was the guy who was dared to get out of the pulpit to Borges to put on it to Walsh, said ...
"I believe that Walsh-and if this open debate, congratulations-transcending Borges. If you hurry me up I would say, is better than Borges.. "
resurgent Right now the controversy of the intellectual, ideology and other plants, so often discussed this issue here in this blog, if (mostly with the Nilda exegete) will miss his contribution to the debate as well as their texts controversial.
leave this text (again controversial) David Viñas well as reviving the paper today ...
Borges y Peron
By David Viñas
Their differences are known. That is why I would like to highlight their similarities, in his writings I think it could be, in principle, the same exclusion of history, which is manifested through the denial of class struggle in Perón and analgesic literature Borges. In one and the other is attending an escape from suffering and the drama inherent in everyday life: evacuation resulting in the Borges text, of its opposition to the "Center" tragic and dazzling, and Peron's documents, its need to erase anything that involves a ques-tioning. For if the writings of Borges does not give his readers but the immobilized, Perón's speech does not incorporate their best employees but are fixed. And if the essential movement of Borges is oriented towards the request, the Peron specializes in orders. Each other, I think, establishing a vertical space from top to bottom and back, which gradually excludes any horizontal dimension, unable to make a community is respected even after having seen their own misery, both prefer-each one based on values \u200b\u200band a different goal-that this community continues to ignore them.
In another aspect, the use of words, it seems useful to establish their mutual kinship with Leopoldo Lugones of the twenties, when Peron says "boys", is impregnated In Praise of the sword given by Lugones in 1924 on the occasion of the centenary of the Battle of Ayacucho, each time that Borges used the pejorative term "old boys", is returning to the semitones of Lugones of the country strong.
similarities could even set a timeline under "generational" predictable, familiar comparable climates and a shared history from the Tragic Week of Buenos Aires in 1919 to the years of the Infamous Decade (1933-1943). Real matrix formed at the two men in the period preceding their respective hatch, especially when taking into account the decisive influence of the presidency of General Justo (1932-1938), "uncle" of Peron and patron of Borges.
But in reality is the relationship of symbols between Borges and Peron what interests me in particular. Powerful symbols: concentration of elite-liberal line in Borges, the current incarnation of the national-populist Peron. Especially in relation to the two sectors of Argentina: the middle class and middle class liberal populist whose connotations are preferred Dr. Houssay, the man who spoke at the Sorbonne and polo sacred by the liberal-elitist, and trivialized tango , Old Gardel Vizcacha and operetta for the national-populist band. Two sectors which, if they face in their accession one to Borges, another Peron, often intersecting and agree: especially when it comes to exalt the symbol of a patriarchal virtues old Argentina reassuring and stereotyped.
happens that the vertical structure that I referred to both the Peron-like Borges-haul, both in the liberal-elite as populist nationalists, uncritical adherence, unconditional in most cases, church I would say. And with her all the implications of the star system and the star cult, philistinism, identification and projection stun, self satisfaction, unconditional. Heritage at best, do not bet. Could
said, to try to understand a little better than Borges and Peron "are two bourgeois." Two big bourgeoisie. And if you will, the two most famous bourgeois that has caused Argentina. They culminate with the literature and politics conceived in the initial programmatic core of 1845, as Perón and Borges, despite (and because) of its contradictions and its shades, are the perfect realization of this consciousness possible.
What I mean is that the variants that may bourgeois thought are endless. Endless possibilities of combination, but finite from ingredients which have been made and the proposition theory program, and, what concerns me today, exhausted. Because if their combinations can be made in an imaginary space (either Madrid or a story), its finiteness and depletion hatch in a historical space: today's Argentina.
That's why these great symbols that are Borges and Peron are no longer today (justifying, giving back and, so to speak, mythical) but a circular motion, which certainly will not escape by using the resources of the collage.
In 1981, the legendary French magazine Les Temps Modernes, founded by Jean-Paul Sartre, he devoted his number 420 to Argentina under the title "Argentina between populism and militarism." At that time, David Viñas signed article under the pseudonym Antonio J. Cairo.
Article just published for the first time in Castilian in the double issue of The Library, the journal of the National Library .
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