Basically,I am convinced that not only are there no “major” or “minor” writers, but writers themselves do not exist — or at least they do not count for much. అంటారు నోబుల్ గ్రహీత ఇటాలో కాల్వినో..అదే విధంగా ఒక రచన అక్షర రూపం దాల్చాక ఆ రచనకూ,రచయితకూ మధ్య ఉన్న సంబంధం పూర్తిగా తెగిపోతుంది అంటారు రోలాండ్ బార్త్..ఈ ప్రతిపాదనలను తన రచనావ్యాసంగానికి తు.చ తప్పకుండా అన్వయించుకున్నారు ఇటలీకి చెందిన నియోపోలిటన్ రచయిత్రి ఎలెనా ఫెరాంటే..సమకాలీన రచయిత్రులలో ప్రముఖురాలైనప్పటికీ ఆమె ఈనాటికీ తన ఐడెంటిటీ ని గోప్యంగానే ఉంచారు..ఇక్కడ తొలిసారిగా ఒక రచయిత్రి ఫోటో బదులు ఆమె అనేక రచనల్ని అనువదించిన ఆన్ గోల్డ్స్టయిన్ ఫోటో జత చేయాల్సి వచ్చింది.
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While I bore—as soon as his startled gaze touched me I was certain of it—all the signs of suffering, he could not hide those of well-being, perhaps of happiness.
Women without love lose the light in their eyes, women without love die while they are still alive.
When my eyes dried and the last sobs died in my breast, I realized that Mario had become again the good man he had perhaps always been, I no longer loved him.
జీవితంలో ఎంతో జాగ్రత్తగా చేసుకునే ఏ ఛాయిస్ అయినప్పటికీ అందులో మంచి-చెడూ రెండూ ఉంటాయి..ఎవర్నైనా గుడ్డిగా ప్రేమించడం తప్పనీ,ఎమోషనల్ అటాచ్మెంట్ ఉండకూడదనీ,దాని వల్ల బాధపడకుండా బయటపడగలమనీ నేటి మేనేజ్మెంట్ గురువులు ఘోషిస్తున్నారు..నిజమే బాధపడకుండా బయటపడగలమేమో ,అలాగే ఎక్కడ హర్ట్ అవుతామో అని నిరంతరం భయపడుతూ జీవితాన్ని సంపూర్ణంగా జీవించకుండా మిగిలిపోనూగలం..భవిష్యత్తుని స్పష్టంగా ఊహించడం కష్టం..కానీ ఆ అనిశ్చితిలోనే అంతర్లీనమైన జీవన మాధుర్యం ఉంటుంది..ఎదురయ్యే ఎత్తుపల్లాలను ఎదుర్కునే ధైర్యాన్నికూడా ఇలాంటి సంఘర్షణలనుండే నేర్చుకుని మనిషి ఒక పరిపూర్ణమైన వ్యక్తిగా మారతాడు..పడిపోవడం తప్పు కాదు..పడిన చోటే ఉండిపోయి లేవకపోవడమే తప్పు అన్నారెవరో.
So I had learned to speak little and in a thoughtful manner, never to hurry, not to run even for a bus, but rather to draw out as long as possible the time for reaction, filling it with puzzled looks, uncertain smiles.
I saw the cover again in every detail. My French teacher had assigned it when I had told her too impetuously, with ingenuous passion, that I wanted to be a writer. It was 1978, more than twenty years earlier. “Read this,” she had said to me, and diligently I had read it. But when I gave her back the volume, I made an arrogant statement: these women are stupid. Cultured women, in comfortable circumstances, they broke like knickknacks in the hands of their straying men. They seemed to me sentimental fools: I wanted to be different, I wanted to write stories about women with resources, women of invincible words, not a manual for the abandoned wife with her lost love at the top of her thoughts. I was young, I had pretensions.
I didn’t like the impenetrable page, like a lowered blind. I liked light, air between the slats. I wanted to write stories full of breezes, of filtered rays where dust motes danced. And then I loved the writers who made you look through every line, to gaze downward and feel the vertigo of the depths, the blackness of inferno. I said it breathlessly, all in one gulp, which was something I never did, and my teacher smiled ironically, a little bitterly. She, too, must have lost someone, something.
All the fault of spies, I thought, false friends, people who always side with those who enjoy themselves, happy and free, never with the unhappy. I knew it very well. They preferred new, lighthearted couples, who are out and about long into the night, the satisfied faces of those who do nothing but fuck.
I had disappeared into his minutes, into his hours, so that he could concentrate. I had taken care of the house, I had taken care of the meals, I had taken care of the children, I had taken care of all the boring details of everyday life, while he stubbornly climbed the ladder up from our unprivileged beginnings. And now, now he had left me, carrying off, abruptly, all that time, all that energy, all that effort I had given him, to enjoy its fruits with someone else, a stranger who had not lifted a finger to bear him and rear him and make him become what he had become.
Habitual acts, they are performed in the head even when you don’t perform them. Or you perform them in reality,even when the head out of habit has stopped taking account of them.
But I immediately removed that idea of solicitude attributed to a man from whom I solicited nothing anymore. I was an obsolete wife, a cast-off body, my illness is only female life that has outlived its usefulness.
In the evening after that encounter, before going to sleep, I felt that his smell still emanated from the closets, was exhaled by the drawer of his night table, the walls, the shoe rack. In the past months that olfactory signal had provoked nostalgia, desire, rage. Now I associated it with Otto’s death and it no longer moved me. I discovered that it had become like the memory of the odor of an old man who, on a bus, has rubbed off on us the desires of his dying flesh. This fact annoyed me, depressed me.
What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn’t die, it doesn’t want to die.
I took a pair of scissors and, for a whole long silent evening, cut out eyes, ears, legs, noses, hands of mine, of the children, of Mario. I pasted them onto a piece of drawing paper. The result was a single body of monstrous futurist indecipherability, which I immediately threw in the garbage.
Kept the page open to read and could finish it today. Bhale books pick chesukuntave nuvvu...Ela telustaru neeku ee writers andaru...��
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