Library ENSAYÌSTICAESCRITOS REVIEW OF OSWALDO Paz y Mino Sándor Marai JDE ONE OF ITS GREAT NOVELASUn transgression catalog: "THE LOVER OF BOLZANO"
Sunday April 3, 2011
was a pending issue, reading aloud that had suspended in time, what we had known for reading from one of our favorite words, Sándor Márai. One that from the great works we have seen and heard and their literature reaches all the senses and the deepest recesses of the mind.
is a writer living freedoms suffered by the Nazis of Hitler and Stalin's Communists, with whom he was worse, according to first-hand account. The followers of Marx, Engels and Lenin tried to disappear his work, which in the end, of course, failed and mankind has been able to enjoy the masterful Hungarian author's pen. Registered trademark of repressive and intolerant of dissenting opinions, to point out of the way opponents with any vile act, have written in the history of dogmatic pointers sickle and hammer, who now seek to revive in our country and in other Latin America.
But let the book no more. Bolzano's lover is refined expressions Márai style as their personal brands are carved into the frame. Extreme and painful experiences that were part of his life is evident in the terror, loneliness, exile, of anger, emotional instability, pressed throughout the narrative and installed in the main character is Giacomo Casanova, the character chosen by the author as the epitome of the eighteenth century adventurer: "My hero is terribly similar to that globetrotting ready for anything, unpatriotic and against any apparently entirely unhappy at midnight on 31 October 1756 fell by a rope ladder from the Leads of Venice canal, accompanied by a friar named Balbi hung habits, fled the territory of the Republic to Munich. In my defense has said that the history and life of my hero so I do not care its vicissitudes as his fictional character. " (P. 7)
The adventure of living tightening rules out political power from the word. Insubordination to beat loneliness. The truth that immodest to expose the corrupt rulers or intolerant. The writer's craft described polemicist to bother the prudish society: "There are other writers who use the pen like a dagger or a sword, written in blood, bile spilled on paper. You can see them in their studies, with the nightcap on his head, you can see them while putting green to kings, from the lazy, the usurers and traitors. I myself have known a few. Once I was the ugly Voltaire. " (P. 67)
Bolzano's lover, one that from the first no nudity how to keep aloof. The passionate reader undresses at fojas who pass through its hands. Catalog is a novel narrated transgressions tied with particular subtlety, suppleness and sensuality. 281 pages of art writing calligraphy own a genius. Readers can not help but celebrate with joy the life of Sándor Márai. And the memory as a narrative, introspection to tell at present, a publication of this great company that is Salamandra Editors.
Biography Born in 1900 in Kassa, a small Hungarian town which now belongs to Slovakia. He spent a period of voluntary exile in Europe during the Horthy regime in the 20's, until they finally abandoned their country in 1948 with the arrival of the communist regime and emigrated to the United States. The subsequent banning of his work in Hungary was forgotten at that time who was considered one of the most important writers of Central European literature. Thus, it would have to wait several decades until the demise of communism for this extraordinary writer was rediscovered in his country and the world. Committed suicide in 1989 in San Diego, California, just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
