Nelida Pinon | Photography: Flickr — Casa de América
Nelida Pinon, Brazilian writer and journalist born in Rio de Janeiro, passed away last December 17 in Lisbon at the age of 85. His of him are titles like thebes of my heart, The force of Destiny, The republic of dreams, One day I will arrive in Sagres o The epic of the heart. We remember her with these fragments chosen from his work.
Nélida Piñón — Life
De Celtic and Galician roots He graduated with a degree in philosophy from Columbia University and made his debut as a novelist in the 60s. A furtive tear, that he published in 2019, already when he was ill with vision problems, included fragments of his childhood in Galicia for a couple of years. He cultivated the narrative and the stories, but he also dared with the theater, criticism and essays. She taught classes as a professor at the University of Miami and debuted as a novelist in the early 60s with Guide.
He also received several awards including the Juan Rulfo Latin American Literary Award in 1995. And already in the 2000s he won the Menendez Pelayo and they gave him the Prince of Asturias in 2005.
Nélida Piñón was also the first woman to chair a literary academy in the world when he was in charge of the Brazilian Academy of Letters between 1996-1997. Undoubtedly, his figure is considered one of the most important in Latin American literature and his work has been translated into several languages.
Nélida Piñón — fragments of her work
desert voices
His sister's countenance disturbs Dinazarda. He judges it prudent to relieve Scheherazade of the pressure he exerts on her, of the stigma of being his copy. She caresses her fingers, her cheek, confirming that she will always be by her side. She that she does not feel helpless by complying with the inexorable laws of her trade. Hadn't it been she, Scheherazade, on the other hand, who had confessed that narrative incompetence is also the fruit of her experience?
After reviving his spirits, Dinazarda takes pains to talk about the garden, where, on his own initiative, he had baptized some avenues with the names of his sister's characters. Corners suitable as hiding places, propitious to live a forbidden love. Or to confess to her lover that the time had come to tell him that she no longer loves him, there is another in sight, a prince who suspends the meaning of her life, should he be absent from her. But not being an artist like Scheherazade, her contribution is to bring him faded brushstrokes of the Baghdad landscape.
Husband's shirt
Some of the hidalgo's confessions confused Sancho, such as when he told him that he was endowed with free will, an attribute that allowed him to distinguish between good and evil, and even gave him the freedom to narrate a story to which he printed the preferred version as long as it was respected. "a point of view of truth" narrative. Through these agreements, Don Quixote welcomed the sorrows of love, the successes, the failures and the disconcerting lies.
On the other hand, in the baptismal font, the gentleman's lady had received the name of Aldonza Lorenzo, but, because he was fond of reading books of chivalry and was used to heroes like Amadis de Gaula, he feared that such a name was incompatible with the outburst loving. Thus, by substituting the name of Aldonza for that of Dulcinea, that of Quijano for Quixote, and by calling his sorrel Rocinante, he gave life to his dreams, adjusted the world of La Mancha to suit him.
Bird of paradise
Once a week he visited the woman. To exalt herself, she said it moved. She believed it, and she welcomed him with chocolate cake, pear liqueur, and fruit picked from the orchard. The neighbors commented on those strange encounters, but she loved him more and more. He, guessing her easy life, apologized to her with her eyes, as if to say, how else should I love you. He ate the cake and refused the rest. Although the woman insisted. It's for ceremony, she thought, hiding in her shadow.
Source: elpdp