El cementerio marino
by Paul Valéry
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Traducción del mítico poema de Valéry, que tras su publicación en 1920 no tardó en convertirse en uno de los puntos de referencia de obligada lectura.Tags
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Otra vez esos poemas que necesitan ser explicados para que uno se entere de algo, para regocijo de los enterados del mundo. El que da título a este volumen, al parecer, tiene el mérito de que fue escrito empezando por un mero ritmo al que Valéry fue poco a poco llenando primero de simples sílabas y luego de palabras hasta darle un significado; está inspirado por la imagen de su pueblo de origen, cuyo cementerio está situado al borde mismo del mar.
Además de ese y de otros poemas más breves, este volumen incluye el principal poema largo del autor francés, "La joven Parca", en el que parece dedicarse a glosar "el drama del nacimiento y la metamorfosis de la conciencia humana", como dice el introductor. Pues bien, pero demasiado show more abstracto, demasiado oculto, demasiado hermético para mi gusto. Uno es así, qué le vamos a hacer. show less
Además de ese y de otros poemas más breves, este volumen incluye el principal poema largo del autor francés, "La joven Parca", en el que parece dedicarse a glosar "el drama del nacimiento y la metamorfosis de la conciencia humana", como dice el introductor. Pues bien, pero demasiado show more abstracto, demasiado oculto, demasiado hermético para mi gusto. Uno es así, qué le vamos a hacer. show less
Apr 22, 2026Spanish
Este autor era un maestro de la fantasmagoría y atribuía a un espíritu del mar -algo así como un moderno Neptuno- la idea de amontonar en ese incomparable camposanto los barcos que se habían hundido en los diversos mares del mundo.
Apr 16, 2012 (Edited)Spanish
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Harry T. Moore has written in Twentieth Century French Literature to World War II: "Paul Valery, who published his most important verse between 1917 and 1922, is the greatest French poet the twentieth century has so far produced... .Few modern poets.. .have presented richer experience through their verses. Valery.. .could handle abstractions with show more a living and always poetic concreteness, and put them into comparable verse-music." He was also a critic and aesthetic theorist, interested in art, architecture, and mathematics. His skepticism, malice, and learning brought him both admiration and hostility. Valery had been a member of the Mallarme circle in the 1890s and wrote much symbolist poetry at that time, but an unhappy love affair caused him to fall poetically silent (he earned his living as a journalist) until Gide and others persuaded him, 20 years later, to publish some of his youthful work. He had thought to add a short new poem and instead wrote La Jeune Parque (The Young Fate) (1917), several hundred lines in length. It won him instant recognition in poetic circles. Several collections of his earlier poems were published in the 1920s, as well as the great Cimetiere Marin (Graveyard by the Sea), a powerful meditation on time and mortality. From then until his death in 1945, he wrote chiefly aesthetic theory, criticism, and an unfinished play about Faust. He helped to revive lively interest in the symbolists and had a pervading influence on French culture generally, though his poetry is not easy for the casual reader. His criticism and aesthetic theory had an important influence on the structuralist critics of the 1960s. He was elected to the French Academy in 1925. His Collected Works (1971--75) have been published in expert translations by the Bollingen Foundation. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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