In this issue, Break would make Guillermo Octavio Carlevaro, an Argentine writer who shared his time between Buenos Aires and Paris. A selection of typical life of a large number of Argentine intellectuals. One day, Elsa Carlevaro, contacted Break to let us know this man who had plunged into writing in different moments of his life. Today, Elsa met leaves her husband and has edited two books.
Break therefore wanted to give it up so that his works reach readers who share, as GO Carlevaro and as this magazine, interest in Argentina and France, and in this way, all those interested and want to continue reading this writer can do.
Elsa was asked to present the writer who was her husband, because nobody will know better than she does introduce us to his story: Guillermo Octavio
Carlevaro (1929-1968) born in Concordia, a town the province of Entre Rios of Argentina. He then lived in the city of Buenos Aires and several European countries, including France. He knew very well the peculiarities of the life of the Argentine countryside to experience life after the big cities and other walks, staying in various countries around the world.
A feature of his mind: the rigorous studies that contrasted with a certain lightness to face daily. He had a sensitive mind, which could be characterized by the phrase Knut Hamsum: "I could die for a word that is too hard." can be defined as GO Carlevaro by quotations from writers, him that even if appropriated: "Me, I laugh at everything, even what I like most" G. Flaubert: "What interests me most is the passionate energy of the Thought "by Robert Musil . He's pushing his own writing by academics and teaching obligations. While waiting for suitable s idleness to occupy his writings, he was surprised by his final departure and cruel to all who knew him.
After his death, two books with pages of his notebooks were published in his honor: Greetings [1] et Cyclists in the air [2] . Ces livres contiennent des Réflexions philosophiques sur des sujets, joins Certaine perception du quotidien et de l'intimité dans l'interrelation. Dans
Greetings on peut lire: "Time passes without noticing and it may take up to more familiar things suddenly disappear or hide and spy on us from somewhere as unknown. When it occurs I shrug my shoulders as to a fact against which I can not do anything. Hopeless task, there is a perverse effect on the accumulated tanto es así that nadie da un paso sin consecuencia. . ". [3]
In the back of the book Ciclista en el area we read:" desecrates GOCarlevaro science and fact own the thought of Robert Musil, "The main mistake: too much theory "and he offers us as if we were cycling in air, different ways of thinking go. "The books
Guillermo Octavio Carlevaro, Saludos and Ciclista en el area , are in the library of the Cultural Service of Argentina Embassy in Paris.
[1] Saludos: Ed Vinciguerra-Buenos Aires, 2001.
[2] Ciclista en el area: Ed Deldragón-Buenos Aires, 2006
[3] The book is in English, we offer the following translation of this fragment: "Time goes by that we s 'and it happens in noticing that even the most familiar things suddenly disappear or hide and spy on us from somewhere as to strangers. When this happens, I lower my shoulders like a fait cons that I can not do anything. Spot useless and there is a perverse effect in the accumulation, Such is the finding that nobody can take a step without any consequences ... "
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