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"The course of your life in a speech, and Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658) he defines in his note "To the Reader" his novel, "the incomparable Criticón " according to Schopenhauer .
Allegory of the journey of life in four seasons, the first European novel learning this "two pilgrims of life" traveling across Europe in search of Bliss, worldwide appearances, and set out systematically denounced and sent in "The Cave of Nothingness." Gracian sprayed false values, if present, image, ambition, power, gain, into a philosophy with a hammer that breaks without pity idols flashy false pretenses. They oppose education and culture, human gross, make a person consumed, exalts Art, which is "probably the first job of the man in paradise." Rosse, ferocious satire is part of a fantastic vein, and is written with a verve that make fantastic Criticón a masterpiece of linguistic freedom, happiness in word and in the game
( Publisher)
On the complete works of Gracian by Benito Pelegrín published by Seuil:
" is a beautiful edition " (Raphael Enthoven," New Paths of Knowledge ", France-Culture, 26. 04 / 2010)
MUCHAS Gracian
preference. (selected during the summer)
From St. Helena to St. Blaise, "the Criticón" the most baroque epics of the Grand Century English.
DAILY: Thursday, July 10, 2008
Baltasar Gracian The Criticón Presented and translated by Benito Pelegrín, Knopf, 502 pp., 24 euros.
By Robert Maggiori
DAILY: Thursday, July 10, 2008
Baltasar Gracian The Criticón Presented and translated by Benito Pelegrín, Knopf, 502 pp., 24 euros.
What says Criticón on "single defect" that can find a "great book" refers to Criticón himself: "Do not be so quick so we could learn from the heart, or long enough for one would never cease to read. "And indeed, the work of Baltasar Gracian y Morales - the first" Bildungsroman "in Europe - is unfathomable: one does not complete the reading, as if a field reaped endless pleasures, and we stop reading once a quote, a word, a turn-provoking reverie or meditation: "Oh life, you would not have started ! But since you started, you should never end! "" He who dies of hunger does not get any piece of bread and one who is dying of indigestion everywhere invited to dinner, "or" Wine is the milk old. Schopenhauer, whom Gracian has read all the books - and translated the manual Oracle - said "incomparable" and placed him ess of Don Quixote and Gulliver.
"Moorings". Reduced to its frame, the Criticón tells the allegorical and satirical fashion, the adventures of two pilgrims of life, as Fortune has to meet. Returning from the Indies, Critile fails off the island St. Helena and is snatched by the waves Andrénio, "a handsome young man, angel by his pace and still more by its action." Critile is "Criticón", who constantly criticizes, civilized man, the scholar, Reason; Andrénio is Nature, the Instinct, the wild child abandoned at birth, raised by animals, n 'would have never learned the language of men without the miraculous arrival and the conversation of which he wrecked the lives saved. States by "a secret moorings magnet," and Critile Andrénio reach Spain, and then begin a long journey both initiatory journey and pursuit of happiness - embodied by the figure of Félicinde, which we learn that she is the wife (secret) of one and mother (unknown) of the other. The turbulent wanderings through Europe in a metaphorical geography, ends in Rome, where the meeting happens with the stepmother of Life, namely Her Majesty Death. The two heroes manage to escape and land on the island of immortality, having been judged by Merit. At the end they will reach the status of one, the philosophical ideal of man which, crude, wild, gradually perfected through experience, knowledge, culture, art.
Moral of the story? All that established the Supreme Artisan is perfect, everything that man said is flawed. But if the man was born innocent, is corrupted by the world, he can save himself, building a lifestyle and build a harmonious society if given the continuing education he receives the power to spray prejudice, false values and power appearances, to overthrow a world where "virtue is persecuted, the vice applauded silent truth, falsehood trilingual. " Let no one there, however, something "enlightening." The Criticón - whose three parts are published under a pseudonym, between 1651 and 1657 - is a baroque feast, with fireworks, while jokes and games on words, alliteration and whimsical etymologies, a sarabande frenzied, irreverent - which we guess it rained very little to the Society of Jesus, Father Gracian jaw-dropping its load, put it on bread and banished him from the college of Zaragoza.
"Populaciers." It is true that the English Jesuit Criticón portrays the landscape in hell or recalling the surreal paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, and, through fantastic scenarios, and actually go Critile Andrénio the house of ambition at the court of the Pride of the street from the place of Hypocrisy ostentation, and there, like a brother of John Entommeurs, pat herself on anything that moves, false scientists, the real idiots, the arrogant and crafty, the "populaciers", "friends of popularity" - obtained by "shots, wonders and miracles booby-traps for suckers and gagas incongruous" - the "idols of the vulgar," none of the heroes and princes of the vacuum. A game of massacre but gentle, witty, fun - conducted with agudeza, this acuity is the label of the whole work of Baltasar Gracian. Is it reasonable, for example, a mother let her daughter go on a pilgrimage "to St. Blaise without it? Without ...
Comment:
Gibeon M
Bravo for your analysis. Players like Chateaubriand and Balthazar Gracian Schopenhauer regarded as their master. All his work is imbued with knowledge of the human subtilté.Sa, makes it a timeless author. You're right, it is to read without moderation, especially today ... Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 09:50
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"Great Art", read by Valentin Retz
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VIDEO Every Thursday, in partnership with the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, LibéLabo offers a filmed document. This week: Max Pol Fouchet talk about Simone de Beauvoir.
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Gracian
preference. St. Helena to St. Blaise, "the Criticón" the most baroque epics of the Grand Century English. Robert Maggiori
Thursday, July 10, 2008
art press
"The saga of the men patched"
[...] We must be grateful to Benito Pelegrin, Gracian and connoisseur of world-renowned specialist and the littéraure Baroque aesthetics, offering us today a remarkable translation of this Criticón which, via the narration of the adventures of two "pilgrims of life", and Critile Andrénio in search of Felicity, stands with satirical verve unmatched, funniest and most effective argument against the courtiers, the vain, flatterers, ls ambitious, talkative, fools, traitors, rogues, the "slave masters", the "blind guides", the "giants in their body but the soul dwarf"
... [...]
Story fantastic satirical novel, pamphlet pest cons-utopia, treaty-ethical-theological, the Criticón proliferans this work is, at its monsrueuse faco n as the Baroque was the prodigal who to take all his strength, all apmpleur her in our language, waiting for his translator, a translator with a thorough knowledge of English and French, and especially, as he said himself, Practice "blown Gracian" of its processes including language in its inventiveness. Benito Pelegrín is this man of great culture that has a language inveter with this wonderful freedom s'étazit given towards the end of his life, Father Baltasar Gracian to approach closer to the truth of the world, our world as it rotates. "
Jacques Henric (the series)
art press Number 349, p. 82
Allegory of the journey of life in four seasons, the first European novel learning this "two pilgrims of life" traveling across Europe in search of Bliss, worldwide appearances, and set out systematically denounced and sent in "The Cave of Nothingness." Gracian sprayed false values, if present, image, ambition, power, gain, into a philosophy with a hammer that breaks without pity idols flashy false pretenses. They oppose education and culture, human gross, make a person consumed, exalts Art, which is "probably the first job of the man in paradise." Rosse, ferocious satire is part of a fantastic vein, and is written with a verve that make fantastic Criticón a masterpiece of linguistic freedom, happiness in word and in the game
( Publisher)
On the complete works of Gracian by Benito Pelegrín published by Seuil:
" is a beautiful edition " (Raphael Enthoven," New Paths of Knowledge ", France-Culture, 26. 04 / 2010)
MUCHAS Gracian
From St. Helena to St. Blaise, "the Criticón" the most baroque epics of the Grand Century English.
DAILY: Thursday, July 10, 2008
Baltasar Gracian The Criticón Presented and translated by Benito Pelegrín, Knopf, 502 pp., 24 euros.
By Robert Maggiori
DAILY: Thursday, July 10, 2008
Baltasar Gracian The Criticón Presented and translated by Benito Pelegrín, Knopf, 502 pp., 24 euros.
What says Criticón on "single defect" that can find a "great book" refers to Criticón himself: "Do not be so quick so we could learn from the heart, or long enough for one would never cease to read. "And indeed, the work of Baltasar Gracian y Morales - the first" Bildungsroman "in Europe - is unfathomable: one does not complete the reading, as if a field reaped endless pleasures, and we stop reading once a quote, a word, a turn-provoking reverie or meditation: "Oh life, you would not have started ! But since you started, you should never end! "" He who dies of hunger does not get any piece of bread and one who is dying of indigestion everywhere invited to dinner, "or" Wine is the milk old. Schopenhauer, whom Gracian has read all the books - and translated the manual Oracle - said "incomparable" and placed him ess of Don Quixote and Gulliver.
"Moorings". Reduced to its frame, the Criticón tells the allegorical and satirical fashion, the adventures of two pilgrims of life, as Fortune has to meet. Returning from the Indies, Critile fails off the island St. Helena and is snatched by the waves Andrénio, "a handsome young man, angel by his pace and still more by its action." Critile is "Criticón", who constantly criticizes, civilized man, the scholar, Reason; Andrénio is Nature, the Instinct, the wild child abandoned at birth, raised by animals, n 'would have never learned the language of men without the miraculous arrival and the conversation of which he wrecked the lives saved. States by "a secret moorings magnet," and Critile Andrénio reach Spain, and then begin a long journey both initiatory journey and pursuit of happiness - embodied by the figure of Félicinde, which we learn that she is the wife (secret) of one and mother (unknown) of the other. The turbulent wanderings through Europe in a metaphorical geography, ends in Rome, where the meeting happens with the stepmother of Life, namely Her Majesty Death. The two heroes manage to escape and land on the island of immortality, having been judged by Merit. At the end they will reach the status of one, the philosophical ideal of man which, crude, wild, gradually perfected through experience, knowledge, culture, art.
Moral of the story? All that established the Supreme Artisan is perfect, everything that man said is flawed. But if the man was born innocent, is corrupted by the world, he can save himself, building a lifestyle and build a harmonious society if given the continuing education he receives the power to spray prejudice, false values and power appearances, to overthrow a world where "virtue is persecuted, the vice applauded silent truth, falsehood trilingual. " Let no one there, however, something "enlightening." The Criticón - whose three parts are published under a pseudonym, between 1651 and 1657 - is a baroque feast, with fireworks, while jokes and games on words, alliteration and whimsical etymologies, a sarabande frenzied, irreverent - which we guess it rained very little to the Society of Jesus, Father Gracian jaw-dropping its load, put it on bread and banished him from the college of Zaragoza.
"Populaciers." It is true that the English Jesuit Criticón portrays the landscape in hell or recalling the surreal paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, and, through fantastic scenarios, and actually go Critile Andrénio the house of ambition at the court of the Pride of the street from the place of Hypocrisy ostentation, and there, like a brother of John Entommeurs, pat herself on anything that moves, false scientists, the real idiots, the arrogant and crafty, the "populaciers", "friends of popularity" - obtained by "shots, wonders and miracles booby-traps for suckers and gagas incongruous" - the "idols of the vulgar," none of the heroes and princes of the vacuum. A game of massacre but gentle, witty, fun - conducted with agudeza, this acuity is the label of the whole work of Baltasar Gracian. Is it reasonable, for example, a mother let her daughter go on a pilgrimage "to St. Blaise without it? Without ...
Gibeon M
Bravo for your analysis. Players like Chateaubriand and Balthazar Gracian Schopenhauer regarded as their master. All his work is imbued with knowledge of the human subtilté.Sa, makes it a timeless author. You're right, it is to read without moderation, especially today ... Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 09:50
Books
"Great Art", read by Valentin Retz
LIBELABO.FR
Thursday, July 10, 2008
VIDEO Every Thursday, in partnership with the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, LibéLabo offers a filmed document. This week: Max Pol Fouchet talk about Simone de Beauvoir.
LIBELABO.FR
Thursday, July 10, 2008 Muchas
Gracian
preference. St. Helena to St. Blaise, "the Criticón" the most baroque epics of the Grand Century English. Robert Maggiori
Thursday, July 10, 2008
art press
"The saga of the men patched"
[...] We must be grateful to Benito Pelegrin, Gracian and connoisseur of world-renowned specialist and the littéraure Baroque aesthetics, offering us today a remarkable translation of this Criticón which, via the narration of the adventures of two "pilgrims of life", and Critile Andrénio in search of Felicity, stands with satirical verve unmatched, funniest and most effective argument against the courtiers, the vain, flatterers, ls ambitious, talkative, fools, traitors, rogues, the "slave masters", the "blind guides", the "giants in their body but the soul dwarf"
... [...]
Story fantastic satirical novel, pamphlet pest cons-utopia, treaty-ethical-theological, the Criticón proliferans this work is, at its monsrueuse faco n as the Baroque was the prodigal who to take all his strength, all apmpleur her in our language, waiting for his translator, a translator with a thorough knowledge of English and French, and especially, as he said himself, Practice "blown Gracian" of its processes including language in its inventiveness. Benito Pelegrín is this man of great culture that has a language inveter with this wonderful freedom s'étazit given towards the end of his life, Father Baltasar Gracian to approach closer to the truth of the world, our world as it rotates. "
Jacques Henric (the series)
art press Number 349, p. 82
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