The "Pay me" in the wretched life of Paul of Rokha
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Philebus What month of 1894 was born, at last, Paul Rokha? "On 25 November, as his biographer says Fernando Lamberg, or 17 October, as stated Luko of Rokha, daughter of the poet? In the first case, De Rokha would be Sagittarius. In the second, would pound. Rokha Paul had a lot more like that of a pound Sagittarius. But let zodiacal superstition aside to address the issue of manners.
Paul's life was running Rokha not exactly a bed of roses. More precisely, ran on a bed of rocks. Rokha surname, incidentally, taken in his youth as a replacement for his civil name could not translate what he wanted or suggested it, instead of "rock", Rokha come to mean "red." So we would not be Rokha Paul but Paul's "Red." Thanks to the efforts of thoughtful people as Nain Nómez (not Lain Gomez), Juan Pablo del Rio and others, the work of Paul de Rokha, one of the three or four of Chilean poetry of all time, is unearthed in these days of the cemetery in which buried the ingratitude of a time to the amazement and interest of the young. According
Rokha Joseph, son of the author of''Morphology of terror ", for the most part the stories that dot the route of the poet in fact belong to the genre of the fable. In public explanation of what was the poet's family life, event verified at the America Hall of the National Library, the painter José de Rokha said that anecdotal appreciation of the poet alike rave dithyrambs specialists and teachers in diatribes . According to his words, he, his father was far from being the bully some megalomaniac who tried to highlight some. As a parent, a member himself of a cast of 22 children, some of which cut ropes and within hours of the morning, it was not easy to stop daily pot without diminishing the cloak of arrogance with which the transformer is usually dressed in the world . It costs a lot, in short, live while the poetic creation phase and the phase of the man who provides regular support theirs.
Indeed, the struggle for chickpeas English spoken by the characters displayed remarkably prosaic. The battle for poetry was usually the Lyrids former practicing a kind of celibacy. If the Mistral and Neruda have been filled with children (Rokha Paul was the father of nine), is safe for the fate of both lines would have shown less clear. Poor man, no poor man - "gentleman proletarian" as he liked to be known, Rokha Paul conceived the existence of a combat mode or colossal colossal against the unholy forces of philistinism.
Rokha Joseph recalled his childhood hours spent in a modest house of modest Caupolicán street, across the Mapocho. There is proved that the writer is an institution virtually unable to earn money. The pressing needs forced the father to appeal services agency effort (usually by a English countryman) located nearby. There were times when the children travel to the agency by Don Miguel, Don Pepe or whoever, was daily grind. Don Miguel and Don Pepe sported the conduct of a gentleman. Ascending values \u200b\u200bof the garment in bid to better serve struggling poet. In this way, going and coming, eighty dishes glassware lotecito was reduced to twenty. The knight agency efforts continued to pay the money as if it were the lot of eighty.
The most painful was when the father asked Joseph to go to pawn the most beautiful pair of shoes in the house: los zapatos que usaba precisamente Pablo y que, con verdadero amor, lustraba el propio José soñando acaso en un futuro de pintor brillante. Aquellos zapatos, tasados a ojo de niño por José en la posibilidad de un préstamo de 12 pesos, no lograron sacar en la realidad ni uno más que siete.La desilusión invadió al muchacho.
Pero todo eso no era terrible en comparación con el pavor que infundía un personaje de moda en dichos lugares y que no figuró jamás en nuestros libros: el “Págueme”. Según José de Rokha, el “Págueme” era un auténtico fantoche o cocoliche de carne y hueso, un mastodonte de hombre, vestido con ropa de etiqueta y tarro de pelo. This puppet came to the door of a house and uttered the great battle cry: "So and so, pay me." The insolence and shame annihilate the inhabitants. Owned by the merchants of the neighborhood, the "Pay me''was little resistance from neighbors who remained unpaid debts.
morning that the "Pay me" came to the house of Pablo de Rokha presaged lightning and storms. Through the windows appeared eyes. At that moment Joseph Rokha observed transfiguration of his father. At the raucous and shamelessness snort of "Pay me," Paul de Rokha was placed with another shout louder in front of aggressor dress. The poet took the staff that accompanied the collector costume and hitting them in the legs urged him to flee.
The embarrassing collapse of the "Pay me" discredited in the trade as unworthy place collection procedure. It would not get rid of troubles the poet's life difficult, but at least I would authorize that had defeated a great enemy.
Unpublished Writings of Paul de Rokha
Latest News / Monday 12 April 1999 by Philebus
Rokha
With Paul there was nothing more difficult to be objective ... As
he almost never was ... Nain
Nómez, which according to our data, failed to meet personally Rokha Paul has taken his commitment to the literary memory of the controversial literary master of modernism
in the exercise of executorship Chile.
unpublished writing does not leave Rokha Paul untested. From this search neat, as we read in a weekly Santiago, extracted three books: "Infinite against infinity," "Leather devil" and "Roar of Latin America."
Incidentally, there is a very solid book entitled William White "Leather devil." is an enduring collection of Zig-Zag stories published in 1966.
According to the chronicle tells Nómez scans through the records unpublished author of "world language", "... not everything he wrote from Rokha during the years 1967 and 1968 come to light in the new publication. Nómez recognizes that there is much secondary material (he was a prolific writer, author of 38 volumes) and several pages of diatribes against people of the time, apart from his public and mutual animosity with Pablo Neruda. For example, is expressed with respect to the known virulence
critic Hernán Díaz Arrieta (Alone) ... "
" A what Alone is homosexual, what for De Rokha was a major insult. Accuses him of selling out to Neruda and many other things, whether (or was, right?) For money, fame or status
.. .
recall certain expression which he used Carlos Droguett to disqualify the 60 Neruda: "It is already heating up food." Digging in the last file of a teacher who has written extensively and has published in abundance, whether by bringing up the culinary image of Carlos Droguett, is like trying to kill the hunger Rokha scraping the pot. In our view this is where you should not access the exegete ever.
For us, we had a loyal friendship Rokha with Paul, a friendship that allowed us to share the conversation full of candor about a tasty dish called chanfaina, the appearance of the Memoirs
was an absolute novelty so unexpected.
De Rokha never imagined writing memoirs. However, the presence of the poet and professor
Nómez in the boxes of the offspring of Paul of Rokha made possible the miracle of bringing together scattered pages that seem inarticulate and eventually formed the personal story telling
the great bard himself.
As we said at the outset, the objective was not the sign of Paul's greatest strength Rokha. With him in front of him, inevitably had to take sides. Curiously, the day in 1965 that took place at home to obtain the National Literature Prize, for his extensive comistrajo enjoyed friends and enemies alike. A crow flies in a score calculate the number of critics who ate and drank at the expense of big man generous.
That was Paul's Rokha: very chapel or fanatical in their views of literature, but quite extravagant in their expressions of love for others. That day the National Award, he was, Paul Rokha, the first to know that his modest home on the street kind Valladolid, La Reina, was visited by friendly hubbub once tenacious opponents.
measured in our opinion, where there is a substantial work that requires the attendance of willing rokhianos is in the pages of the magazine "multitude." In these pages, Paul Rokha
with this name or some other pseudonym, wrote essays remarkable, both in the field of criticism as in the controversy. Together in a volume such trials would result in a new book by the author's best vein "Arenga about art."
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