ABC read in the last cultural (24/12/2010) column of José Luis García Martín on the reissue of the book against poetry. Poets Against Witold Gombrowicz just released Visor. For starters obvious he did in 2009, the editorial sequitur, although this is somewhat less . However, the interesting thing is the fact that Garcia Martin seems to blur (intentionally) the problem, but not at other times with grace and humor. To begin blurs the context of its publication, and without that context this book loses some of its meaning. This text was written in 1947, just after the Second World War. Other writers recall, as Günter Grass, the hatred that existed at that time to certain poets that after the horror of the Holocaust were still singing the laurels and lilacs, which are absent altogether from the world in which they lived. Günter Grass spoke of a "distrust of all Ting-tinkling, to the timeless poetry of the mystics of nature [...] It was absolute magnitudes abjure, white or black ideological, order the expulsion of beliefs and settle only on doubt, which gave everything, even the same rainbow, a grotesque shade. " The topic was on the table. What poetry could survive in a world? Poetry needed to mutate or disappear. A year earlier, 1946, Heidegger had asked, through Hölderlin, "And why poets in times of hardship?" And his response was warm and rather reactionary. It will be a few years later, in 1951, when Adorno throw your worst bad read and interpreted sentence: "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric." Of course Adorno, like others, refers to a particular type poetry (not the poetry): pure poetry, understood as detached from the social and political conditions from which the poet writes. Each poet, writing a poem, you must leave traces of their society in the deed, not only in content but mainly in form. (Adorno, it is clear, he wrote many texts on poetry, for example, your priceless "Lyric Poetry and Society.") Is against the poetry and the poet away from the world completely against what was released both as Adorno Gombrowicz. Do not go against poetry, but against certain poetry. This is not to say, much less defend poetry pamphlet. All otherwise. This poetry does not reflect social conditions through language but imposes a content (too demagogic) structure impossible to shoot the proper sense of time. Ie the time of the poem is revealed in the structure, construction of the poem and not simply content. Martín-García him back to the thesis of Gombrowicz plot to their advantage, "the verses do not like to almost anyone, the world of poetry is a fictional world and falsified." This, according to the critic, the thesis of the text. And Garcia Martin added that because nobody does not like it makes sense to be published much poetry, that only ten or twelve poems are saved. Somehow, Martín García Gombrowicz misrepresents the argument. If you read the text of Gombrowicz completely understand what "seem [this thesis] child desperately, and yet, I confess that I do not like the verses and even bored me a bit. The interesting thing is that I am not ignorant at all artistic matters nor do I lack poetic sensibility, and when poetry mixed with other elements, more crude and prosaic [...] I tremble like any mortal. " He adds: "what nature is difficult to hold my pharmacist and purified extract of poetry called" pure poetry "and, especially, when it appears versificada”. Bien. Todo esto es lo que obvia García Martín. Y es mucho. Para empezar a Gombrowicz le asombra darse cuenta (de pronto) de que a pesar de poseer sensibilidad literaria, la poesía le espanta. Parecería que al sorprenderse a sí mismo escribiendo eso, tratase de recular. Por ello Gombrowicz añade que la poesía, cuando aparece mezclada con otros elementos cotidianos, crudos, prosaicos, tiembla como cualquiera. Ahí está lo importante. El lenguaje poético como tal no existe sino es en estado de mezcla con lo real, con lo cambiante, con lo crudo y prosaico. La poesía no está en el verso. Si leemos algunos fragmentos de Contra los poetas lo entenderemos mejor: "Why I do not like pure poetry? Yes, why? For the same reason I do not like pure sugar! The sugar used to sweeten coffee and should not be eaten with a spoon as if it were a soup. " And it adds that you tired of poetry. That is, there is a tolerable part (which is what Milosz try to see in his famous letter of response) and other excessive. He writes: "What I get tired of pure poetry is too much poetry and poetic string of words, metaphors, sublimation, in short, that excess condensation that cleans the texts of any element apoético and ends up resembling chemicals. " That's what I tired: the poem as a product, such as cardboard, as a fusion of pre-established rules. For he adds: "Dedicated to improving the Art hard, we wonder about the link, the contact you have with us. Poetry grow, forgetting that it has not always Bello tastes. If you do not want the culture loses its relationship with human beings, we would occasionally interrupt our laborious exercise to see if what we produce we expressed or not. " There is the issue, the question. That we write: What is your relationship to the reality around us? This text is a rewrite of Against poetry and was published in 1951. Denotes, as well as other texts of the time, that fear to escape or, rather, that immersion in the guise of technical or purity, as if that really existed kingdom. Just as one day we discovered that the Kings are the fathers, the poet must discover as soon as possible, this would be hidden from Gombrowicz's thesis-that poetry no real territory, there are no more or less poetic words, the poem is entirely in verse or in the poet's inner world. This is not to say that Gombrowicz advocate a popular poetry accessible to all the world. Write: "Are they or are not sealed? Nothing is further from me to accuse them of "difficult" not intend to write to "all understand" and can be read everywhere. No! [...] An art that never would be respected. The artist smart, subtle, deep to be expressed as such and adopt the style that belongs to him. [...] Nothing is wrong with modern poetry is accessible to anyone, but there he is born of the unambiguous and narrow coexistence between men and identical world. " (This should be read in light of Adorno's text "Lyric Poetry and Society", before above). Then, in an interesting game where he puts himself as a model, not to mention speaking of poets, therefore creating an indefinable territory between poetry and prose, says: "I myself am an author who defends his own level but my works never forget that in addition to my world there are others. Although not written for the people who write and is hounded by the people, and depends on, and trained in, the people. " He concludes the paragraph in a clairvoyant, "My art has grown not so much in touch with people like me but the relationship with the adversary." For Gombrowicz the problem is that many poets forget all this. They forget factor society, world, reality is another. therefore underpins his thesis: "Indeed, no poet is only a poet, but in each there is also a non-poet, who does not sing or chant ... loves being a man is more than a poet" . If this is forgotten, the poet becomes a priest, the protector of the sacred fire, the priest of a handful of ideas of poetry and of poets and poems, as a kind of ceremonial ritual. For Gombrowicz, when poetry becomes a ritual (very ironically speaks of poetry and homilies) literature disappears, disappears the other , the world disappears, la realidad. Es decir, se esfuma la poesía. Por eso, hacia el final del texto señala: “Creo haber explicado más o menos porqué soy reacio a la poesía en verso; y porqué los poetas, dedicados en cuerpo y alma a la Poesía, al cerrar los ojos ante la realidad, olvidan la existencia del hombre concreto y acaban encontrándose más allá del aparente Triunfo, más allá de toda la pompa de sus rituales, en una situación catastrófica”.
¿Y José Luis García Martín? Su columna se dirige hacia lo más superficial del texto para hacerse notar él mismo, tal vez. Antepone su yo a sus propias ideas, y esto es muy difícil. Resalta los fragmentos less highlights the text of Gombrowicz. This is simply highlights those who speak of vain polemics between poets find objectionable. On the other hand, notes that publishes the text viewer to flatter its readers by copying the Media Markt strategy that says "I am not stupid" which is a funny way to call us idiots. I do not know. However, reading the text of Gombrowicz and, as a parody or caricature of the poets beyond historicity meaningless. Also tells us that after closing the book, is able to "refute one by one the reasons." Refute its reasons no means overcome. Critic rejects his reasons not tell us how. But that would be another matter. He added that Gombrowicz, "somehow, right." "Somehow?
However, Martín García is not within the text at all, but understood backwards. To begin the critic writes: "Gombrowicz poets do not attack, but its caricature." On the contrary. The aim of Gombrowicz is go against poets. Precisely that is the title of the work. But, as Adorno, despite the distances between them-is not against all poets but against certain poets make poetry a ritual ceremony. It is against the friars of poetry, who see it as a kind of communion rather than religious, as a kind of monastery closed to the public. A kind of lodge where only a few are worth. Curiously, turning the tables-that is the position of Martin Garcia. And therein lies the key point of the digression Martín García, which swings and tries to transform the hypothesis Gombrowicz, with which we agree or disagree but that requires a focused reflection. Gombrowicz, just laughs at those priests poetic wonder, "Is it worth spending so much paper, effort and money with so little benefit?" (Writes Martin Garcia). Poetry, Martín-García seems to say is so virginal which is destroyed in contact with the paper. No. That's not the idea. Interestingly, for reasons pilgrims, García Martín considers Gombrowicz's right, but what they do not realize is that he is being a caricature of Gombrowicz speaking, holding the frailedad (or frailismo) exclusive of poetry: " but ten or twelve poems a year, after many centuries of writing poetry, and in many languages, enough to form an endless anthology memorable. On almost all poets. " That is not the idea of \u200b\u200bGombrowicz. Martín García becomes precisely in the Friar of poetry, the poetry priestly guard, a character that is directed against precisely Gombrowicz. Poetry does not need monks.
For Gombrowicz the problem is not just in poetry but in the attitude of the poets. The more poetry published and write more opportunities for access to pure poetry, prosaic, raw, that makes us tremble as he demanded, we will. Poetry is verse or verse-and this is the hidden complexity of the text of which is unaware or unwilling to see that her criticism García Martín- since there is no poetic writing but able to mix elements different beyond that called diversification. The thesis Gombrowicz key may be that there poetic. Delighted .
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