LVB

Veer Books, London 2013

Zurita, Raúl
LVB
Veer Books, London 2013
Reihe: Veer 055
Größe: 8°
Seitenzahl: 31 S.
Einband: Klammerheftung
Übersetzer: Rowe, William
Vorl. Spr. 1: Englisch
Vorl. Spr. Orig.: Spanisch
Monographie
Gedichte/Prosagedichte
Heft
'In Chile, the country of thirst, the deaf Ludwig Van Beethoven conducts the defeated orchestra while it disappears into the sky, leaving a line of blood in the horizon. All prophecy is useless when the waves smash onto a dead beach. Beethoven, disconcerted when nobody listens, hears and feels anything, thinks he can hear the sound of the sea but it is the same patrols, the same orchestra disappearing. The Chilean poet Raúl Zurita, in LVB, builds a poetics around the memory of his country's struggle against the Pinochet dictatorship in the 1970s and '80s. From this starting point he considers the manners in which memory lives on in language and how the dead might talk with the reader of poetry. The British poet and critic William Rowe's excellent translation achieves a transposition of word and tones that makes Zurita's struggle immediate for English-speaking readers.' (Jessica Pujol-Duran)

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