By Lida Prypchan On Sunday, April 18th, El Nacional published an interview with the Venezuelan writer born in Valera, Antonieta Madrid. … When speaking of her voice, the interviewer says: “It is an outrage of tenderness.” But I think that her voice and most importantly her words “are more outrageous than tender.” … One of …
July 2013 archive
The Limits of Patience
By Lida Prypchan Maria’s biggest disappointment was seeing the jewelry leave homethat her husband made on commission for those who could afford it. Setting precious stones was the profession of a sickly man named Kassim. He had a beautiful and passionate wife, who was also young and painstakingly from the streets. Her name was Maria, …
The Man, Always the Man
By Lida Prypchan A man’s lunch cannot be compared to a pigeon’s lunch. Pigeons are part of a nature that is dedicated to idleness. Gaze through the window and you’ll see how the pigeons fly without worry. While man has to work to eat and is responsible for guarding a house, pigeons play all the …
The Father of Dead Tongues 2300: What a Prodigy of a World!
By Lida Prypchan The year is 2300. “What a prodigy of a world!” my great-great-grandfather would exclaim with enthusiasm and astonishment. At present, the human being is devoted entirely, body and soul, to culture and science, to research and creation. Furthermore, modern man lacks what I call “sterile passions:” envy, rancor, hatred and many other …
Does This Melancholy Have No Cure?
By Lida Prypchan Introductory Note: What is a literary critique for you? Is it, perhaps, an objective opinion with established foundations? Or is it, instead, an opinion stained with subjectivity? For me it is the latter: a personal opinion and, therefore, subjective. Content: Guillermo Loreto Mata is a Venezuelan writer who one day asked himself: …
Dostoyevsky and Psychoanalysis
By Lida Prypchan Disciplines outside the scope of medicine, such as literature and art, have powerfully drawn the attention of psychoanalysis. Artistic creation reflects the artist’s inner world and his unconscious. So psychoanalysis analyzes the work of an artist, applying the same criteria used to decipher the dreams of a patient. The artist is, in …
Quality Movies For a Lowly Public
By Lida Prypchan For several months, movies shown in Valencia have been of very low quality. Very few movies have arrived from well-known and good directors, and these last up to three days in the movie theaters, because twenty people go to see them, ten of whom go away believing that they went to the …
Revenge, Anglo-Saxon Style
By Lida Prypchan The Circular Tomb Though difficult to believe, science advances, but nobody dares to delve deeper into the human beast. “Listen up,” said the man in the gray suit, frowning: “Civilization?” Freud laughed at everyone who denied the existence of the beast that man carries inside. I make reference to this because I …