Rokha Paul of Wake
by Manuel Torres
..... Playing typical imaginative action "which would have made at this time if he were alive, it can be said to have been a strong supporter of the Popular Unity government, for its tenacious fight against the military dictatorship would have killed a thousand times and there would be no with the governments of the Concertación, and the Internet and a regular consumer would sopaipillas street with pepper.
..... If Rokha Paul survives in the midst of such neglect, ignorance and indifference is because it was mainly the young who have been found in his work and his life to a friend who was always in the harsh, because until the end of his days therefore maintained in its way of being and thinking, and never rubbed the back any literary critic or government of the day to push through his office.
..... The reading of his work during the eighties fighting was a staple in the literary workshops population, which was incubated a generation that absorbed their aesthetic difficult and courageous attitude of life, which still persists and multiplies.
..... October 10 was commemorated 106 years since "down from the mountains of Licantén to invade the city and keep restless. He brought a roar of thunder and drums, a new voice with something inside the stone as the winter the river channel Mataquito where he was born ", as defined, posthumously, the poet Alfonso Alcalde, five days after the suicide of Paul of Rokha.
His work in Chile and the world
..... Since he took his life 32 years ago with the Smith and Wesson revolver 44 which gave the president Lazaro Cardenas Mexico, where the road traveled together for freedom of Pancho Villa, his work is gradually gained in importance and respect, even among those who were his opponents.
..... Although its complex and often intricate work is not widely internationally, compared to other national poets, several years ago that the Cubans were interested in publishing the wing of Casa de las Americas, the "Epic of meals and drinks Chile. " In Spain, the publisher viewer also printed a poetry anthology, while in Venezuela, at the request of one of his daughters, have been printed several of his books and constantly talks and seminars are held about his work. During the last few weeks have walked by the country representatives of the Italian-French editorial archive, interested in publishing a critical compilation of our rotología doctor.
..... In his extensive work, it is very common that the first editions can be found in bookstores. Much of his texts were self-published in small quantities or not enjoyed success at the time. Such was the case of the "groaning", its inaugural and monumental piece that broke in 1922 with the whip of the outrage and derisive laughter in conservative scene. Most of the edition is sold by kilos, to wrap meat. It is also the case with "The writing of Raymond Contreras", which is only able to distribute fifteen years later because of Rokha had no money to pay the cost of publishing. Among the second-hand booksellers jokes that, unlike most writers, the most valuable texts of the "friend rock" are those that are not autographed.
..... This is because in many cases of Rokha, to stop the pot from his large family, grab a couple of suitcases with books and third-class train travel across the country offering door to door their texts to actuaries, restaurateurs, farmers and anyone who showed some sensitivity for poetry.
..... For its part, has been significant contribution Lom publisher has made to disseminate the poet's work tremendously. Has reissued, among other texts, "The groans" and a recent anthology. For it is announced shortly reprint of "U". In this sense it has been valuable editorial input from the University of Santiago de Chile, who has published several academic anthologies by the Nómez Naim. But surely a milestone in the dissemination rokheana were "cultural shots" taken at the University of Chile and the University of Santiago, on the centennial of his birth. On occasion samples were poetic, plastic music, circus, among other arts.
..... In addition, as part of the "Rokha to the streets", was distributed in the center of Santiago a contemporary edition of the magazine adjetivante ideological "multitude." Also, read, smoke marijuana and get drunk in the bowling of Alameda 777.
The cosmopolitan broken
..... Carlos Díaz Loyola, was the largest of nineteen brothers, who still lives Mary, 86. Of Rokha raised in a wealthy landowner and a Catholic family in the area of \u200b\u200bTalca. Due to the work of his father as administrator of customs cordillera of Curillinque, LAM and pity, he learned from small to ride, handle a Winchester rifle and know the world of thieves, smugglers, carriers and police.
..... He studied at the Liceo de Talca fiscal and Seminario Conciliar de San Pelayo was steeped in the Bible and Greek and Latin classics. There he earned the nickname "the friend Stone" and the 17-year-old was sent off for an atheist and rebel.
..... At 22 he fell in love with the writer Luisa Anabalón Sanders (Winnet of Rokha), whom he married despite the constraints imposed on their parents. From this union were born nine sons, Thomas and Carmen died prematurely: Joseph died of a brain tumor when he was thirty years, Paul committed suicide three months before his father with the same gun, Luko, Juana Inés, Laura and Blanca Flor are still alive.
..... Rokha Paul served as a salesman of agricultural machinery, fruits of the country charts, and professor of aesthetics and art history at the University of Chile. In their different skins, was forged the "clan of Rokha."
..... These terrestrial and mundane as avatars in particular tuned Left thought which joined Marx, Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Freud, Jung, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Whitman, among others.
..... For its strong anti-capitalist position and maintain a voice distinctly native earned the enmity of the official critics and most of the poets of his generation. Known is the "guerrilla" who always kept Huidobro and Neruda, whom he considered a "bourgeois left."
..... The death of his beloved Winnet was a blow: he was about to commit suicide and not only did it because he had to support their children.
..... Contrary to the image of the poet's good for the crest, the partying and good food, tells his daughter Luko we never saw, for example, fried eggs. Yet he knew very well how they prepared the dishes, so it was very good cooking instructor. That he liked the drink no doubt, but it was not a night owl person he knew very well that the day had to get up early to go to work or writing.
..... It is said that to celebrate its National Literature Prize in 1965, the festivities began early and lasted until five o'clock the following morning. The balance of the gastronomic journey was 40 kilos of Prieto, a lamb of 27 kilos, 30 bottles of red wine and dozens of sources with sausages and the Chilean CAUSE, pebre spooned with goat horn pepper.
..... On September 10, 1968, a crash alerted the clerk of the house of Valladolid, 106 Queen, and her infant daughter who accompanied her domestic chores. Something terrible had happened in the part of Paul of Rokha: he had fired a shot in the mouth.
..... On the desk of the poet there was no letter explaining his decision. Only were the gold rings from his wife and his Winnet.
..... However, it is known that the suicide of Paul, his son and private secretary, which occurred three months earlier in the same house, was deeply depressed. This, despite be drawn favorably to the prostate cancer that was two months in the JJ Aguirre Hospital. But the immediate reason for his decision, was that that day had to go into the psychiatric hospital to treat his depression.
..... Many years later, after negotiations with police, Smith and Wesson revolver caliber 44 was recovered by the family. However, the weapon was stolen some years ago in Venezuela, so it is likely that the current owner is unaware that the gun nut once turned against the biggest green eyes volcano has shaken this land
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October 20, 2000
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