We want to talk about Borges very long time, but the complexity and richness of his work was rejected each time the time to make it so. Writer unusual, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is the emblem of Argentine literature, recognized as one of the pioneers of "magical realism" as a literary currents, he defended a literature which is not limited to model the boring world we live in, but becomes fiction.
The time to talk about it finally arrived. The exhibition held in Paris in early September in the House Latin America, is the long-awaited opportunity to dive into a few lines the world of ideas related to the name of this writer.
Argentines in general, we "fear of Borges, it's part of our desire and both of our fear of entering a deep and complex prose but described as a person's soul" portena ", thus revealing the identity of the inhabitant of Buenos Aires. Maybe the anxiety that we feel does not disappoint this exquisite example of mind that our writer found in Argentina. "There is a before and after Borges literature ", a phrase often heard in literary circles, but how to overcome this intellectual pressure?. And here
exposure. It is a relief to address the anguish of the writer as it reveals its most human, her passion for travel and love to those who accompanied him in many corners of the globe and has become his wife shortly before his death.
"... During our stay pleasant on earth, María Kodama and I have traveled and done many delights of our country, which resulted in many photographs and in many texts. " [ 1]
With these words of the prologue of the " Atlas " of the writer, that exposure Atlas Borges began to immerse the visitor in a journey through the cities of the world through pictures and texts.
Photos taken by Maria Kodama are accompanied by texts of the writer. Curious union of image and speech, as if the image does not in itself sufficient, literature completes this magical world that the image sometimes can not describe, to save trouble real. Result of the merger that existed between these two people and happens to bring out the magic of each place. The look of the one and the thought of another look and thought merged in the particular scope in each location.
Thus a river confluence of thoughts to give, for example, a description of a city like Geneva, where the thought of the writer intrudes into the most intimate aspects of the city, to capture its spirit, its essence, its very reason to exist as such:
"Unlike other cities, Geneva is not pompous. Paris is aware that is Paris, London the decorous knows she is in London, Geneva barely knows she is Geneva. The long shadows of Calvin, Rousseau, Amiel and Ferdinand Hodler are there but nobody talks about the traveler. " [2]
The texts of the Atlas "show us that he looked, considered every place he traveled as an entity that speaks for itself. His gaze landed on a writer details the most overlooked of these places, not so much the aesthetic side, Rather, what interested Borges was "the raison d'être"
"In every city there are fountains, but their purpose is very diverse. In Arab countries they meet an old nostalgia deserts, where people know that poets sang the tank and the oasis. In Italy, they seem to satisfy this desire of beauty peculiar to the Italian soul " [3]
Thus, the texts in the exhibition, we understand the complexity in reading of Borges' work does not come from the complicated topics, but its special to look at what could be simpler and penetrate into the essence of each thing. Superficiality, which distracts the eye can detect, does not interest him, what he wants to take it's intimate, profound, something that the curious gaze is not afraid to linger.
Suddenly, the fear of addressing the writer disappears, we become the intellectual man on earth who is not afraid to discover.
[1] Jorge Luis Borges, Prologue to the book Atlas.
[2] Jorge Luis Borges Atlas "Geneva".
[3] Jorge Luis Borges, Atlas "Fountains".
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