el aire que no la refresca
única y torbellino, vil y pura.

Somos nosotros su jadeado pecho,
su palidez exangüe, el loco grito
tirado hacia el poniente y el levante
la roja calentura de sus venas,
el olvido del Dios de sus infancias.

FOTO: luiseaguilera.cl

sexta-feira, outubro 29, 2010

Jimenez, Juan Ramon (Writer)

(1881-1958) poet

Juan Ramon Jimenez was born in southern Spain but spent most of his life in Madrid. He devoted his life to poetry, publishing his first volume at age 20. In about 1916, when he fell in love and married, he stopped writing in fixed meters and switched to free verse. He wanted to remove everything but the pure poetic essence from his verse. His constant inspiration came from his wife.

Jimenez was a member of the generation of 1898, a literary and cultural movement in the first two decades of the 20th century. Each author of the movement had his own idea of how to write "well," but all agreed that the improvisation, pomp, and regionalism of earlier Spanish literature must be replaced by a more modern, simpler literature that seeks its inspiration abroad. Jimenez's poetry is an example of the move toward this simplicity. Much of his work, such as Arias tristes (Sad Arias, 1903) and Melancotta (Melancholy, 1912), is very sad.

Although known for his voluminous output of poetry, Jimenez is also the author of the beautiful story of a little donkey called Platero y yo. It was first published in 1917 and has been translated into English. Jimenez was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956.

Other Works by Juan Ramon Jimenez

Florit, Eugenio, ed. Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez. Translated by H. R. Hays. New York: Far-rar, Straus & Giroux, 1999.

Light and Shadows: Selected Poems and Prose. Translated by James Wright and Robert Bly. Buffalo, N.Y.: White Pine Press, 1987.

The Complete Perfectionist. Translated by Christopher Maurer. New York: Doubleday, 1997.

Works about Juan Ramon Jimenez

Kluback, William. Encounters with Juan Ramon Jimenez. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.

Wilcox, John. Self and Image in Juan Ramon Jimenez. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

FONTE: http://www.the-crankshaft.info/

segunda-feira, outubro 25, 2010

Os 80 anos de Günter Grass

No aniversário de 80 anos de Günter Grass, neste 16 de outubro, a mídia alemã faz um balanço do significado de sua produção literária e, acima de tudo, de suas posturas políticas.

Em Gdansk, sua terra natal na Polônia, as comemorações, no início do mês, se realizaram à sombra da polêmica que revelou a participação do jovem Grass na Waffen-SS, a tropa de elite nazista. Enquanto isso, na Alemanha, o escritor declarou em entrevista se sentir maltratado pela mídia.

Entre os tratados sobre Grass e as imagens de arquivo recuperadas, talvez as mais interessantes sejam as do encontro de 1999 entre o escritor e o sociólogo francês Pierre Bordieu, já falecido, exibidas pelo canal de TV franco-alemão Arte. No escritóro de Grass em Lübeck, os dois falam do século 20, da miséria e da sorte.

FONTE: DW-WORLD.DE

segunda-feira, maio 04, 2009

The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman


The Old Capital By Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman

The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife, Shige.

Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic story revolves around Chieko who becomes bewildered and troubled as she discovers the true facets of her past. With the harmony and time-honored customs of a Japanese backdrop, the story becomes poignant as Chieko’s longing and confusion develops.
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The Old Capital
By Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman
Translated by J. Martin Holman
Edition: reprint
Published by Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006
ISBN 1593760329, 9781593760328
182 pages


FONTE: The Old Capital (imagem incluída)