THE ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT
AND / OR LIGHT OF DIOGENES
By JUAN CARLOS CESPEDES
Athens, ten o'clock in the year 380 BC, the distance is coming to an older man quizás pueda tener 60 años, muchos lo llaman peyorativamente “perro”, aprovechando algunas sutilezas del lenguaje griego. Trae una lámpara encendida, esto causa admiración, pues estamos a pleno día y la misma no se necesita, pues el sol alumbra potente con sus rayos la ciudad. Alguien le pregunta por esta excentricidad y sólo contesta que está buscando al hombre honesto.
La verdad siempre ha tenido enemigos, no porque ella sea relativa, sino porque es propio de muchos hombres ser relativos con la verdad.
Todavía hoy se discute si el escritor debe o no participar en política, y se esgrimen teorías en ambos bandos, algunas respetables, otras no tanto. Pero es, en resumidas cuentas, a very personal decision, on which I would not, nor will I refer, that human beings have enough with himself and tireless voice within.
From the moment a man or a woman, takes literature as its supreme reason for being, in one form or another encounter with the power, and can call whatever form it takes, which are many and varied hazards. We all know the power of the word, examples are there for all: Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed, Gandhi, Luther King, Gaitán (What a coincidence that almost all were killed!) And many others that you know well.
always been the elimination of such a way to impose the first criterion propio contra la opinión que nos molesta. Todavía se escucha el golpe seco en la cabeza de Abel, la orden de Enrique VIII de decapitar a Tomás Moro, la voz de “fuego” contra Federico García Lorca, la muerte en la cárcel de Miguel Hernández, el atentado contra Luís Carlos Galán y la lista sería interminable. Pero hay otros modos de morir, como la persecución, el exilio y formas mucho más sofisticadas dependiendo de la mentalidad perversa y criminal del perseguidor de turno.
Siendo la literatura una actividad solitaria en su génesis, el escritor es dado a ser un individualista, esta circunstancia permite que en determinado momento de su vida, el Poder, del que les hable antes, lo encuentre isolated and defenseless against the hungry maw of the monster. To prevent these situations
steps have been taken globally in the sense of organizing writers parliaments, where thanks to the solidarity of all the artists (novelists, poets, etc.) Help some brothers are disgraced for his work, your opinion or positions on various facts. Too familiar with the case of Salman Rushdie, but there are stories like the writer of Algeria, Aisa Lemsine, the Palestinian Riad Beida, originally from Bangladesh author Taslima Nasreen, in short, the inventory would be exhausting and no time for it.
Today we are witnessing a Parliament of Writers that reaches its sixth edition and which I was chosen President, more for your kindness to their own merits, and experience tells me that we are falling short on what is and should be a parliament. A parliament is not primarily an occasion where you meet friends and socialize on the latest literary fashion, to present the latest work, etc., That's why there are meetings and festivals. A parliament is essentially political and where writers, poets, and intellectuals, come to take the pulse of the situation in the country and the world, to ensure the conditions of persecution of friends and colleagues, who have to leave the country for their positions and actions of those who have to move house because you do not have economic privileges to travel abroad and save their lives, the various forms of censorship that will never fail, and so many ills that afflict the family of letters. Moreover, no situation can never be three days a year, because at this time no specific targets are met for which it was created. And Central America has made great progress in the organization of Parliament or Congress of Writers, also in 2006 was created Hispanoamericano Parliament of Writers in Mexico, initiated by the poet José Emilio Pacheco, in Brazil there is also progress in this sense. That is, around the world has concluded that the writers must join together to have some ability to confront and resist the power, whatever form it takes.
Today I invite you to reflect on the meaning and Parliament do something large, functional or otherwise, we shall see in a year and a toast with a glass of wine for another great opportunity that has gone. Now
Diogenes with his lamp on each of us, and the question we must ask is: when you get off me "Diogenes your lamp?
AND / OR LIGHT OF DIOGENES
By JUAN CARLOS CESPEDES
Athens, ten o'clock in the year 380 BC, the distance is coming to an older man quizás pueda tener 60 años, muchos lo llaman peyorativamente “perro”, aprovechando algunas sutilezas del lenguaje griego. Trae una lámpara encendida, esto causa admiración, pues estamos a pleno día y la misma no se necesita, pues el sol alumbra potente con sus rayos la ciudad. Alguien le pregunta por esta excentricidad y sólo contesta que está buscando al hombre honesto.
La verdad siempre ha tenido enemigos, no porque ella sea relativa, sino porque es propio de muchos hombres ser relativos con la verdad.
Todavía hoy se discute si el escritor debe o no participar en política, y se esgrimen teorías en ambos bandos, algunas respetables, otras no tanto. Pero es, en resumidas cuentas, a very personal decision, on which I would not, nor will I refer, that human beings have enough with himself and tireless voice within.
From the moment a man or a woman, takes literature as its supreme reason for being, in one form or another encounter with the power, and can call whatever form it takes, which are many and varied hazards. We all know the power of the word, examples are there for all: Socrates, Jesus, Mohammed, Gandhi, Luther King, Gaitán (What a coincidence that almost all were killed!) And many others that you know well.
always been the elimination of such a way to impose the first criterion propio contra la opinión que nos molesta. Todavía se escucha el golpe seco en la cabeza de Abel, la orden de Enrique VIII de decapitar a Tomás Moro, la voz de “fuego” contra Federico García Lorca, la muerte en la cárcel de Miguel Hernández, el atentado contra Luís Carlos Galán y la lista sería interminable. Pero hay otros modos de morir, como la persecución, el exilio y formas mucho más sofisticadas dependiendo de la mentalidad perversa y criminal del perseguidor de turno.
Siendo la literatura una actividad solitaria en su génesis, el escritor es dado a ser un individualista, esta circunstancia permite que en determinado momento de su vida, el Poder, del que les hable antes, lo encuentre isolated and defenseless against the hungry maw of the monster. To prevent these situations
steps have been taken globally in the sense of organizing writers parliaments, where thanks to the solidarity of all the artists (novelists, poets, etc.) Help some brothers are disgraced for his work, your opinion or positions on various facts. Too familiar with the case of Salman Rushdie, but there are stories like the writer of Algeria, Aisa Lemsine, the Palestinian Riad Beida, originally from Bangladesh author Taslima Nasreen, in short, the inventory would be exhausting and no time for it.
Today we are witnessing a Parliament of Writers that reaches its sixth edition and which I was chosen President, more for your kindness to their own merits, and experience tells me that we are falling short on what is and should be a parliament. A parliament is not primarily an occasion where you meet friends and socialize on the latest literary fashion, to present the latest work, etc., That's why there are meetings and festivals. A parliament is essentially political and where writers, poets, and intellectuals, come to take the pulse of the situation in the country and the world, to ensure the conditions of persecution of friends and colleagues, who have to leave the country for their positions and actions of those who have to move house because you do not have economic privileges to travel abroad and save their lives, the various forms of censorship that will never fail, and so many ills that afflict the family of letters. Moreover, no situation can never be three days a year, because at this time no specific targets are met for which it was created. And Central America has made great progress in the organization of Parliament or Congress of Writers, also in 2006 was created Hispanoamericano Parliament of Writers in Mexico, initiated by the poet José Emilio Pacheco, in Brazil there is also progress in this sense. That is, around the world has concluded that the writers must join together to have some ability to confront and resist the power, whatever form it takes.
Today I invite you to reflect on the meaning and Parliament do something large, functional or otherwise, we shall see in a year and a toast with a glass of wine for another great opportunity that has gone. Now
Diogenes with his lamp on each of us, and the question we must ask is: when you get off me "Diogenes your lamp?
