Jesus Aguado, Dictionary of Symbols, Bracket, Sevilla, 2010
Alberto Savinio, New Encyclopedia , Cliff, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2010
Aguado, Jesus (Madrid, 1961): "Poet, translator and anthologist English (...) His work is contained in the following publications: First poems of shipwreck in 1984, My enemy in 1987 , a body Seeds in 1988, The impossible love, winner of Hyperion in 1990, Book of tributes in 1993, The pleasure of metamorphosis (Anthology 1984-1993) in 1996, The Fugitive in 1998, Parts puzzle in 1999, Poems of Vikram Babu in 2000, The fat and Other Poems in 2001, What you say about me in 2002, wounds in 2004 and Cunning vacuum in 2005 "(from Wikipedia).
Circle: "the substantive encyclopedia, born etymology of the claim to exhaust the world's knowledge by circling" Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the next millennium.
Discóbolo : "To my knowledge, nobody has asked why Myron chose between all winners of the games Olympics that year, representing the discus thrower. Given their prestige and political influence (a personal friend of several partners of Pericles and liked him and he distinguished him almost as much as Phidias, his artistic adviser) could have chosen the javelin thrower, sprinter or fighter. Why the discus thrower, who won an athletic form of the type considered second rate? Scholars have looked at Myron's predilection for the movement, novelty into an art which until then had been mostly static works. From this, someone even said that "in the dispute of his time as a permanent and Parmenides and various and transient Heraclitus [Miron] is delivered with enthusiasm next to it. "If I'm right and you will see that this review touches but does not pose the real problem. But before we go a little further. / Of the few reliable data have come from the life of Myron is a very significant and was a member of an academy that included philosophers, surveyors, historians, politicians, artists, etc. Another of those belonging to it, Pelops Heraclitean, wrote a treatise on retaining the title, "The hatred of all circular, and only a few fragments difficult to understand. We know that was dedicated to Myron weeks before the celebration of games that would hit the discus thrower then carve it. / On the other hand, as one scholar says, "the sphere and the circle are the paradigms, diagrams and records basic topological operation of reason in Greece." This is true not only in the metaphysical or theological, but also politically, in the arts (including architecture, music or poetry), the ethical and philosophical and even the military strategy. The circle was the basic form from which everything emanated and to which they had to build all the others. Everything is designed as a circular system, from the gables to the tragedies, short of his ideal of perfection. Democracy is the daughter of this vision: we are all equal as the spokes radiate from the center of a circle. The same cops or temples were traced along a circular plane. Anaximander said that the Cosmos is composed of concentric cartwheels, Parmenides that the world was only circular rings or crowns, Heraclitus used a mode described as circular reasoning (such as "The Everything comes the One, the One and All" , whose structure is ABBA). Plato, and then Myron, devotes several books (including "Time") to show the spherical nature of the most important: the Demiurge, the Universe, Soul ... And Aristotle say in his "Metaphysics" that mimic specific things that are essentially circular itself, which in turn imitates the circular movement of the celestial spheres, which mimic the absolute stillness of Principle or Unmoved Mover. / In view of all this (summary review that does justice to the richness of the subject) can be tested and an answer to the question of why Myron sculpted the discus thrower (and do so perhaps encouraged by the dedication of Pelops Heraclitean). The discus thrower, in our view, is but an allegory. The athletic motif is an excuse to advertise or ask for something more: the pitcher is not really preparing to throw a disc, so you have in his hand is a whole conception of the Cosmos and man's relationship with it, a conception that, for reasons that are lost, it was uncomfortable and, probably, to the Academy to which he belonged. The Discus Thrower is the man who, tense and concentrated to the limit (this is not to beat a brand but to escape from a prison), wants to break the circle into a tree or a wall, break it into pieces advantage is asleep in their fingers and before you back into one of their radios. / The discus thrower is critical to a civilization ... and the longing for another? What could it be? Myron does not think because maybe then the disk as a circle but as a sort of oversized center launch the shift to another place: the Far East, India? Myron If, as is likely to happen given the times in which he lived, would have received news of the Indus culture, is not it possible that he had dreamed of Hellas replace the navel of the world for that place as mysterious and far away ? In that case would remain a critical discus thrower, but also an invitation to travel. And by the way she chose to explain the bronze (which is only mined in the confines "oriental" in the Greek world) for his work instead of white marble was the material almost this kind of official orders "Jesus Aguado, Dictionary of Symbols , pp. 82-84.
Entry: 27. Ling . In a dictionary or encyclopedia, each of the words or terms defined or translated, "Dictionary of the Real Academia de la Lengua.
input or as an art piece : "Make big easy, and typical of inexperienced, make a small box is difficult, and given only to the wise" (A. Savinio, New Encyclopedia, p. 204.
common Tickets: There are only a handful of terms considered together Savinio Aguado and dissimilar in their repertoires: Mother, Don Quixote, Blues, Children, Reality, Parent, People, Roundabout. The obvious differences in treatment that both these concepts are captured in the abysmal gap between the two: Savinio, colder or restrained and encyclopedic, Aguado, no less wise but most polluted of life and emotional energy. The encyclopedia saviniana is the remarkable work of an essayist acute cerebral Aguado dictionary the thesaurus of a poet.
Fair and Carousel: "(...) Just as today we see what one day will know of other (...) felt the precopernicanos the circular motion of the Earth, for us, has become knowledge. Either directly, or indirectly, the circular movement is represented at all times the movement, and movement rather than 'meaning' universal life. Drawing a circle with pencil on paper, or charcoal on the wall, or the tip of the stick in the dust or sand, man has always represented the feeling of something problematic and tied to a mysterious and immense universe. The magic circle is changing tremendously and our condition as we are Redeemer or outside the circle. Children play to run, and in Dante's heaven angelic hierarchies in sublime form carolas. The sense of circular motion has occupied the minds of thinkers Conover even outside the movement itself. Think no means to know, and thoughts that I like are those that are not tied to any knowledge, free thought, selfless thoughts, thoughts' without further order. " And thought 'without further order' was the thought of concentric centers of Elea Parmenides thought, five hundred years before the birth of Jesus Christ. The real founder of the theory of unity explained in his poetry that time we have not kept the birth of the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, "which shines with borrowed light 'common ether, milk heavenly Olympus and the high strength cold stars. He knew that the Earth is spherical and gave to the various regions of the sky called 'crowns', in form of concentric circles that wrap on each other, partly of pure fire and the whole mixture, and of fire mingled with the dark element, ie Earth. (...) Protagoras saw the sign in the circle of perfection, and I am the sign of the prison. And these circles that map worlds and more worlds forever around us, this endless spinning of the universe is not only the form of a vast prison, a merry-go crazy and desperate "Alberto Savinio, New Encyclopedia , pp. 226-230.
words: For Savinio, etymology is the preferred entrance to knowledge: penetrating the words delve into the meaning of the concepts and open the door to the abstraction (the etymological discovery is a light , p. 144; "philology is a huge game of words", p. 276). Their mode of knowledge is vertical. For Aguado, words are metaphorical resonances from each other (reminiscent of Nietzsche), so that all form a score (p. 187), a tapestry extricate where what matters are the nodes: the folds or bridges that open to each other. Their mode of knowledge is, therefore, horizontal .
Remoras: Aguado In the book, the main hindrance is the heterogeneity of materials, which makes it memorable entries mixed with other highly circumstantial, journalistic source. In the book of Savinio, his utter lack of comprehension to understand what Eastern and extreme Eurocentrism, which stretches to the point, at some point (p. 385), to achieve an oxymoron: a European convert the form of the leg .
Savinio, Alberto (Athens, 1891 - Rome, 1952): Andrea Pseudonym de Chirico, a painter, like his brother, Giorgio de Chirico, "writer and musician. Among his works Hermaphrodite (1918), inspired The house (1925), Childhood of Nivasio Dolcemare (1941) and whole life (1945) "(Cliff's Web).
symbols. "(...) The symbols, in addition to being or to be crystals of universal constants or local (the reasons for a particular culture or humanity as such), are also, and who knows, above all, the particular and unique way to grab someone specific to their culture or humanity. From this perspective, symbols are only the images that help a person to a person through other people, landforms, the universal laws, the mysteries of the universe or the events of their everyday existence "Jesus Aguado, Dictionary of Symbols, p. 214. "Born of intimate knowledge (...) are both internal and external, have become so enduring, like all great art images of Greek born knowledge, have become permanent truth "(Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil ).
[Relationship with the authors reviewed, none with Savinio, friendship with Jesus Aguado. Relationship with publishers of the titles reviewed: none]
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