Umberto Eco afirmó el domingo, en una conferencia dictada en New York durante el festival del Club PEN, que la literatura puede interpelarse como un ejercicio no sólo de escritura sino de reescritura. Explicó que los juegos literarios, casi como si hubiera sido coautor del manifiesto huiqui, nos podrían revelar ciertas inflexiones que los textos originales prefirieron no explorar. ¿Y si Víctor Hugo hubiera declarado ganador a Napoleón en Waterloo? ¿Y si Ana Karenina, en vez de suicidarse, se hubiera fugado con Lolita para trabajar en el distrito rojo de Amsterdam? ¿Y si Clark Kent no fuera Superman?
Después de disfrutar las infinitas posibilidades, Eco retomó el control: las versiones originales pueden ser modificadas por el lector y escritor atrevido, pero la contundencia de la originalidad siempre permanece allí para recordarnos que a pesar de todo, debemos ser fieles a su voluntad. Napoleón perderá siempre, Ana Karenina morirá y Clark Kent indefectiblemente volará por los aires. La literatura, dice Eco, es el terreno más estable de nuestro incierto universo. Podremos dudar de todo, menos de las grandes historias para siempre contadas. Existen con tanta solidez como existe dios.
Y sin embargo: ¿no es verdad que las reescrituras nos permiten la libertad del desafío a dios? ¿No es cierto que dios, a cambio, requiere de la herejía para reafirmar la implacable fuerza de su dogma? Nunca alcanzaremos a los dioses, eso nos quedó claro desde que leímos a Borges por primera vez. Pero podemos asumir la feliz condición de heresiarcas, de pequeñas voces demoníacas que satisfacen su perversa compulsión de falsearlo todo para demostrar que el cánon y la herejía, a fin de cuentas, son codependientes en la cosmología literaria al igual que el cielo y el infierno.
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Antonio is dead
No longer will his snake tongue hiss,
Or smirk, or laugh, politely even,
At you, fakes, makers of the Mexican news
Society protects, hides demons perfectly
Under furs, hedge funds, foreign homes, botox, drugs
Just a few,,,,, ha-ha, not that many you say, but enough
Antonio knew the hidden,
Flaunting sins, to the wind, as if freedom was unleashed
He did not make mockery, he made pen history.
Look into his face,
Examine Antonio’s words
His reportage, interviews, writings.
It was all there, should makes us recoil.
Colosio’s murder, Ruiz Massieu, and more and more,
They disappeared. Where did they go?
Who knew? Of course many did.
So shame shame shame on us/you cowards
My friend Antonio has died.
Antonio is dead
No longer will he sneer at my obvious stupidity,
Your millions deposited abroad, hell, the broad, spread legs
On a millionaire’s boat, with swift breeze
Thanks to the president’s zeal
And you reader shall too……. It’s all there
Look it up
But nothing will bring him back to me, my life
My true friend Antonio
And God how he laughed/
My friend Antonio has died
Antonio is dead
No longer will his snake tongue hiss,
Or smirk, or laugh, politely even,
At you, fakes, makers of the Mexican news
Society protects, hides demons perfectly
Under furs, hedge funds, foreign homes, botox, drugs
Just a few,,,,, ha-ha, not that many you say, but enough
Antonio knew the hidden,
Flaunting sins, to the wind, as if freedom was unleashed
He did not make mockery, he did pen history.
Look into his face,
Examine Antonio’s words
His reportage, interviews, writings.
It was all there, should makes us recoil.
Colosio’s murder, Ruiz Massieu, and more and more,
They disappeared. Where did they go?
Who knew? Of course many did.
So shame shame shame on us/you cowards
My friend Antonio has died.
Antonio is dead
No longer will he sneer at my obvious stupidity,
Your millions deposited abroad, hell, the broad, spread legs
On a millionaire’s boat, with swift breeze
Thanks to the president’s zeal
And you reader shall too……. It’s all there
Look it up
But nothing will bring him back to me, my life
My true friend Antonio
And God how he laughed/
No longer will his snake tongue hiss,
Or smirk, or laugh, politely even,
At you, fakes, makers of the Mexican news
Society protects, hides demons perfectly
Under furs, hedge funds, foreign homes, botox, drugs
Just a few,,,,, ha-ha, not that many you say, but enough
Antonio knew the hidden,
Flaunting sins, to the wind, as if freedom was unleashed
He did not make mockery, he did pen history.
Look into his face,
Examine Antonio’s words
His reportage, interviews, writings.
It was all there, should makes us recoil.
Colosio’s murder, Ruiz Massieu, and more and more,
They disappeared. Where did they go?
Who knew? Of course many did.
So shame shame shame on us/you cowards
My friend Antonio has died.
Antonio is dead
No longer will he sneer at my obvious stupidity,
Your millions deposited abroad, hell, the broad, spread legs
On a millionaire’s boat, with swift breeze
Thanks to the president’s zeal
And you reader shall too……. It’s all there
Look it up
But nothing will bring him back to me, my life
My true friend Antonio
And God how he laughed/
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