The things I’m recycling are things for work from long ago, when I couldn’t work. I couldn’t look at them for a long time because they brought me face to face with what was happening then and because I so missed the person I had been before. Now that I am partly revived I can see them more objectively, as things I don’t need any more, but some of them are signed or have other notes attached, signs of love.
Eventually I will get rid of notes and manuscripts but now it is just photocopies.
- Things from AULA VALLEJO, but I have those journals now. They include commentary on Vallejo’s essays, which were much harder to get to see in those days.
- Articles from the 70s, 80s, 90s on vanguardias, by classic people, like Müller-Bergh on Mandrágora in Revista chilena de literatura, hard to get then
- A 1985 issue of Vuelta! It has a long piece on poetry and modernity by Haroldo de Campos, translated by Néstor Perlongher.
- Stanford Italian Review VIII, 1-2, 1990, on fascism and culture. I had it for Jeffrey Schnapp’s work on Futurism, which I was using to work on Brazil, but there is a piece by Russell Berman and one by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and more.
Yes, I’m interested in this field. I myself just never really had rich enough soil to take root. It does seem to be what I want to do now. I think.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 