article Juan Manuel de Prada ABCD At one point, towards the end of the nineteenth century, when Bohemia was synonymous with art: the young fry writer who came to Madrid, pilgrims from the periphery, arranged to win bites the Puerta del Sol, understood his vocation as a kind of martyrdom fatal. More ammunition arrived without their heroic verse and no other weather trench with four undigested readings of Baudelaire and a convinced anarchist rage would then decanted into mere bitterness or resentment. Bohemian life (if poverty and hunger and weary dawns in filthy taverns deserve the name of life) was an ideal of purity, ragged tangle of muses, whose network died many of those youths. The Seville Alejandro Sawa, who are now celebrating the centenary of his death, was perhaps the most valuable member, and certainly the most distinctive in character and picture-of a different generation of writers who attempted to transfer coats our letters the naturalism climate is harsh, symbolist music and socializing that novel, then, the air in France.
in the sewers. They embodied (s tough to) the figure of the disinherited of the letters rejected by a philistine society did not understand his art, seeking refuge in the sewers of marginality and from there fly the flag of a rebellious literature and solvent.
first arrived in Madrid, young Alejandro Sawa, whom all his contemporaries agree Apollonian portrayed as a man and born for pleasure, begins to bestow his pen in the press and his picture of Byron walk by Chiscón proletarian of the capital. In this first period dates a handful of novels tremebundo tone in denouncing the evils of a time delay stifled by the leniency of the politicians, inhuman abandonment of the working classes and the most obtuse clericalism. Today, all police reports furnished shelves of oblivion, but at the time were highly celebrated in anarchist circles. First of all, the women around the world (1885), we expected their affair from the very title, to continue this legal Crime (1886), Declaration of a loser (1887) and Night (1888), all in immoderate its mixture of socialist romanticism and naturalism atrocious, all peppered a bronco anticlericalism and prone to caricature.
With just twenty-five, Sawa decided to emigrate to Paris, crushed by the English environmental closure, against the attack that never stop to dehorning. In Paris, stunned nights of absinthe and peripatetic, shall contact and Parnassians Symbolists. On his return to Madrid, back in 1896, will become the first promoter of the verses of Verlaine, also the target of teasing about eutrapélicas of their peers. Sawa on legends circulated rather mocking tone in life (Bonafoux acre pen should be the most publicized of them all, which combines devotion to Victor Hugo with the hygiene neglect), and his death on in circumstances of extreme hardship , would become a legend himself, thanks largely to Valle-Inclan, who did lights protagonist of bohemia.
The only ink. Sawa, I was born for pleasure, went straight to the pain, like moths to light go straight to the calcined: perhaps because the pain is the only ink in which he could dip his pen, perhaps because the pain reminded him of when cold gnawed him the entrails, which had an early spring and never met, back in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Harassed by a blindness that forced him to deliver your items to your devoted wife, Jeanne Poirier, the verve of his writing was gradually declining, until he had to settle for win as black lentils of items Rubén Darío published in La Nacion Buenos Aires. Ruben who would be precisely the publication apadrinaría posthumous lights in the dark (1910), a sort of diary in which alternating Sawa clairvoyance bitter loser with that sort of poignant resignation of those who dedicate their lives to an elusive ideal, perhaps unattainable.
Illuminations in the shade, now the editorial Nordic rescues with Andrew Trapiello presentation is a miscellaneous book, where memories and aphorisms, sketches and ramblings aesthetic alternate, stripped of those devices a bit vacuous and apostrophes that characterized meningitis Sawa youth deliveries. A book torn by pain, shaky at times and sometimes rough, where the author's talent rises on the darkness of a ruined life and provides the best call, before dying in the shadows of bohemia.
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