Dear Rainer, What a comfort it is to hear you speak of our war in this way... no one understands that Russia, however involuntarily, stands in for Europe against Asia in this conflict - always forced into this middle position where it must endure the collision of East and West on behalf of all, as it did earlier in the time of the Mongols.... but what is truly tragic seems to me that its own deepest destiny... is almost exactly the opposite, namely, to fight through towards a synthesis, towards a spiritually fruitful union between Eastern and Western culture, instead of prolonging that fierce uncomprehending split which, for the rest of Europe, will probably last forever...
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mariátegui on rilke
Este juicio es fundamentalmente romántico e individualista. Supone que la obra del poeta se alimenta exclusivamente de su experiencia personal. De la riqueza y extension de esta depende el valor de aquella. El poeta es concebido como un mundo cerrado en el que se va sedimentando, poco a poco, lo bello. Pero este juicio tiene el defecto de que no nos explica sino un parte de la poesía. No abarca la totalidad del fenómeno… El poeta sumo no es solo el que, quintaesenciados, guarda sus recuerdos, convierte el individual en universal. Es también, y ante todo, el que recose un minuto, por un golpe milagroso de intuición, la experiencia o el emoción del mundo. En los periodos tempestuosos, es la antena que condensa todo la electricidad de una atmósfera henchida.
ensayos literarios, Jose Carlos Mariátegui, 1927, Lima
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