If I start to speak with ghosts
of words and tricks, random,
come, trembling with surprise,
to invent the truth ... Xavier Villaurrutia
When German physicist Albert Einstein is credited with sentence: "The chance does not exist, God does not play dice with the universe." I can violate this statement.
The island of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, was known for many years as the Kingdom of Serendip. In 1557 the Italian writer Christoforo Armeno wrote a story about three brothers who were unintentionally fortunate discoveries. That story was later known under the title "The Three Princes of Serendip", although sometimes distorts his own. One person who read the story of Christoforo Armeno was the writer Horace Walpole, author of The Castle of Otranto, "and so enjoyed the story in 1754, coined the word serendipity [1] . Walpole used the new term for happy gatherings are achieved partly by accident, partly by paying attention to small details. Walpole
After no one else used the word serendipity to the mid-twentieth century. Those who were resumed, mostly scientists to describe accidental discoveries originated by chance. For example, it is said that Isaac Newton discovered gravity when he saw an apple fall. Did not mean that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin when they accidentally contaminated a culture, or Niels Bohr deciphered the structure of the atom after the dream. Through serendipity, 3M laboratories became millionaires by neglecting the production of glue: those responsible for quality control forgot to add a component during the manufacturing process and resulted in poor quality adhesive that was later used in the famous slips for Post-it sticky notes.
some dictionary definitions English language for the word serendipity they are: "... the occurrence and development of random events in a happy or beneficial way" [2] , "... when they accidentally made interesting or valuable discoveries" [3] . The term is not included in the dictionary of the Royal Academy of English Language, but Manuel Seco, in his Dictionary of Current English, gives this definition: "... power to make a discovery or a lucky find by accident." To better understand the serendipity can say that looks like a fluke, defined as a "fluke." In summary, Serendipity is the science of chance.
was a serendipity that took me fifteen years ago, even a book titled Love is class Oscar de la Borbolla (Mexico City, birth date uncertain), which was later reissued as God does play the dice. In this book I read the story "The corners of chance" [4] . In the story two phones ring simultaneously, the respective owners (a painter and a lawyer), unknown to each other, answer the call and developed a dialogue like this: "Well
of words and tricks, random,
come, trembling with surprise,
to invent the truth ... Xavier Villaurrutia
When German physicist Albert Einstein is credited with sentence: "The chance does not exist, God does not play dice with the universe." I can violate this statement.
The island of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, was known for many years as the Kingdom of Serendip. In 1557 the Italian writer Christoforo Armeno wrote a story about three brothers who were unintentionally fortunate discoveries. That story was later known under the title "The Three Princes of Serendip", although sometimes distorts his own. One person who read the story of Christoforo Armeno was the writer Horace Walpole, author of The Castle of Otranto, "and so enjoyed the story in 1754, coined the word serendipity [1] . Walpole used the new term for happy gatherings are achieved partly by accident, partly by paying attention to small details. Walpole
After no one else used the word serendipity to the mid-twentieth century. Those who were resumed, mostly scientists to describe accidental discoveries originated by chance. For example, it is said that Isaac Newton discovered gravity when he saw an apple fall. Did not mean that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin when they accidentally contaminated a culture, or Niels Bohr deciphered the structure of the atom after the dream. Through serendipity, 3M laboratories became millionaires by neglecting the production of glue: those responsible for quality control forgot to add a component during the manufacturing process and resulted in poor quality adhesive that was later used in the famous slips for Post-it sticky notes.
some dictionary definitions English language for the word serendipity they are: "... the occurrence and development of random events in a happy or beneficial way" [2] , "... when they accidentally made interesting or valuable discoveries" [3] . The term is not included in the dictionary of the Royal Academy of English Language, but Manuel Seco, in his Dictionary of Current English, gives this definition: "... power to make a discovery or a lucky find by accident." To better understand the serendipity can say that looks like a fluke, defined as a "fluke." In summary, Serendipity is the science of chance.
was a serendipity that took me fifteen years ago, even a book titled Love is class Oscar de la Borbolla (Mexico City, birth date uncertain), which was later reissued as God does play the dice. In this book I read the story "The corners of chance" [4] . In the story two phones ring simultaneously, the respective owners (a painter and a lawyer), unknown to each other, answer the call and developed a dialogue like this: "Well
" Well
- Yes, I want to talk?
- How to whom I talk to if my phone just ring?
"Well, I have been the same, the lines must be broken.
From that moment the phone lines are crossed off and on, without a definite pattern, and the protagonists of history engage in a virtual friendship. They realize, later, that there is a person who always found on the street, where they will and, worse still, that this woman, that man is the friend phone. Frightened, they decide to retreat and turn off the devices, but find they are in love. Come to look for and never found.
In the same book I found another story that I was amazed by their format: "The umbrella of Wittgenstein ", in which the author sum it logical uncertainty. As the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, De la Borbolla structure your text into paragraphs that go from general to specific, while exploring all possibilities for a moment.
Based on philosophical theories, De la Borbolla shapes their stories and then experiment with scientific theories. The author addresses to the borders, to what is discovered, the limits of what will happen in the near future. That was how I found out that under the rationale lies the chance. And I speak not only of fiction: after the disposition of each atom in the universe show some degree of organization, there is a measure of uncertainty and disorder, is entropy. If the world works is that, on average, the order is more than chaos.
structures with which Borbolla From experience, however, are far from anarchy. Expertise is required to achieve texts that refute themselves, to reach the literary rebuttal that the author shows in his three novels: Everything is allowed, nothing that bad and life of the dead. In these texts are fiction discovered several levels: lines that lie out of the above and, in the words of De la Borbolla, transform the reader into an "accessory puzzled." Literary refutation causes the receiver to discover that what we imagined might not occur as it has been told.
To deny a text is needed on both the likelihood denied as in that challenging. The truth does not matter because, ultimately, a lie is more effective. In the Borbolla himself quoted Francis Bacon when he says that the only truth that we human beings is what we want. As Hans-Georg Gadamer says in his book Theory and method, reading is a process of interiority, the interpretation of a text is defined by the circumstances of the reader, the understanding is accompanied by the personal prejudices, the same prejudices that of the Borbolla criticized for being enemies of knowledge. Gadamer takes ideas Heidegger to explain that the interpretation of a text is tempered by expectations of meaning, contrary to what the text means "otherwise." From
Borbolla So put aside the "truth" to build new worlds, to build places out of time. French philosopher Charles takes the concept of Renouvier ucronia , the story might be, alternate history, one that would result in another reality, the possibilities of the past.
For several years, in various newspapers of Mexico City, De la Borbolla published, under the guise of stories and news articles, a series of Uchrony with premeditation and advantage. He devoted himself to provoke and mislead readers encandalizar while playing with the veracity and credibility of journalism and fiction. He himself admits that the weight given the format of a newspaper is not the same as a book. It is known episode in which the Royal English Language Academy, following the publication of "The evils of the Castilian" in the newspaper El País-ucronia in which the doctor explains Leonardo Zúñiga scientific arguments to ensure that English speaking cancer cause throat due to the placement of phonemes, "tried to sue the physician imaginary. Borbolla of these crimes is happy and shows that literature is provocative, seduction, desire. If love is to seduce a difficult issue, seduce a reader is much more. As Jean Baudrillard says: "Seduction is not desire but which plays with and mocks the desire of desire. Which overshadows the desire, makes it appear and disappear, up appearances in front of him to rush to his own end. " [5]
What alchemist, the author seeks the formula for eternal life. Under the slogan "no death", De la Borbolla want to correct the fact, transfigured. In the Manifesto Uchronics "calls to those who:
tear the belly with a knife Japanese, raise the cap of the scalp with a bullet, thrown into the precipice of a bridge, tabletting with cyanide, a stone tied around his neck blooming in waves on the surface of a lake fright thrown in the bed of a scented room with gas, sawing wrists in a public bathroom, sprayed gasoline on a forest where the fires are prohibited or open up a diversion to the open landscape of the canyon, or jump to the bottom of alcohol or opium fund or fund a memory or the merits of a book that is worth more than that is wasted daily. [ 6]
summons to speak out against "the pain and death, limited opportunities and lack of freedom to have many different lives and not be suffocated by none. " [7]
The uchronic used, in the words of Baudrillard, the "strategy of the absence of the elusive, of metamorphosis," consisting of the "virtual unlimited substitution, without reference chaining. Baffling, trapping evidence to disperse, to scatter the order of things and the order of reality .... " [8] says that "no one can cross off as utopian an output which has not committed all their forces" and proclaims: "For the triumph of life and extension of hope! / For the establishment of a new world! / For the total possibility of the impossible! / For the destruction of reality! / FORBIDDEN TO DIE! "
Like the texts of the Borbolla, death itself is denied to life (although the reverse is also true.) To defy the natural death, Borbolla uses a non natural: language. Uses the image of the "strange ideograms" are the words and numbers in a playful way: "And there she was also doing math with their coworkers, because the slender dancer seemed a 1, the guitarist, his legs crossed, a 4, the bartender drink beer, a 6, and Laura, acinturada as 8 .... " [9]
from language A, De la Borbolla given other attributes to their stories. Cut prayers to give speed as in the novel Everything is allowed: "It has cost me a fortune so cebarme Aguantate" he says to his young chief secretary chubby while the penetration. "It has cost me a fortune cebarme well, so Aguantate" would be the full sentence, the slower and subtract power of seduction:
A set of words is always a challenge, and refer to the seduction was triumphant in a production rigging also a challenge theoretical. The challenge, not the desire, appears in the heart of seduction. Is that what you can not stop responding while it is possible not to respond to the desire. Draws us beyond any contract beyond the law of change, beyond equivalences, in a bid that may never end. The challenge, seduction, are so much more than the pleasure principle, draw us beyond the reality principle. [10]
Seduction involves speeches, words and desires. As Rudyard Kipling said: words are the most powerful drug of humanity.
All Borbolla From experiments focus on the novel Life of the dead. The same author describes his work as a "total novel", which includes the reader as an active creator. With a character "expert take on the roles that chance offers" to whom chance has led to the death, the author gets us identify emotionally with his character
... the fact attach a sympathetic attitude or loving respect sympathetically about their work life, ie the concept of sympathy, or feeling part explained and understood in a manner consistent, radically destroys the principle purely expressive of artistic endeavor of the work takes a completely new look, takes place in a very different sense, and sympathy as pure abstract moment of this event is to be just one of the moments, and also a time extraestético ... [11]
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We ourselves through our affections, and Benito Correa, the novel's central character is, in this sense, a mirror. Correa is a kind of hero who takes on various life-uchronic part of the list of demands-to answer the question that has made mankind: why death? Correa is a bureaucrat beaten up by his wife, but it is the sailor Paul JOFER and drug dealer Tony Lugano: "The desire of glory organizes the naive hero's life and also organizes the story of his life uplifting. The aspiration for glory is a recognition within humanity's cultural history (or nation), and affirm and build their lives. " [12]
Despite his training as a philosopher, De la Borbolla going against their guild that only sees death all around: philosophers of the absurd. In a dead man's life makes the same character have different lives to go against death, even death itself. Navigate between the text contradicts itself and the fiction out of time, the ucronia, which becomes reality. Narra, in addition to the "real" story, the story possible, Uchronics, which could happen and not happen, discover what possible false, creates scenarios known to reach places never seen before, and explores the blurred boundary between fiction reality. Just to find the meaning of life, toward him.
When God plays dice cheat; From Borbolla also: experience with the language "to withdraw its intrusive presence," writes "a world to supplant this world" because it really disappoints. To demonstrate, Jaime Sabines would say that "there is only life."
In The Life of a dead there ucronia, because it includes all forms of existence that a character can take. There are literary rebuttal at the time we realize that the history we have given true, is false. There are games to language games are speed and the ideograms that make up the letters. Benito Correa is against death, at the precise moment when death touches.
After my first encounter with the literature of Oscar de la Borbolla not stop until I read everything that was published at that time. I must have 17 years when my mother, who knew my fascination with literature Uchronics-gave me a surprise: he had met De la Borbolla, had told him about me and him kindly sent me a message that reads: "I'm Oscar de la Borbolla and met your mom in a weird way. I loved knowing that I read, I hope one day we will meet even stranger. "Excited
folded the paper he had just received and put it in the pages of love is kind. From that moment, as in "The corners of chance", I began to find the writer at various points in Mexico City: Polanco, Colonia Condesa and the Roma, in the Historic Center in University City. I am deeply embarrassed to approach him and confess my admiration. On occasion, even attended the presentation of one of his books and I dared not ask him to sign my copy. I was sure, to approach him, he would have nothing to say.
Until one day, finally I got the solution: would keep the note in my wallet and the next time you find Borbolla From the street the address on the pretext that he had a message from him. But what if I lost or stolen wallet? I decided to photocopy the message and re-save the original pages of stories. Then it happened: I stopped running into De la Borbolla.
Time passed and I thought of the absurd idea of \u200b\u200bplaying dice with God. I thought to cheat. My idea was putting together a scenario that seems casual. Nobody, not even God himself, they would discover that everything was perfectly planned. I had to run into "randomly" with De la Borbolla and deliver the message I had sent so many years. Was determined: it would be worse for the fact that if he did not find that I imagined would happen. Subscribe to the "Manifesto uchronic" in order to live the life you desire. I did not take into account the uncertainty principle formulated by the German physicist Werner Karl Heisenberg, who asserted that there is always an uncertainty variable.
Before I could even plan a gimmick to get the longed for meeting with writer happen, God cheated. One evening, while writing this text, my phone rang, I answered and the other side of the line heard a male voice saying, "Hi, Oscar de la Borbolla, I learned that you write something about me that you have a message sent for years, and I invite you for coffee to chat about all. " My first thought was that someone was playing a joke, but my partner insisted on being both the writer, who accepted the invitation.
There was still the hardest part because, as a question of the Borbolla:
How are those who are looking for? Those who are not seeking by chance: the fate of matches in a corner or in an elevator together, puts everyone on a path that apparently does not include cross to the other, but fatally proceeds flowing into the site and the instant the point reaching those not looking for: no one can ever explain the delay or unexpected turn which gives us the so-called unexpected encounter. Those who seek, however, have to agree: make an appointment, review your agenda, propose an item for the meeting and do everything conducive to attend on time. Those who seek to replace the random by the will and only when things get found out wonderfully. [13]
My chance encounter, but was ruined prefabricated. I lost the game.
Italo Calvino says that in every story, there are only two possible endings, which confirms that life and explores the meaning of death. The literature confirms Oscar de la Borbolla life as random. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bakhtin, MM, Aesthetics of verbal creation, Mexico, Siglo XXI, 2005.
Baquero Goyanes, Mariano, Structures of the contemporary novel, Madrid, Castalia, 2001.
Baudrillard, Jean, the other for himself, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bAnagram, 1997.
[1] In English, serendipity.
[2] Oxford Dictionary
Inglés [3] Longman Dicitonary of Contemporany Inglés
[4] Oscar de la Borbolla, "The corners of chance," Love is kind, Mexico, Joaquin Mortiz, 1994 .
[5] Jean Baudrillard, the other for himself.
[6] Oscar de la Borbolla, "Manifesto Uchronics" How to destroy reality, pp. 10-11.
[7] Ibid., P. 13
[8] Baudrillard, op. cit.
[9] Oscar de la Borbolla, The Life of a dead man, p. 24
[10] Baudrillard Op.
[11] Bakhtin, M., aesthetics of verbal creation, pp.81-82.
[12] Ibid., P.138.
[13] Oscar de la Borbolla, The Life of a dead man.
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