Mittwoch, 4. September 2024

04.09.2024 - V. Aleixandre and Nobel L. 1977 and bodily weakness & living torch etc.

dali48 and writing diary & books and photographing near spa house in BAD, 8/2010



25.04.2008 - Interpretation von dali48
From early youth his restlessness of which I have spoken lifted me to one particular delight:
reading and, in time, writing. - The destiny of my life, its direction, was determined by a bodily weakness. - I became seriously ill of a chronic complaint. - I had to abandon all my other concerns, - those which I might call corporal, and to retreat to the countryside, - far from my former activities. - The vacuum thus created was soon evaded by another activity which did not call for physical exertion and could easily be combined with the rest that the doctors - had ordered me to take. - This unforgettable, all-conquering invasion was the practice of letters; poetry occupied to the full the gap of activity. - I began to write with complete dedication and it was then, only then, that I became possessed by the passion which was never to leave me. - Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. - Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost:
that of solidarity with the rest of mankind. Since that time I have always proclaimed that poetry is communication, in the exact sense of that word. - Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. Each poem, each book is demand, a solicitation, an interrogation, and the answer is tacit, implicit, but also continuous, and the reader gives it to himself through his reading. - It is an exquisite dialogue in which the poet questions and the reader silently gives his full answer. - His (author) fundamental mission is, to use a different metaphor, to pass on a living torch to a younger generation - which has to continue the arduous struggle ... (V. Aleixandre, Nobel L. 1977)
Vicente Aleixandre y Merlos (* 26. April 1898 in Sevilla; † 14. Dezember 1984 in Madrid) war ein spanischer Lyriker und Träger des Nobelpreises für Literatur 1977. ... Informationen der Nobelstiftung zur Preisverleihung 1977 an Vicente Aleixandre (englisch); Übersicht der Werke von Vicente Aleixandre im spanischen ...
see dali48 and reading & writing about the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1957 Albert Camus to Fosse (2023) etc.

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