floor From the window of Paris' Julio Ramón Ribeyro could see the Place Falguière. From the balcony, while smoking a cigarette, watched the French side, that side of life. Watch people and at some point said: "Life is in humans, but humans are not life. "
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Ribeyro While Julio Ramón wrote the texts that comprise the volume then Prosas stateless, had no clear account of what he was doing, not the least in the English tradition share. His references were rather French. In his introductory note mentioned that I had in mind the Baudelaire's Spleen de Paris, but you can make a short list also citing tests Montaigue Michel, Pascal Les pensées, Cioran's texts and, finally, the cards of hundreds Francophone writers.
One might think that found the history, tradition assumed, the prose of JRR have a handle which can be read and understood without difficulty. Not so. It is not simply Transpolar one language to another certain forms of writing. And JRR knew quite well. Hence the modest distance assumed from the beginning with their French masters. From there, perhaps from modesty, that she would prefer to distinguish them and provide, inadvertently, one of the most original forms of literature in English. He said that these prose "itself lacked literary territory", for without doubt he was commissioned to give her one.
While his prose stateless editions has not abundant, the expansion of its readers has been overwhelming. No exaggeration to say that among many readers-Peruvians, most know the JRR of prose than of the stories. We could also say something similar of his diaries, recovered in the various volumes of The Temptation of failure, and published in Spain and distributed throughout the English-speaking half. The last edition appeared stateless Prosas 2007, under the seal Seix-Barral, in which we could call up to now, despite his death, the final edition, which brings together 200 prose, little more than twice what appeared in his first editing 1975.
The texts are mostly between 15 and 20 lines. You might think that the reflective nature of the prose of JRR part of the immobility, the author who studies leisure stationary parts. However, in my view, they arise from the opposition stillness / movement or a mutual dynamic sequence.
Many parts of the contemplation of his own apartment, your living room, his books, the various rooms, the balcony and much more. All within a seemingly motionless, for the same time, natural lights, the man, a bell that rings, are what give a new dimension to the observed. There is a kind of fascination and wonder that, paradoxically, arise from the consciousness of frustration by having a look fragmented, partial, unable to grasp the immensity of human nature and objects.
In other cases, we encounter prose that are based on JRR encounters with people known or not. People on the streets, leaving and entering the mouth of the subway. People bet on the bars of a bar, someone with a coffee, a glass of wine or take your lunch. The author is surprised faces, manners. Is at all times to assess the attitudes of others, of transience of gestures, knowing that there is knowledge / appreciation of the individual. At the end of the 32 prose read: "It seems that the face be organized around the eyes, and when it disappears, goes haywire."
course, is also a reflection on the craft of writing itself. Texts are not intended to rule on this task, much less. They are groping, confessions of frustration again, but which, suddenly, the glimpses are glorious, and in a concise and clear us to share their experiences. A notable piece is the prose appeared in 55: "I realized then that writing, rather than transmit knowledge, is to access knowledge. The act of writing allows us to apprehend a reality that until we had an incomplete, evening, fugitive or chaotic. Many things we understand only when we write. Because writing is scrutinized in ourselves ... "
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A first of May, referred to in the prose 157 JRR laments that Paris is empty, with few shops at hand. In his way home finds a snail in the middle of the track. He knows that, as a holiday, few vehicles passing by. But also choose to take it and place it in the middle of the sidewalk. Once there, seeing a few but dangerous passers-by the proportions of snail, make sure that it is inevitable that this little animal would be crushed. It's about time, says JRR, for the snail, for him, for us.
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