The 20th anniversary of the death in Madrid Juan Carlos Onetti have brought back to Buenos Aires for a few days to Dolly, his widow, who has provided materials exposure Revisiting Onetti, open until 25 November at the House of America’s capital. Claudio Perez and Raul Manrique Míguez Pigs are the curators of this exhibition which includes manuscripts, photographs and objects of the writer, an “intimate and emotional” tour of his own world, in the words of the first.
Y coinciding with the anniversary, ELMUNDO.es emits 20 minutes of the three hours that the ‘oceaniques’ third program on French television channel commissioned Ramon Chao and José María Berzosa . Aquelllos meetings were issued in 1990 and now, thanks to the generosity of Dolly Onetti and Ramon Chao, what this newspaper offers its readers. It is an exceptional document. Juan Carlos Onetti talks about his beginnings as a writer, military, his passion as a reader … And of course in bed.
Dorothea Muhr , Argentina of German descent and known to all as Dolly Onetti, was a wife and inseparable companion of Montevideo writer for four decades. While monitoring assembly, surprises visitors presenting Dolly herself. When you weigh the legs sitting on the bed where famous Onetti liked to read and write. She explains that it was always lazy, but his last years were due to recumbent problem of leg inflicted by a series of injections mismanaged
In addition, the bed seems an ideal place to Dolly to read, and the authority cited here Antonio Muñoz Molina , who is preparing a book on Onetti to be added to that published in 2008 Vargas Llosa , ‘The trip to the fiction ‘.
Are you bothered that tendency to shut Onetti when Dolly was a quicksilver? Was surprised by the question: “Extremes meet We compenetrábamos us very well because we were completely different He loved that I take care of everything was even willing for me to buy a house without even… see, in the end he got dressed and came to meet her, but paid no attention … “says
Around the bed of the author of the brief life gravitates a sample that includes all first editions. , dedicated books by other writers – Borges, Cortázar, García Márquez , Félix Grande …-, their food and discs recorded with his voice translations and manuscripts, correspondence …
The furniture is the original home of marriage at 31 Avenue of the Americas, where they arrived after two other temporary residence accommodation. Paca Félix Grande and Aguirre had gone to meet them at Barajas from his Uruguayan exile.
Dolly Onetti recalls his arrival in the capital in the mid-70s bubbling with joy at Madrid end of the dictatorship and she was crying, do not know whether to see young people here laughing in the streets or to remember the sadness and terror there, where cops were presented at four in the morning to take people and her husband , imprisoned for being part of the jury for a competition March seminar. That Dolly had to sell his house in Lagomar to cover the costs of psychiatric who managed to give replacing jail.
reader and compulsive scribbler , Onetti could wake at three am to dictate a letter. Dolly passed machine manuscripts until his fingers ached and he continued writing while anywhere in endless pieces of paper or on the top of a box.
The bell used to call girls service (Dolly was remarkable violinist and worked in the Madrid Symphony Orchestra), the globe that gave Dolly and George son of his first marriage and a writer like him, the chair sit-yes … All these objects make an exhibition, of course, includes the original edition of his first book, The Well illustrated with a drawing of a false Picasso , his friend Casto Canel, and your favorite novel, ‘Goodbyes ‘.
Onetti promised the worst evils who dared to steal the volume of Cortazar’s stories, dedicated, containing’ Tracker ‘story that moved him. For someone so elusive, the granting of Cervantes , or rather the act of picking it up, was a kind of trauma. ‘Gabo’ he sent a telegram to congratulate him that said: “The Academy is limping, but it comes.” Everything is in the exhibition ‘Revisiting Onetti: Twenty Years Later’, a feast for fans and fetishists great writer
How did the last 40 years in the cavity of Juan Carlos Onetti.? The best way to approach them is to read with Onetti. Onetti Dolly Dialogues, which is nothing but the conversations Claudio Pérez Miguez and Raul Manrique Giron remained with Dorothea Muhr and just released the limited edition Editors Center. “John spoke very slowly, as he wrote,” she recalls, as his visits to the psychiatric prison and where military Onetti locked up for three months. Or certain appearances: “He said that when he was walking down a long hallway had a revelation, and saw at once the history of ‘The Shipyard’ lightning, which was so strong it left ‘Body Snatcher’ and went totally to write. ” And if he complained about having to spend his writings Machine, John said that “Madame Tolstoy copied seven times ‘War and Peace’ and did not know how many millions of words. Several times and passed.” Quite a character. / M. Llorente
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