Primera Tomato Night del Año Inauguración con Cartas en Distintos Idiomas
.jpg)
A continuación los cuatro textos leídos durante la primera Tomato Night que se llevó a cabo el día 15 de abril en Tomato Studio.
Gennariello, Lettere Luterane
Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Lettres à Nelson Algren
Nelson, mon amour. Je veux vous écrire une lettre d’amour, ce dont je n’abuse pas, non plus que des télégrammes, car je sais que vous ne les aimez pas beaucoup. Mais je n’ai pas oublié quel ange vous avez été l’an dernier quand j’ai désiré aller à Amalfi.
Eh bien j’écris pour me faire plaisir. Je vous aime si fort, il faut que je vous le dise. Pourquoi m’interdirais-je un peu de sotte sentimentalité ?
Oh Nelson, je pleure comme le 10 septembre quand vous avez pris l’avion, est-ce de joie ou de peine, parce que vous vous rapprochez ou parce que vous êtes tellement loin ? Ce soir vous dire la force de mon amour paraît essentiel, comme si je devais mourir au matin. Vous pouvez me comprendre, je le sais, bien que soi-disant vous ne perdiez jamais la tête, que vous gardiez soi-disant tête et cœur froids et ordonnés.
Sottise, bêtise, bien sûr de ma part. Vous avez trop de modestie pour découvrir en vous la moindre justification d’un pareil amour, mais il existe. C’était vérité, pourtant, ça l’est toujours. La conscience involontaire et soudaine de qui vous êtes me submerge le cœur, ce soir, d’une sauvage marée. Ne me répondez pas que Mme Roosevelt sait qui vous êtes, que votre éditeur, que votre agent le savent, personne sauf moi ne le sait. Car je suis le seul lieu sur la terre où vous êtes authentiquement vous-même ; vous l’ignorez vous aussi, chéri, sinon vous tourneriez insensiblement à l’odieux. Moi je sais, et à jamais. Vous êtes doux à aimer, Nelson, laissez-moi, sottement, vous remercier.
Assez d’absurdités. Pleurer de loin est mauvais. S’il vous plaît, Nelson, essayez de sentir, de connaître l’intensité de mon amour. Je souhaite ardemment vous donner quelque chose qui vous rende heureux, qui vous fasse rire. Je vous veux et je veux que vous le sachiez. Pour vous remercier suffisamment il me faudrait être heureuse, aimante, belle, jeune et vivante pendant dix mille ans. Et tout ce que je peux faire, c’est pleurer dans ma lointaine chambre, mes bras resteront froids, eux qui ont tant besoin de vous communiquer leur chaleur. Ca va être si long avant que je m’abolisse dans vos bras. Personne ne vous a aimé, ni ne vous aimera comme je vous aime, sachez- le. Oh dieu, en voilà du propre ! Oubliez tout si ça vous offense, c’est sûrement la plus belle lettre que je vous aie jamais écrite. Mon cœur souffre ce soir, il souffre, je ne dormirai pas. Après tout, rien dans ces lignes n’est insultant, n’est-ce pas ?
Nelson, Nelson.
Votre Simone.
Simone de Beauvoir
Eveline
She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired. James Joyce
Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses. One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other people's children. Then a man from Belfast bought the field and built houses in it--not like their little brown houses but bright brick houses with shining roofs. The children of the avenue used to play together in that field --the Devines, the Waters, the Dunns, little Keogh the cripple, she and her brothers and sisters. Ernest, however, never played: he was too grown up. Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick; but usually little Keogh used to keep nix and call out when he saw her father coming. Still they seemed to have been rather happy then. Her father was not so bad then; and besides, her mother was alive. That was a long time ago; she and her brothers and sisters were all grown up her mother was dead. Tizzie Dunn was dead, too, and the Waters had gone back to England. Everything changes. Now she was going to go away like the others, to leave her home.
Home! She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from. Perhaps she would never see again those familiar objects from which she had never dreamed of being divided. And yet during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yellowing photograph hung on the wall above the broken harmonium beside the coloured print of the promises made to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque. He had been a school friend of her father. Whenever he showed the photograph to a visitor her father used to pass it with a casual word:
"He is in Melbourne now."
She had consented to go away, to leave her home. Was that wise? She tried to weigh each side of the question. In her home anyway she had shelter and food; she had those whom she had known all her life about her. O course she had to work hard, both in the house and at business. What would they say of her in the Stores when they found out that she had run away with a fellow? Say she was a fool, perhaps; and her place would be filled up by advertisement. Miss Gavan would be glad. She had always had an edge on her, especially whenever there were people listening.
"Miss Hill, don't you see these ladies are waiting?"
"Look lively, Miss Hill, please."
She would not cry many tears at leaving the Stores.
But in her new home, in a distant unknown country, it would not be like that. Then she would be married--she, Eveline. People would treat her with respect then. She would not be treated as her mother had been. Even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father's violence. She knew it was that that had given her the palpitations. When they were growing up he had never gone for her like he used to go for Harry and Ernest, because she was a girl but latterly he had begun to threaten her and say what he would do to her only for her dead mother's sake. And no she had nobody to protect her. Ernest was dead and Harry, who was in the church decorating business, was nearly always down somewhere in the country. Besides, the invariable squabble for money on Saturday nights had begun to weary her unspeakably. She always gave her entire wages--seven shillings--and Harry always sent up what he could but the trouble was to get any money from her father. He said she used to squander the money, that she had no head, that he wasn't going to give her his hard-earned money to throw about the streets, and much more, for he was usually fairly bad on Saturday night. In the end he would give her the money and ask her had she any intention of buying Sunday's dinner. Then she had to rush out as quickly as she could and do her marketing, holding her black leather purse tightly in her hand as she elbowed her way through the crowds and returning home late under her load of provisions. She had hard work to keep the house together and to see that the two young children who had been left to hr charge went to school regularly and got their meals regularly. It was hard work--a hard life--but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life.
She was about to explore another life with Frank. Frank was very kind, manly, open-hearted. She was to go away with him by the night-boat to be his wife and to live with him in Buenos Ayres where he had a home waiting for her. How well she remembered the first time she had seen him; he was lodging in a house on the main road where she used to visit. It seemed a few weeks ago. He was standing at the gate, his peaked cap pushed back on his head and his hair tumbled forward over a face of bronze. Then they had come to know each other. He used to meet her outside the Stores every evening and see her home. He took her to see The Bohemian Girl and she felt elated as she sat in an unaccustomed part of the theatre with him. He was awfully fond of music and sang a little. People knew that they were courting and, when he sang about the lass that loves a sailor, she always felt pleasantly confused. He used to call her Poppens out of fun. First of all it had been an excitement for her to have a fellow and then she had begun to like him. He had tales of distant countries. He had started as a deck boy at a pound a month on a ship of the Allan Line going out to Canada. He told her the names of the ships he had been on and the names of the different services. He had sailed through the Straits of Magellan and he told her stories of the terrible Patagonians. He had fallen on his feet in Buenos Ayres, he said, and had come over to the old country just for a holiday. Of course, her father had found out the affair and had forbidden her to have anything to say to him.
"I know these sailor chaps," he said.
One day he had quarrelled with Frank and after that she had to meet her lover secretly.
The evening deepened in the avenue. The white of two letters in her lap grew indistinct. One was to Harry; the other was to her father. Ernest had been her favourite but she liked Harry too. Her father was becoming old lately, she noticed; he would miss her. Sometimes he could be very nice. Not long before, when she had been laid up for a day, he had read her out a ghost story and made toast for her at the fire. Another day, when their mother was alive, they had all gone for a picnic to the Hill of Howth. She remembered her father putting on her mothers bonnet to make the children laugh.
Her time was running out but she continued to sit by the window, leaning her head against the window curtain, inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne. Down far in the avenue she could hear a street organ playing. She knew the air Strange that it should come that very night to remind her of the promise to her mother, her promise to keep the home together as long as she could. She remembered the last night of her mother's illness; she was again in the close dark room at the other side of the hall and outside she heard a melancholy air of Italy. The organ-player had been ordered to go away and given sixpence. She remembered her father strutting back into the sickroom saying:
"Damned Italians! coming over here!"
As she mused the pitiful vision of her mother's life laid its spell on the very quick of her being--that life of commonplace sacrifices closing in final craziness. She trembled as she heard again her mother's voice saying constantly with foolish insistence:
"Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!"
She stood up in a sudden impulse of terror. Escape! She must escape! Frank would save her. He would give her life, perhaps love, too. But she wanted to live. Why should she be unhappy? She had a right to happiness. Frank would take her in his arms, fold her in his arms. He would save her.
She stood among the swaying crowd in the station at the North Wall. He held her hand and she knew that he was speaking to her, saying something about the passage over and over again. The station was full of soldiers with brown baggages. Through the wide doors of the sheds she caught a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes. She answered nothing. She felt her cheek pale and cold and, out of a maze of distress, she prayed to God to direct her, to show her what was her duty. The boat blew a long mournful whistle into the mist. If she went, tomorrow she would be on the sea with Frank, steaming towards Buenos Ayres. Their passage had been booked. Could she still draw back after all he had done for her? Her distress awoke a nausea in her body and she kept moving her lips in silent fervent prayer.
A bell clanged upon her heart. She felt him seize her hand:
"Come!"
All the seas of the world tumbled about her heart. He was drawing her into them: he would drown her. She gripped with both hands at the iron railing.
"Come!"
No! No! No! It was impossible. Her hands clutched the iron in frenzy. Amid the seas she sent a cry of anguish.
"Eveline! Evvy!"
He rushed beyond the barrier and called to her to follow. He was shouted at to go on but he still called to her. She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.
J. W. Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther
Am 16. Junius. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Warum ich dir nicht schreibe? - Fragst du das und bist doch auch der Gelehrten einer. Du solltest raten, daß ich mich wohl befinde, und zwar- Kurz und zut ich habe eine Bekanntschaft gemacht, die mein Herz näher angeht. Ich habe - ich weiß nicht.
Dir in der Ordnung zu erzahlen, wie's zugegangen ist, daß ich eins der liebenswürdigsten Geschopfe habe kennen lernen, wird schwer halten. Ich bin vergnügt und glücklich, und also kein guter Historienschreiber.
Einen Engel! Pfui! das sagt jeder von der Seinigen, nicht wahr? Und doch bin ich nicht imstande, dir zu sagen, wie sie vollkommen ist, warum sie vollkommen ist; genug, sie hat allen meinen Sinn gefangengenommen.
So viel Einfalt bei so viel Verstand, so viel Güte bei so viel Festigkeit, und die Ruhe der Seele bei dem wahren Leben und der Tatigkeit.-
Das ist alles garstiges Gewäsch, was ich da von ihr sage, leidige Abstraktionen, die nicht einen Zug ihres Selbst ausdrücken. Ein anderrnal - nein, nicht ein andermal, jetzt gleich will ich dir's erzáhlen. Tu' ich's jetzt nicht, so geschäh’ es niemals. Denn, unter uns, seit ich angefangen habe zu schreiben war ich schon dreimal im Begriffe, die Feder niederzulgen, mein Pferd satteln zu lassen und hinauszureiten. Und doch schwur ich mir heute früh, nicht hinauszureiten, und gehe doch alle Augenblick' ans Fenster, zu sehen wie hoch die Sonne noch steht.---
Ich hab's nicht überwinden können, ich mußte zu ihr hinaus. Da bin ich wieder, Wilhelm, will mein Butterbrot zu Nacht essen und dir schreiben. Welch eine Wonne das für meine Seele ist, sie in dem Kreise der lieben, muntern Kinder, ihrer acht Geschwister, zu sehen!-
Wenn ich so fortfahre, wirst du am Ende so klug sein wie am Anfange. Höre denn, ich will mich zwingen, ins Detail zu gehen.
Ich schrieb dir neulich wie ich den Amtmann S .. habe kennen lernen und wie er mich gebeten habe, ihn bald in seiner Einsiedelei oder vielmehr seinem kleinen Königreiche zu besuchen. Ich vernachlässigte das, und wäre vielleicht nie hingekommen, hätte mir der Zufall nicht den Schatz entdeekt, der in der stillen Gegend verborgen liegt.
Unsere jungen Leute hatten einen Ball auf dem Lande angestellt, zu dem ich mich denn auch willlig finden ließ. Ich bot einem hiesigen guten, schönen, übrigens unbedeutenden Mädchen die Hand, und es wurde ausgemacht, daß ich eine Kutsche nehmen; mit meiner Tänzerin und ihrer Base nach dem Orte der Lustbarkeit hinausfahren und auf dem Wege Charlotten S .. mitnehmen sollte.
- „Sie werden ein schönes Frauenzimmer kennenlernen.“ sagte meine Gesellschafterin, da wir durch den weiten, ausgehauenen Wald nach dem Jagdhause fuhren. – „Nehmen Sie sich in acht,“ versetzte die Base, daß Sie sich nicht verlieben!“ - "Wieso?“, sagte ich. – „Sie ist schon vergeben,“ antwortete jene, ,,an einen sehr braven Mann, der weggereist ist, seine Sachen in Ordnung zu bringen, weil sein Vater gestorben ist, und sich um eine ansehnliche Versorgung zu bewerben.“ - Die Nachricht war mir ziemlich gleiehgültig.
Die Sonne war noch eine Viertelstunde vom Gebirge, als wir vor dem Hoftore anfuhren. Es war sehr schwül, und die Frauenzimmer äu ßerten ihre Besorgnis wegen eines Gewitters, das sich in wei ßgrauen, dumpfichten Wölkchen rings am Horizonte zusammenzuziehen schien. Ich täuschte ihre Furcht mit anmaßlicher Wetterkuride, ob mir gleich selbst zu ahnen anfing, unsere Lustbarkeit werde einen Stoß leiden.
Ich war ausgestiegen, und eine Magd, die ans Tor kam, bat uns, einen Augenblick zu verziehen, Mamsell Lottchen würde gleich kommen. Ich ging durch den Hof nach dem wohlgebauten Hause, und da ich die vorliegenden Treppen hinaufgestiegen war und in die Tür trat, fiel mir das reizendste Schauspiel in die Augen, das ich je gesehen habe. In dem Vorsaale wimmelten sechs Kinder von elf zu zwei Jahren um ein Mädchen von schöner Gestalt, mittlerer Größe, die ein simples weißes Kleid, mit blaßroten Schleifen an Arm und Brust, anhatte. Sie hielt ein sehwarzes Brot und schnitt ihren Kleinen rings herum jedem sein Stück nach Proportion ihres Alters und Appetits ab, gab's jedem mit solcher Freundlichkeit, und jedes rief so ungekünstelt sein „Danke!“, indem es mit den kleinen Händchen lange in die Höhe gereicht hatte, ehe es noch abgeschnitten war, und 20 nun mit seinem Abendbrote vergnügt entweder wegsprang, oder nach seinem stillern Charakter gelassen davonging nach dem Hoftore zu, um die Fremden und die Kutsche zu sehen, darin ihre Lotte wegfahren sollte. – „Ich bitte um Vergebung,“ sagte sie, "daß ich Sie hereinbemühe und die Frauenzimmer warten lasse. Über dem Anziehen und allerlei Bestellungen fürs Haus in meiner Abwesenheit habe ich vergessen, meinen Kindern ihr Vesperbrot zu geben, und sie wollen von niemanden Brot gesehnitten haben als von mir.“ - Ich machte ihr ein unbedeutendes Kompliment, meine ganze Seele ruhte auf der Gestalt, dem Tone, dem Betragen, und ich hatte eben Zeit, mich von der Überraschung zu erholen, als sie in die Stube lief, ihre Handschuhe und den Fächer zu holen.
