Mario Vargas Llosa: Literatura, Art, and Goya's Ghost
2000; University of California, Los Angeles; Volume: 29; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5070/m3291014537
ISSN0160-2764
Autores Tópico(s)Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity
ResumoThe relatíonship between the \'erbal and the pictorial-that is, between the written word and its \'isual representation, has exercised a particular fascination upon writers and ¿irtists throughout the ages.This nexus has operated both ways: artists have been fascinated by the manner in which writers manipúlate words, syntax and style to fashion new verbal realities (novéis, poems, plays), while writers for their part have succumbed to the allure of artists who utilise paint, ink, acid or crayons to créate new \'isual realities.Examples of this mutual attrac- tion and occasional cross-fertilisation between artists and writers abound.Perhaps no aesthetic movement illustrates the symbiosis be- tween literature and art more consistently and strikingly than fin ãc siède French svmboUsm through its premise that an idea could be expressed through form, the word orobjectrepresented beingnomore thím a sign to open up the pri\'ate world of the imagination.Thus, symbolist poets like Mallarmé, Verlaine and Rimbaud had their coun- terparts in painters like Redon, Moreau, Rops and Ensor-a spiritucd bond between the verbal and the plástic arts that has inspired exhibi- tions in importantmuseums,galleries andlibraries in cities as far apart as Melboume and Madrid.Ŵ ith respect to the Hispímic world, it is well-known that Sah ador Dalí and Federico García Lorca exercised considerable creative intlu- ence upon each other, while Dali also produced a series of one hundred wood engravings illustrating Dante's The Divine Comedi/.The early novéis of the Spanish Nobel Prize winner for literature, Camilo José Cela, were influenced by the power and the passion of Picasso's Guemica (1937), whose tortured images of mayhem in tum echo the scenes of murder cind mutilation in La familia de Pascual Duarte.Another celebrated case is that of Gustaphe Doré (1833-83), a talented French iUustrator, and Miguel de Cervantes.Doré is remembered chiefly for his classic series of lithographs illustrating the dreams and follies of the Knight Errant of La Mancha.In the Hispanic world El ingeiíioso hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha has come out in more editions thcm any book other than the Bible, and no book of illustrations is more revered than El Quijote de Gustavo Doré.Aparticulañy interesting example is that of Littlc Birds, bv Anais Nin, a celebrated erotic
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