#maqroll

Sotto la luna Con Maqroll il Gabbiere Ci sono anch’io.

Hoy tengo una recomendación literaria para ti y una selección de frases de Álvaro Mutis.

En 2001 Álvaro Mutis murió. Yo no lo conocía y nunca lo había leído antes de esa fecha. Había escuchado algo sobre él pero nada que me llevara a su literatura. En esa ocasión, El País publicó un artículo especial sobre la vida del escritor colombiano y por ese entonces todos los domingos yo leía ese periódico. En fin, que leí el texto y hubo un nombre que quedó grabado en mi mente: Maqroll. El…

Sometimes I have the impression that everything that happens in my life comes from a marginal, ominous place no one else knows, a place that has always been meant only for me. I've grown so used to the idea that it seems to me I enjoy my brief moments of happiness and well-being with an intensity unknown to other mortals. Those moments restore me, they are necessary to me, and each time they occur I feel as if the world were just beginning. 

I interrupted to ask if every mine in the area necessarily had a sinister history. "Yes, senor, every mine has its dead. That's the way it is. An Indian who lived around here and told fortunes used to say there's no gold without a corpse, no woman without a secret."

I pointed out that the living are often deader than the characters in books, and I was so convinced of this fact that I couldn't even listen carefully to other people anymore, because I was afraid I'd wake them.