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Rebecca Solnit
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Mi escritora para hoy es una fuerza de la naturaleza. Lúcida, brillante. De ella lo recomiendo TODO. Muchos la conocen por su importante Los hombres me explican cosas, yo la destaco hoy por su Hope in the Dark (Esperanza en la oscuridad). Es Rebecca Solnit (E. Unidos,1961)
Solnit es escritora y activista. Sus textos buscan recuperar nuevos sentidos de comunidad, de repensar y re habitar los espacios (especialmente en Wanderlust o A Field Guide to getting lost) y de mantener la esperanza incluso (o sobre todo) en tiempos oscuros (Hope in the dark).
Allí se leen cosas como:
“To hope is to gamble. It’s to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.”
Y, un poco más adelante: “Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.”
Solnit cita a Alphonso Lingis:
“I think that hope is a kind of birth — it doesn’t come out of what went before, it comes out ‘in spite of’ what went before. Abruptly there’s a break and there’s and upsurge of hope, something turned toward the future.”
Para Solnit, lo que esperamos tiene que ver con expectativas, con esperanza y, sobre todo, con la forma en que contamos nuestras historias. Hay que buscar nuevas y mejores formas de contar. Y eso es lo que hace ella en cada uno de sus libros, sus ensayos, sus charlas.
Hay que atreverse a imaginar distinto. O, como dice Solnit: “People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.”
Otro de mis libros favoritos de Solnit es The Faraway Nearby (que, entiendo, todavía no está traducido al español). En él Solnit habla sobre la importancia de la literatura, de contar historias, en nuestros tiempos.
Dejo algunas citas de ese libro y me retiro de aquí: “Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions...”
Sobre los libros (“Books are solitudes in which we meet”) y su importancia:
“Like many others who turned into writers, I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods. What surprised and stills surprises me is that there was another side of the forest of stories and the solitude, that I came out that other side and met people there. “
“The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader (...)A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.”
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