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“Entre la memoria y la realidad hay discrepancias incómodas ...”

—  Eileen Chang

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Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies…

2. "Writing of One's Own" (pp. 17–18)
Liuyan [《流言》] (1968)
Contexto: In this era, the old things are being swept away and the new things are still being born. But until this historical era reaches its culmination, all certainty will remain an exception. People sense that everything about their everyday lives is a little out of order, out of order to a terrifying degree. All of us must live within a certain historical era, but this era sinks away from us like a shadow, and we feel we have been abandoned. In order to confirm our own existence, we need to take hold of something real, of something most fundamental, and to that end we seek the help of an ancient memory, the memory of a humanity that has lived through every era, a memory clearer and closer to our hearts than anything we might see gazing far into the future. And this gives rise to a strange apprehension about the reality surrounding us. We begin to suspect that this is an absurd and antiquated world, dark and bright at the same time. Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies, producing a solemn but subtle agitation, an intense but as yet indefinable struggle.

Última actualización 29 de enero de 2021. Historia
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escritora china 1920–1995

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“A mi entender, y más allá de las distintas definiciones acerca de este género literario o de las absurdas discrepancias académicas sobre su constitución o taxonomía, el cuento es ante todo un arte experiencial.”

José Baroja (1983) Escritor y editor chileno

Fuente: Grupo Ígneo. Entrevista. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/jose-baroja-el-cuento-es-un-trago-breve/

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