Literature
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andsaca369 after her frustrating experience into being interviewed .
It is written by a catholic priest, Ernesto Cardenal, which is also a poet:
Haven't you read, my love, in the News:
SENTINEL OF PEACE, GENIUS OF WORK
PALADIN OF DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
DEFENDER OF CATHOLICISM IN AMERICA
THE PROTECTOR OF THE PEOPLE
THE BENEFACTOR . . . ?
They plunder the people's language.
And they falsify the people's words.
(Just like the people's money.)
That's why we poets do so much polishing on a poem.
And that's why my love poems are important.
(Epigrams, 1961)24
Allow me to rec, what was one of my favorites novels, I loved it because it portraits the reality of dictatorship such as I felt it at age 17. It marks my turning point into adult books. The idea of magic is just awesome.
In his words the dictator is: the myth-man, the superior being, who fulfills the functions of the tribal chief in primitive societies, anointed by sacred powers, invisible as God. . . . The fascination he causes in everyone occurs outside of the boundaries of the chronological time. taken from http://www.crvp.org/book/Series05/V-2/chapter_vii.htm
taken from http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/asturias.htm
The society of the novel is corrupted; evil spreads downwards from the ruler. Justice is a mockery, and army officers spend their time plotting or in brothels.
El Señor Presidente utilized surrealistic techniques; it reflected Asturias's idea that Indians' nonrational perception of reality is an expression of the subconscious forces, the collective dream of mankind.
"In the city of Copan, the King walks his silver-skinned does in the Palace gardens. The royal shoulder is adorned with a jewelled feather of nahual. He wears on his breast magic shells, woven upon golden thread." The story is partly based on real events, although it has no precise time or locale. Estrada Cabrera, the dictator of Guatemala from 1898 to 1920, made his political adversary, Manuel Paz, believe that Paz's wife had been unfaithful to him. In the novel, set in the unnamed capital of an unnamed state, the President tries to eliminate two of his enemies, General Canales and a lawyer, Carvajal. The General manages to escape, and the President's favorite, Miguel Cara de Ángel falls in love with his daughter, Camila. General Canales dies of heart failure on reading a false newspaper report that the President had attended his daughter's wedding; Cara de Ángel is arrested and he receives a false report that Camila has become the President's mistress.
--"An angel!" The wood-cutter couldn't take his eyes from him. "An angel," he repeated, "an angel!"
--"It's obvious from his clothes that he's very poor," said the newcomer. "What a sad thing it is to be poor!"
--"That depends; everything in this world depends on something else. Look at me; I'm very poor; but I've got my work, my wife and my hut, and I don't think I'm to be pitied," stammered the wood-cutter like a man talking in his sleep, hoping to ingratiate himself with this angel, who might recompense his Christian resignation by changing him from a wood-cutter to a king, if he so wished. And for a second he saw himself dressed in gold, with a red cloak, a crown on his head and a scepter set with jewels in his hand. The rubbish dump seemed far away..."
(from Mr. President) ...
I more boring news. Hubby take the kids to school, my classes start at 9:40 so I decided to sleep just a little more….I never get up on time. Thanks God hubby pick my class, send them to research in the library and no body was any wise. Ops!
andsaca369 after her frustrating experience into being interviewed .It is written by a catholic priest, Ernesto Cardenal, which is also a poet:
Haven't you read, my love, in the News:
SENTINEL OF PEACE, GENIUS OF WORK
PALADIN OF DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
DEFENDER OF CATHOLICISM IN AMERICA
THE PROTECTOR OF THE PEOPLE
THE BENEFACTOR . . . ?
They plunder the people's language.
And they falsify the people's words.
(Just like the people's money.)
That's why we poets do so much polishing on a poem.
And that's why my love poems are important.
(Epigrams, 1961)24
Allow me to rec, what was one of my favorites novels, I loved it because it portraits the reality of dictatorship such as I felt it at age 17. It marks my turning point into adult books. The idea of magic is just awesome.
In his words the dictator is: the myth-man, the superior being, who fulfills the functions of the tribal chief in primitive societies, anointed by sacred powers, invisible as God. . . . The fascination he causes in everyone occurs outside of the boundaries of the chronological time. taken from http://www.crvp.org/book/Series05/V-2/chapter_vii.htm
taken from http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/asturias.htm
The society of the novel is corrupted; evil spreads downwards from the ruler. Justice is a mockery, and army officers spend their time plotting or in brothels.
El Señor Presidente utilized surrealistic techniques; it reflected Asturias's idea that Indians' nonrational perception of reality is an expression of the subconscious forces, the collective dream of mankind.
"In the city of Copan, the King walks his silver-skinned does in the Palace gardens. The royal shoulder is adorned with a jewelled feather of nahual. He wears on his breast magic shells, woven upon golden thread." The story is partly based on real events, although it has no precise time or locale. Estrada Cabrera, the dictator of Guatemala from 1898 to 1920, made his political adversary, Manuel Paz, believe that Paz's wife had been unfaithful to him. In the novel, set in the unnamed capital of an unnamed state, the President tries to eliminate two of his enemies, General Canales and a lawyer, Carvajal. The General manages to escape, and the President's favorite, Miguel Cara de Ángel falls in love with his daughter, Camila. General Canales dies of heart failure on reading a false newspaper report that the President had attended his daughter's wedding; Cara de Ángel is arrested and he receives a false report that Camila has become the President's mistress.
--"An angel!" The wood-cutter couldn't take his eyes from him. "An angel," he repeated, "an angel!"
--"It's obvious from his clothes that he's very poor," said the newcomer. "What a sad thing it is to be poor!"
--"That depends; everything in this world depends on something else. Look at me; I'm very poor; but I've got my work, my wife and my hut, and I don't think I'm to be pitied," stammered the wood-cutter like a man talking in his sleep, hoping to ingratiate himself with this angel, who might recompense his Christian resignation by changing him from a wood-cutter to a king, if he so wished. And for a second he saw himself dressed in gold, with a red cloak, a crown on his head and a scepter set with jewels in his hand. The rubbish dump seemed far away..."
(from Mr. President) ...
I more boring news. Hubby take the kids to school, my classes start at 9:40 so I decided to sleep just a little more….I never get up on time. Thanks God hubby pick my class, send them to research in the library and no body was any wise. Ops!
