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Salman Rushdie, Sybren Polet, Josef Nesvadba, Osamu Dazai, José Rizal, Friedrich Huch, Gustav Schwab

De Indisch-Britse schrijver en essayist Salman Rushdie werd geboren in Bombay op 19 juni 1947. Zie ook alle tags voor Salman Rushdie op dit blog.

 

Uit: The Satanic Verses

 

“When Baal proceeded to lay out the plan for the madam, she responded: "It is very dangerous, but it could be damn good for business." While I do not wholly subscribe to the theory that authors tend to write self-fulfilling novels, it seems quite clear to me that "they" did hear and that they are indeed mad enough to "boil his balls in butter." The Ayyatollah Khomeni, who issued the fatwa for Rushdie's death, in fact stated that what Rushdie wrote about the Prophet literally made his blood boil (quoted in Appignanesi and Maitland 1990:73). The whole thing has been very dangerous, and there is little doubt but that the controversy has been "damn good for business."

The question that remains for me is why Rushdie -- being brought up as a Muslim, even a backsliding one -- did not realize what the reaction of his fellow Muslims would be (Baal was certainly not naive about how Mahound would respond to knowing whores were pretending to be his wives), or why Rushdie realized it but went ahead and did it anyway. To a certain extent Rushdie's public presentation of his private doubt came at the wrong time -- it was a convenient lightning rod at a time when anger against the West -- understandable anger at that -- needed to go somewhere.

But the key I think is found in the same passage (p. 380), where Rushdie comments: "Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy." In an interview ironically broadcast the same day in 1989 as Khomeini's death warrant, Rushdie added: "Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the 20th century" (quoted in Appignanesi and Maitland 1990:24). Here I think is the crux of the problem. We can readily identify with Rushdie on doubt as the norm in the secular as well as much of the sacred thinking of our West. We can read The Satanic Verses as an exercise in dealing with that doubt, one that Rushdie as an immigrant author in our backyard vigorously defends as viable even though it may be seen as blatant unbelief by his critics. But the problem is that Rushdie, at least up until a recent interview with

David Frost, has never claimed not to have belief. He has simply admitted to doubt.”

 

 

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Salman Rushdie (Bombay, 19 juni 1947)

 

 

 

 

 

De Nederlandse dichter en schrijver Sybren Polet (pseudoniem van Sybe Minnema) werd geboren in Kampen op 19 juni 1924. Zie ook alle tags voor Sybren Polet op dit blog.

 

 

 

Trampolinepoëzie

 

Mensbeeld als wensbeeld van generatieve foetussen.

Beweeglijke gevoelshorizonten en hun zelfadaptaties.

In ons lichaam om de 120 dagen geheel nieuw bloed
waarin nog visvormen zwemmen.

Nog maar 70.000 jaar geleden waren we bijna uitgestorven.

De ramp als natuurlijk experiment.

Net als bij gifslangen niet sterven aan je eigen vergif.

Vreedzaam samenleven met je 100 biljoen bacteriën.

Resistent zijn tegen de realiteit,
realiteit
als een onlokaliseerbare bom, die
nooit ontploffend
altijd en overal zijn werking uitoefent.

 

 

 

 

Diapsalmata

 

Je loopt met de dood als een hond achter je aan.
De hond draagt een bril met drie glazen.
Je kijkt strak voor je uit. Draait je om en blikt
in het derde oog als in een duistere rede.

Je zweet geschiedenis uit. Zweert van leven.
Losse tranen lopen als kleine homunculi* voor je uit.
Met vochtige contactlenzen beschouw je het leven.
Je kunt niet zonder je leven. Dus leef je.

In lichaamsvormige luchtgraven houd je je schuil
tot de volgende holle minuut. Je zweet geschiedenis uit.

Je blikt met een voorhoofdsoog in een duistere rede.
En weer zie je álles
niet, of alleen dat
wat vaag aan de gekartelde einder opdoemt.

Je loopt met de dood als een dode hond achter je aan
en je blaft en je blaft tot je in de lucht op bent gegaan.

 

 

 

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Sybren Polet (Kampen, 19 juni 1924)

 

 

 

 

 

De Tsjechische schrijver Josef Nesvadba werd geboren op 19 juni 1926 in Praag. Zie ook alle tags voor Josef Nesvadba op dit blog.

 

Uit: The Half-wit of Xeenemuende

 

“The old teacher was glad to accept Mrs. Habicht's offer. He earned a bit by coaching, because his pension was too small to allow him to buy anything on the black market, even potatoes. They didn't tell him the boy was a half-wit, though. He didn't find it out until the first day they spent together. Bruno was fifteen, with the face of a six-year-old and some of the habits of a toddler. During his first lesson he made a dive for a fly and swallowed it without turning a hair; he pushed his fountain pen up his nose and poured the ersatz coffee his mother had made for the teacher over the poor man's trousers. The latter of course got up and wanted to leave the house at once. The desperate mother spent a long time persuading him to stay; she raised his salary and offered to give him a warm supper every evening if only he would take her son on. And as if he wanted to ingratiate himself with the teacher all of a sudden, Bruno stood to attention and recited in a loud voice the multiplication table, division table, and square roots.

"He's got a wonderful head for figures," said Mrs. Habicht. "He can remember anything. He knows the Xeenemuende telephone directory off by heart." And Bruno promptly recited the first sixty names and addresses and telephone numbers. But he had no head for grammar, he was hopeless at history, and he couldn't read the simplest sentence. And he was fifteen, if you please.”

 

 

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Josef Nesvadba (19 juni 1926 – 26 april 2005)

 

 

 

 


De Japanse schrijver
Osamu Dazai (eig.Shūji Tsushima) werd geboren op 19 juni 1909 in Tsugaru. Zie ook alle tags voor Osamu Dazai op dit blog.

 

Uit: The setting sun (Vertaald door Donald Keene)

 

“My brother Naoji says that we are no match for Mother, and I have at times felt something akin to despair at the difficulty of imitating her. Once, in the back garden of our house in Nishikata Street — it was a beautiful moonlight evening in the beginning of autumn — Mother and I were sitting in the summer-house by the edge of the pond admiring the moon, when she got up and went into a nearby clump of flowering shrubs. She called to me from among the white blossoms with a little laugh, "Kazuko, guess what Mother is doing now."

"Picking flowers."

She raised her little voice in a laugh. "Wee-wee!"

I felt there was something truly adorable in her which I could not possibly have imitated.

This has been quite a digression from this morning's soup, but I recently learned from a book I was reading how in the days of the French monarchy the court ladies thought nothing of relieving themselves in the palace gardens or in a corner of the corridors.  Such innocence really charms me, and I wondered if Mother might not be one of the last of that kind of lady.

At any rate, this morning she let out a little cry — ah — as she sipped the soup, and I asked if it were a hair, only to be informed that it was not.

"Perhaps it was too salty."

The soup this morning was green pea, from an American can I got on the ration and made into a kind of potage. I haven't any confidence in my abilities as a cook, though it is one of the few confidences a girl should have, and couldn't help worrying about the soup, even after Mother said that nothing was wrong.

"You made it very well," Mother said in a serious tone. After she had finished the soup, she ate some rice-balls wrapped in seaweed.”

 

 

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Osamu Dazai (19 juni 1909 – 13 juni 1948)

 

 

 

 

 

De Filippijnse schrijver José Rizal (eig. José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda) werd geboren op 19 juni 1861. Zie ook alle tags voor José Rizal op dit blog.

 

 

A Tribute to My Town

 

When I remember the days
that saw my early childhood
spent on the green shores
of a murmurous lagoon;
when I remember the coolness,
delicious and refreshing,
that on my face I felt
as I heard Favonius croon;

when I behold the white lily
swell to the wind’s impulsion,
and that tempestuous element
meekly asleep on the sand;
when I inhale the dear
intoxicating essence
the flowers exude when dawn
is smiling on the land;

sadly, sadly I recall
your visage, precious childhood,
which an affectionate mother
made beautiful and bright;
I recall a simple town,
my comfort, joy and cradle,
beside a balmy lake,
the seat of my delight.

Ah, yes, my awkward foot
explored your sombre woodlands,
and on the banks of your rivers
in frolic I took part.
I prayed in your rustic temple,
a child, with a child’s devotion;
and your unsullied breeze
exhilarated my heart.

The Creator I saw in the grandeur
of your age-old forests;
upon your bosom, sorrows
were ever unknown to me;
while at your azure skies
I gazed, neither love nor tenderness
failed me, for in nature
lay my felicity.

Tender childhood, beautiful town,
rich fountain of rejoicing
and of harmonious music
that drove away all pain:
return to this heart of mine,
return my gracious hours,
return as the birds return
when flowers spring again!

But O goodbye! May the Spirit
of Good, a loving gift-giver,
keep watch eternally over
your peace, your joy, your sleep!
For you, my fervent pryers;
for you, my constant desire
to learn; and I pray heaven
your innocence to keep!

 

 

 

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José Rizal (19 juni 1861 - 30 december 1896)

Op 18-jarige leeftijd

 

 

 

 

De Duitse dichter en schrijver Friedrich Huch werd geboren op 19 juni 1873 in Braunschweig. Zie ook alle tags voor Friedrich Huch op dit blog.

 

Uit: Enzo

 

„Ob der Junge ihm wohl selber ähnlich werden würde? Dann konnte er sich nur freuen. – Er verschob etwas den grünen Lichtschirm und trat zum Spiegel. Das war ihm ein gewohnter Gang. Er galt als einer der schönsten Männer in der Stadt und liebte es, sich dieses manchmal vor sich selber zu bestätigen.

Die Stirn war ohne Zweifel fest, stark, schön gebaut, bedeutend; sie paßte gut zu dem eben geformten, großen Mund und zu seiner untersetzten, breiten Gestalt. Auch die Nase gefiel ihm ausnehmend gut: Sie sah geradezu edel aus und bog auch nicht um die kleinste Linie nach links oder nach rechts ab. Dann begegnete er seinen Augen: Groß, schön und sanft . . . Leider etwas zu verschwommen! murmelte er wieder und seufzte leise.

Unwillkürlich sah er zum Flügel hin, auf dem seine letzte Komposition stand. Er war längst in den Reifejahren und sein Name ragte kaum über die Grenzen seines Orts hinaus. Sollte er sich mit den verkannten Genies trösten, oder war es wirklich so, wie er in heimlichen Momenten dachte: daß er zwar ein ganz guter Kapellmeister, aber kein guter Tondichter sei?

Mit halbem Widerwillen trat er zum Flügel, blätterte hie und da in dem beschriebenen Heft, und alle die ihm bis zum Überdruß bekannten, halb wirklich erfundenen, halb ausgedachten Motive starrten ihn so entsetzlich breitspurig und anspruchsvoll an! Er las weiter und immer weiter, stets im Wunsche, abzubrechen, ohne den Zeitpunkt zu finden, denn all dies Zeug hing doch innerlich zusammen, und wenn einmal ein Abschluß kam, so folgte wieder etwas Neues, das dem Vorangegangenen erst die richtige Beleuchtung gab.“

 

 

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Friedrich Huch (19 juni 1873 – 12 mei 1913)

Braunschweig,  Altstadtmarkt

 

 

 

 

 

De Duitse dichter, schrijver en pastor Gustav Schwab werd geboren op 19 juni 1792 in Stuttgart. Zie ook alle tags voor Gustav Schwab op dit blog.

 

 

Das Gewitter

 

Urahne, Großmutter, Mutter und Kind
In dumpfer Stube beisammen sind;
Es spielet das Kind, die Mutter sich schmückt,
Großmutter spinnet, Urahne gebückt
Sitzt hinter dem Ofen im Pfühl –
Wie wehen die Lüfte so schwül!

 

Das Kind spricht: »Morgen ist’s Feiertag!
Wie will ich spielen im grünen Hag,
Wie will ich springen durch Tal und Höhn,
Wie will ich pflücken viel Blumen schön;
Dem Anger, dem bin ich hold!« –
Hört ihr’s, wie der Donner grollt?

 

Die Mutter spricht: »Morgen ist’s Feiertag!
Da halten wir alle fröhlich Gelag‘,
Ich selber, ich rüste mein Feierkleid;
Das Leben, es hat auch Lust nach Leid,
Dann scheint die Sonne wie Gold!« –
Hört ihr’s, wie der Donner grollt?

 

Großmutter spricht: »Morgen ist’s Feiertag!
Großmutter hat keinen Feiertag.
Sie kochet das Mahl, sie spinnet das Kleid,
Das Leben ist Sorg‘ und viel Arbeit;
Wohl dem, der tat, was er sollt‘!«
Hört ihr’s, wie der Donner grollt?

 

Urahne spricht: »Morgen ist’s Feiertag!
Am liebsten morgen ich sterben mag:
Ich kann nicht singen und scherzen mehr,
Ich kann nicht sorgen und schaffen schwer,
Was tu‘ ich noch auf der Welt?« –
Seht ihr, wie der Blitz dort fällt?

 

Sie hören’s nicht, sie sehen’s nicht,
Es flammet die Stube wie lauter Licht:
Urahne, Großmutter, Mutter und Kind
Vom Strahl miteinander getroffen sind,
Vier Leben endet ein Schlag
Und morgen ist’s Feiertag.

 

 

 

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Gustav Schwab (19 juni 1792 – 4 november 1850)

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Richard Powers, Raymond Radiguet, Geoffrey Hill, Bert Schierbeek, Karin Fellner

De Amerikaanse schrijver Richard Powers werd geboren op 18 juni 1957 in Evanston, Illinois. Zie ook alle tags voor Richard Powers op dit blog.

 

Uit: The Echo Maker

 

“They converge on the river at winter’s end as they have for eons, carpeting the wetlands. In this light, something saurian still clings to them: the oldest flying things on earth, one stutter-step away from pterodactyls. As darkness falls for real, it’s a beginner’s world again, the same evening as that day sixty million years ago when this migration began.
Half a million birds—four-fifths of all the sandhill cranes on earth—home in on this river. They trace the Central Flyway, an hourglass laid over the continent. They push up from New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico, hundreds of miles each day, with thousands more ahead before they reach their remembered nests. For a few weeks, this stretch of river shelters the miles-long flock. Then, by the start of spring, they’ll rise and head away, feeling their way up to Sas-katchewan, Alaska, or beyond.
This year’s flight has always been. Something in the birds retraces a route laid down centuries before their parents showed it to them. And each crane recalls the route still to come.
Tonight’s cranes mill again on the braided water. For another hour, their massed calls carry on the emptying air. The birds flap and fidget, edgy with migration. Some tear up frosty twigs and toss them in the air. Their jitters spill over into combat. At last the sandhills settle down into wary, stilt-legged sleep, most standing in the water, a few farther up in the stubbled fields.
A squeal of brakes, the crunch of metal on asphalt, one broken scream and then another rouse the flock. The truck arcs through the air, corkscrewing into the field. A plume shoots through the birds. They lurch off the ground, wings beating. The panicked carpet lifts, circles, and falls again. Calls that seem to come from creatures twice their size carry miles before fading.”

 

 

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Richard Powers (Evanston, 18 juni 1957)

 

 

 

 

 

De Franse schrijver Raymond Radiguet werd geboren op 18 juni 1903 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. Zie ook alle tags voor Raymond Radiguet op dit blog.

 

Uit: The Devil in the Flesh (Vertaald door Christopher Moncrieff)

 

“We would read together by the light of the fire, into which she often threw the letters that her husband sent her every day from the Front. Judging by their frequent expressions of anxiety I guessed that Marthe's letters to him were becoming less and less tender and less and less frequent. It was not without a certain disquiet that I watched those letters burn. For a second the fire became much brighter; the truth was I was afraid to see more clearly.
Marthe would often ask me if it was really true that I had loved her ever since our first meeting, and reproached me for not telling her before she was married. Had I done so, she said, she would never have married Jacques. For although at first she had felt a sort of love for him, it had diminished as the period of their engagement became longer and longer on account of the war. By the time she married Jacques she no longer loved him at all. She had hoped that her feelings would change during the fortnight's leave Jacques had been given

 

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Scene uit de film 'Le diable au corps' met Micheline Presle en Gérard Philipe, 1947

 

 


He was clumsy. The one who loves always annoys the one who does not. And Jacques loved her more than ever. His letters showed that he was unhappy, but that he held his Marthe too highly in his esteem to believe that she would be capable of infidelity. He blamed only himself, begging her to tell him what he had done to offend her; 'I feel so coarse when I am with you. I feel everything I say hurts you.' Marthe replied simply that this was not so and that she had nothing to reproach him with.”

 

 

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Raymond Radiguet (18 juni 1903 – 12 december 1923)

Portret door Jacques-Emile Blanche, 1923

 

 

 

 

 

De Engelse dichter Geoffrey Hill werd geboren op 18 juni 1932 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Zie ook alle tags voor Geoffrey Hill op dit blog.

 

 

An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England

 

the spiritual, Platonic old England …
S. T. COLERIDGE, Anima Poetae


‘Your situation’, said Coningsby, looking up the green and silent valley, ‘is absolutely poetic.’
‘I try sometimes to fancy’, said Mr Millbank, with a rather fierce smile, ‘that I am in the New World.’
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Coningsby


1 QUAINT MAZES

And, after all, it is to them we return.
Their triumph is to rise and be our hosts:
lords of unquiet or of quiet sojourn,
those muddy-hued and midge-tormented ghosts.

On blustery lilac-bush and terrace-urn
bedaubed with bloom Linnaean pentecosts
put their pronged light; the chilly fountains burn.
Religion of the heart, with trysts and quests

and pangs of consolation, its hawk’s hood
twitched off for sweet carnality, again
rejoices in old hymns of servitude,

haunting the sacred well, the hidden shrine.
It is the ravage of the heron wood;
it is the rood blazing upon the green.

 

 

 

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Geoffrey Hill (Bromsgrove, 18 juni 1932)

 

 

 

 

De Nederlandse schrijver en dichter Bert Schierbeek werd geboren op 18 juni 1918 in Glanerbrug in Twente. Zie ook alle tags voor Bert Schierbeek op dit blog.

 

 

maar we zouden niet vergeten dat

 

maar we zouden niet vergeten dat
we hebben gelachen, gelachen hebben
we veel en dat zal ik niet vergeten
want we hebben gelachen en veel hè?
en dat zullen we nooit vergeten om-
dat we zoveel gelachen hebben en dat
niet vergeten gvd wat hebben we gelachen
en niet en nooit vergeten dat we zo
hebben gelachen omdat we samen waren
en zoveel gelachen hebben dat we
het nooit zullen vergeten

 

 

 

Het lied der veranderingen

Kun je me nu zien
(ik droom)
de wind waait
(verdomd hard)
en ik denk
je komt terug
(op zoveel wind)
de luiken klapperen
(je komt terug)
denk ik

kun je me nu zien?
(you know: I am with you now)

ik
ik zag me
ik zag mezelf
(zie je me nu?)
you feel it
over there
I love you

 

 

 

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Bert Schierbeek (18 juni 1918- 9 juni 1996)



 

 

De Duitse dichteres Karin Fellner werd geboren 1970 in München, waar zij nog steeds woont. Zie ook alle tags voor Karin Fellner op dit blog..

 

 

diese kleine frau sitzt im laub

 

diese kleine frau sitzt im laub
ihres denkens und schaukelt

ohne betreff ist sie nur
lindenbollen ein baum
schwammerl außer dienst

sieht mit geschlossenem lid:
mein und dein ist ein schild
aus federn es verbläst

die körnung in der brust
die steinrüstung bestreicht
sie mit luftfäden jetzt

ist nichts mehr: besonders
platane an schnellstraße an
der scheibe verwischte fliege

zerfasert wie distelköpfe
ihr knistern: neuronal

 

 

 

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Karin Fellner (München, 18 juni 1970)

 

 



Zie voor nog meer schrijvers van de 18e juni ook mijn blog van 18 juni 2012 en eveneens mijn blog van 18 juni 2011 deel 2.

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