The Third Sunday May 8, 2011
Edwards Bello , the immortal
Chronicles Volume III includes assembled his writings from 1931 to 1933. Not only offers a fresh society of the time, also outlines the author and his obsessions. By Marcelo Simonetti
"My biggest concern when I write is not to be lateral," said Joaquín Edwards Bello on one of his chronicles. He says this because, in the days which he lived, there was widespread recognition that local books were a bore. "The bad thing is that writers write Chilean to win the Nobel Prize. It seems that target audiences pedantic, never take into account the man of the tram," he says in a kind of declaration of principles that, somehow, explains that immortality it enjoys, more than ever, considering the publication of the third volume of his reports made by Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales.
between 1931 and 1933, this collection of texts by Roberto Merino not only serves to make a cool society of the time, also to outline the author himself in his obsessions, ideas and world view.
"A Joaquín Edwards Bello liked thought of as the indomitable writer who desecrate the altar of classic and rejects the elitist pomp of high culture," he says in the foreword the historian Manuel Vicuña. Throughout these 732 pages, stories that address the importance of the Singer sewing machine, the chicken, the ideal man of Chilean women, Hippodrome, kennel or Cabro Eulalia, the author of The Girl in the Crillon much closer to the tram man of the academy.
In that plan, Edwards Bello is not responsible for the immortality of the crab but everyday questions.
"I therefore believe that the machine Singer has been a benefactor of the poorer classes." Ah, if I had my Singer sewing machine, "says the repentant woman," could earn enough .... "Because the sewing machine factory beans and weights, "he writes in one of his chronicles.
"The Chilean people are underfed, takes this act of eating without seriousness, ignoring their social function class (...) I've seen parents who sent their children naked, in winter, to buy gallons of wine at the office, at eleven o'clock at night, forgetting that it was time to eat and that these children were starving, "explains another.
Edwards's pen was never complacent. Sharp and incisive shot what he came to win." Our country has fallen prey to the conqueror, the slave trader and speculator, which is why the people are not nothing ever has, "he said. And cane gave this idea by pointing out that:" Europeans arriving in Chile not to be confused with the people, or become the working masses as in Argentina and Brazil, but become patterns, refer their earnings to their distant homelands and often return with them (...). The worker expressed this phenomenon in one of his melancholy and discouraging aphorisms: 'Leave the hole and go'. "
Also waged against the State, which is responsible for pampered and spoiled their children. Accustomed to this meets your needs, the Chilean lacks the fighting spirit that identifies Italian, Palestinian, Turkish and English, to name a few of immigrants entering the country. "The state must prepare to become less spoiled children and other beggars. The current generation was raised for this and one foreign billionaire without education has hired seven Chilean lawyers to help you cheat the state, "sentence.
Edwards Bello stops his gaze on disparate topics and that is where these accounts base their worth. Because if in a chapter devoted himself to detail the way in which newspapers or Shout the harmful "lies and falsehoods" that instills Hollywood girls ("a girl who goes to see these heroes of the screen will look, no doubt, common men and without marinade that passers-by as if they were slightly less ugly that bats "), in other details the difficult situation that the world with the resurgence of Germany, led by Hitler, the crisis in Havana and the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay.
But it is certainly in the portrayal of the Chilean where acuity reaches new heights. Without compassion, Edwards Bello mops with the "virtues" national compiling a stark profile: "Because, it is necessary to convince" the evil of Chile is Chile. We are irreducibly Malaz. Between us there is no glory or prestige, or respect as possible: what destroyed, annihilated, turn off everything. (...) I argue that this copy Feliz, the civilian, militarism, socialism, everything ends in cannibalism, because of how poorly educated they are. "
When pointing out the national character traits, Edwards Bello no doubt in place of envy in the first place, with the proviso that is greater in the upper class in the village, which has more developed the ability to admire. "Because of jealousy shorten the chances that we bring the world to be happy. Wishing you have neighbors, comparing our state with other people, hoping the disaster of having more and are happy we pave gradually our own ruin. " This feature
native has lived in the flesh, in the light of the attacks suffered. The surface charges it receives from its detractors have to baste the following explanation: "It's just that I'm paying, I'm simply purging the crime of being Chile. Because the felony of a man born to do and think is to be Chilean. Here reign constantly what he called a English writer 'disgusting equality of cemeteries. " Equality in anything, inertia, decay or death. "In this environment
Edwards Bello also concerned about the physical situation of the compatriots, how they eat, what to eat breakfast. Compare the diets of German and Chilean and Argentine with different habits from those inferred levels of development between us.
"The Chilean has lived almost always emboticado and hungry. The size of the population has declined due to lack of food (...) I remember being in Paris we were struck by a bad mood, the funeral character of most Chileans (...) Everyone was sick of the liver, kidneys, nerves. Everyone was talking about things tricky. Now a town that progress and conquest in any field is a town that eats well, "he says.
Written nearly 80 years, these accounts are still revealing and maintain the freshness of a writer who never aspired to be in letters mold and gained recognition with a simple recipe: writing what was happening on the surface was deep, the everyday writing became eternal.
Years agitated
Edwards Bello wrote these chronic convulsive years of history national. Between 1931 and 1933 Chile experienced a tremendous economic crisis, two coups, uprisings, the establishment of a Socialist Republic and the rotation of several leaders who had to take power temporarily.
After the fall of Carlos Davila, who was exiled in the United States in 1932, Edwards Bello writes: "I do not know what it is, but when all this cruel and vile public is primed to fall, whoever he is, to I like to scream: No! Dávila Viva! (...) The situation is the same as in 1828: anarchy, disorder, confusion. The Chilean known command and not obey. All are fought, actors, teachers, students, literary critics, musicians, painters, merchants, everybody, everybody. Chile had rope from Portales and Bello until 1891. Nothing more. After all is confusion. Dávila Viva! ".
After Arturo Alessandri won elections and took power in December 1932, Edwards Bello notes," In five months of stability as the country progresses amazing, trade gains confidence, the streets are beggars uncluttered day by day. Not to say that we have reached the ideal goal, but lack the desire for populachería, based on willful and systematic opposition to deny that, in a mad world, confused and vicious, we are an exceptional country (...) The old mold statesman has won the game on the illusions of the saviors of the country, based on texts and exotic experiments. We also believed in these sirens ....
Edwards Bello , the immortal
Chronicles Volume III includes assembled his writings from 1931 to 1933. Not only offers a fresh society of the time, also outlines the author and his obsessions. By Marcelo Simonetti
"My biggest concern when I write is not to be lateral," said Joaquín Edwards Bello on one of his chronicles. He says this because, in the days which he lived, there was widespread recognition that local books were a bore. "The bad thing is that writers write Chilean to win the Nobel Prize. It seems that target audiences pedantic, never take into account the man of the tram," he says in a kind of declaration of principles that, somehow, explains that immortality it enjoys, more than ever, considering the publication of the third volume of his reports made by Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales.
between 1931 and 1933, this collection of texts by Roberto Merino not only serves to make a cool society of the time, also to outline the author himself in his obsessions, ideas and world view.
"A Joaquín Edwards Bello liked thought of as the indomitable writer who desecrate the altar of classic and rejects the elitist pomp of high culture," he says in the foreword the historian Manuel Vicuña. Throughout these 732 pages, stories that address the importance of the Singer sewing machine, the chicken, the ideal man of Chilean women, Hippodrome, kennel or Cabro Eulalia, the author of The Girl in the Crillon much closer to the tram man of the academy.
In that plan, Edwards Bello is not responsible for the immortality of the crab but everyday questions.
"I therefore believe that the machine Singer has been a benefactor of the poorer classes." Ah, if I had my Singer sewing machine, "says the repentant woman," could earn enough .... "Because the sewing machine factory beans and weights, "he writes in one of his chronicles.
"The Chilean people are underfed, takes this act of eating without seriousness, ignoring their social function class (...) I've seen parents who sent their children naked, in winter, to buy gallons of wine at the office, at eleven o'clock at night, forgetting that it was time to eat and that these children were starving, "explains another.
Edwards's pen was never complacent. Sharp and incisive shot what he came to win." Our country has fallen prey to the conqueror, the slave trader and speculator, which is why the people are not nothing ever has, "he said. And cane gave this idea by pointing out that:" Europeans arriving in Chile not to be confused with the people, or become the working masses as in Argentina and Brazil, but become patterns, refer their earnings to their distant homelands and often return with them (...). The worker expressed this phenomenon in one of his melancholy and discouraging aphorisms: 'Leave the hole and go'. "
Also waged against the State, which is responsible for pampered and spoiled their children. Accustomed to this meets your needs, the Chilean lacks the fighting spirit that identifies Italian, Palestinian, Turkish and English, to name a few of immigrants entering the country. "The state must prepare to become less spoiled children and other beggars. The current generation was raised for this and one foreign billionaire without education has hired seven Chilean lawyers to help you cheat the state, "sentence.
Edwards Bello stops his gaze on disparate topics and that is where these accounts base their worth. Because if in a chapter devoted himself to detail the way in which newspapers or Shout the harmful "lies and falsehoods" that instills Hollywood girls ("a girl who goes to see these heroes of the screen will look, no doubt, common men and without marinade that passers-by as if they were slightly less ugly that bats "), in other details the difficult situation that the world with the resurgence of Germany, led by Hitler, the crisis in Havana and the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay.
But it is certainly in the portrayal of the Chilean where acuity reaches new heights. Without compassion, Edwards Bello mops with the "virtues" national compiling a stark profile: "Because, it is necessary to convince" the evil of Chile is Chile. We are irreducibly Malaz. Between us there is no glory or prestige, or respect as possible: what destroyed, annihilated, turn off everything. (...) I argue that this copy Feliz, the civilian, militarism, socialism, everything ends in cannibalism, because of how poorly educated they are. "
When pointing out the national character traits, Edwards Bello no doubt in place of envy in the first place, with the proviso that is greater in the upper class in the village, which has more developed the ability to admire. "Because of jealousy shorten the chances that we bring the world to be happy. Wishing you have neighbors, comparing our state with other people, hoping the disaster of having more and are happy we pave gradually our own ruin. " This feature
native has lived in the flesh, in the light of the attacks suffered. The surface charges it receives from its detractors have to baste the following explanation: "It's just that I'm paying, I'm simply purging the crime of being Chile. Because the felony of a man born to do and think is to be Chilean. Here reign constantly what he called a English writer 'disgusting equality of cemeteries. " Equality in anything, inertia, decay or death. "In this environment
Edwards Bello also concerned about the physical situation of the compatriots, how they eat, what to eat breakfast. Compare the diets of German and Chilean and Argentine with different habits from those inferred levels of development between us.
"The Chilean has lived almost always emboticado and hungry. The size of the population has declined due to lack of food (...) I remember being in Paris we were struck by a bad mood, the funeral character of most Chileans (...) Everyone was sick of the liver, kidneys, nerves. Everyone was talking about things tricky. Now a town that progress and conquest in any field is a town that eats well, "he says.
Written nearly 80 years, these accounts are still revealing and maintain the freshness of a writer who never aspired to be in letters mold and gained recognition with a simple recipe: writing what was happening on the surface was deep, the everyday writing became eternal.
Years agitated
Edwards Bello wrote these chronic convulsive years of history national. Between 1931 and 1933 Chile experienced a tremendous economic crisis, two coups, uprisings, the establishment of a Socialist Republic and the rotation of several leaders who had to take power temporarily.
After the fall of Carlos Davila, who was exiled in the United States in 1932, Edwards Bello writes: "I do not know what it is, but when all this cruel and vile public is primed to fall, whoever he is, to I like to scream: No! Dávila Viva! (...) The situation is the same as in 1828: anarchy, disorder, confusion. The Chilean known command and not obey. All are fought, actors, teachers, students, literary critics, musicians, painters, merchants, everybody, everybody. Chile had rope from Portales and Bello until 1891. Nothing more. After all is confusion. Dávila Viva! ".
After Arturo Alessandri won elections and took power in December 1932, Edwards Bello notes," In five months of stability as the country progresses amazing, trade gains confidence, the streets are beggars uncluttered day by day. Not to say that we have reached the ideal goal, but lack the desire for populachería, based on willful and systematic opposition to deny that, in a mad world, confused and vicious, we are an exceptional country (...) The old mold statesman has won the game on the illusions of the saviors of the country, based on texts and exotic experiments. We also believed in these sirens ....
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