Frases de Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood es una prolífica poeta, novelista, crítica literaria, profesora y activista política canadiense. Es miembro del organismo de derechos humanos Amnistía Internacional y una de las personas que presiden BirdLife International, en defensa de las aves. En la actualidad divide su tiempo entre Toronto y Pelee Island, en Ontario.



«Acabo de terminar un nuevo libro. Se va a publicar en 2009 y se llama Payback, algo así como tomar una represalia y luego obtener algo a cambio; la mejor palabra para traducirla sería "revancha". Tiene que ver, no con el dinero, sino con el equilibrio y la justicia. También toma el tema de la venganza y de la deuda con la naturaleza. El Payback tiene un subtítulo que hace referencia a lo oscuro y siniestro de la riqueza».

✵ 18. noviembre 1939   •   Otros nombres Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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El cuento de la criada
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Frases célebres de Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood Frases y Citas

“Mejor nunca significa mejor para todos, comenta. Para algunos siempre es peor. Me”

El cuento de la criada
Variante: Mejor nunca significa mejor para todos, comenta. Para algunos siempre es peor.

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“Trump consiguió que la gente tuviera más miedo a Hillary que a él. Y lo consiguió con el simple método de no decir nunca qué iba a hacer, más allá de cinco conceptos muy básicos y de aplicación imposible.”

Fragmento de una entrevista para El Periódico.
Fuente: El futuro según Margaret Atwood. Enrique de Hériz El Periódico 16 de noviembre de 2016 http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/margaret-atwood-por-ultimo-corazon-nueva-novela-5632880 Consulta 21 de abril de 2017

“Es verdad, escribo un poco a salto de mata.”

Fragmento de una entrevista en El Cultural.

Margaret Atwood: Frases en inglés

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

Contexto: "Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine. (I love that wonderful rhetorical device, "a male friend of mine." It's often used by female journalists when they want to say something particularly bitchy but don't want to be held responsible for it themselves. It also lets people know that you do have male friends, that you aren't one of those fire-breathing mythical monsters, The Radical Feminists, who walk around with little pairs of scissors and kick men in the shins if they open doors for you. "A male friend of mine" also gives — let us admit it — a certain weight to the opinions expressed.) So this male friend of mine, who does by the way exist, conveniently entered into the following dialogue. "I mean," I said, "men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power." "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said. "Undercut their world view." Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”

Margaret Atwood libro El cuento de la criada

Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale

“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.”

Margaret Atwood libro The Blind Assassin

Fuente: The Blind Assassin

“After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing”

On Writing Poetry (1995)
Contexto: After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight

“My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.”

Margaret Atwood libro Morning in the Burned House

Morning in the Burned House (1995), The Loneliness of the Military Historian
Contexto: Instead of this, I tell
what I hope will pass as truth.
A blunt thing, not lovely.
The truth is seldom welcome,
especially at dinner,
though I am good at what I do.
My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.

“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.”

Margaret Atwood libro The Blind Assassin

Fuente: The Blind Assassin (2000)
Contexto: All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. …Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.

“War is what happens when language fails.”

Margaret Atwood libro The Robber Bride

The Robber Bride (1993), Ch. 6

“Do not let the bastards grind you down.”
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Margaret Atwood libro El cuento de la criada

Variante: Do not let the bastards grind you down.
Fuente: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 9 (p. 52)
Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale

“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

Margaret Atwood libro Bluebeard's Egg

Fuente: Bluebeard's Egg

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”

Margaret Atwood libro El cuento de la criada

Variante: We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Fuente: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 10 (p. 56)
Fuente: The Handmaid's Tale

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