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October 21, 2015, Filed Under: Authors

Coleccionismo comprometido

Undated photograph of Mailer with wife Beatrice Silverman. Unknown photographer.

Cuando se busca en tiempo atrás los orígenes de las bibliotecas de investigación, damos con una larga historia de académicos dedicados a recabar colecciones de acuerdo a su interés personal, construyendo en torno suyo ateneos de libros que documentaran sus muy particulares metas de investigación. Y muchas veces, cuando dicho… read more 

October 19, 2015, Filed Under: Authors

Los pentimenti de Gabriel García Márquez

One of Gabriel García Márquez's passports. / Pasaporte de Gabriel García Márquez.

Bajo las pinceladas finales de las grandes pinturas, debajo de la superficie, existen en ocasiones marcas de duda, líneas escondidas y colores suprimidos. Estas pinceladas casi invisibles se llaman pentimenti: arrepentimientos, rectificaciones, remordimientos. Me gusta la palabra pentimenti

October 19, 2015, Filed Under: Authors

Gabriel García Márquez’s Pentimenti

Gabriel García Márquez working on "One Hundred Years of Solitude." Photograph by Guillermo Angulo Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center Gabriel García Márquez revisando el texto de "Cien años de soledad". Fotografía por Guillermo Angulo Imagen cortesía del Centro Harry Ransom

Underneath the final brushstrokes of great paintings, below the surface, there are sometimes marks of doubt, hidden lines, and suppressed colors. These nearly invisible brushstrokes are called pentimenti—repentances, compunctions, remorses. I like the word pentimenti because it evokes a sense of drawn-out struggle and internal debate.

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