Post by account_disabled on Mar 11, 2024 3:49:53 GMT -5
Among his many songs, Joaquín Sabina titles one: Let's say I'm talking about Madrid . Well yes, let's talk about Madrid, that Madrid from a distant past about which Machado wrote “which was the breakwater of all Spain” ; and that today he would write, instead, “breakwater and center of all contradictions, governed by a foolish woman . ” A Madrid in which, as long as an irresponsible party governs , Sabina predicts: “death travels in white ambulances . ” Well yes, let's say we talk about Madrid. To talk about Madrid is to talk about a city that has witnessed centuries of history, where prestigious writers have coexisted, who have praised the city in their poetry or prose; Lope de Vega and Quevedo have made Madrid the ideal place for their political criticism. Let's talk about Madrid, the seat of conspiracies in the 19th century, where coup generals dedicated their time to changing political regimes.
Madrid, a beacon of modernity at the beginning of the 20th century, of which in one of his greguerías Ramón Gómez de la Serna said : “A stone thrown at Puerta del Sol moves concentric waves throughout the lagoon of Spain . ” Let's talk about that Madrid, Villa and Corte, seen through the Belgium Mobile Number List eyes of hundreds of Spanish and Latin American writers, scene of lights and shadows of a tremendously magnetic city and blessed by novelists, historians, painters, musicians and artists, with that rogue point that disarms and captivates those who know it well. That Madrid by Goya in the Allegory of the town of Madrid , which contains the fervor of an entire people to conquer their freedom; of that Madrid that, following the trail of the brilliant painter, we can recognize his presence throughout the city, beyond his presence in El Prado.
Let's say that we are talking about that Galdosian Madrid, whose union Madrid and Galdós becomes so hypostatic, so intimate and deep that it makes it impossible to distinguish the real Madrid from the Galdosian Madrid; or the traditional Madrid of the chronicler Mesonero Romanos with his Matritense Scenes of him. Let's talk about that ideal Madrid, by Juan Ramón Jiménez, who describes and collects all the spiritual architecture of Spain. Let's talk, yes, about Madrid with Pío Baroja who in his trilogy “The Fight for Life” reflects with masterful plasticity the underworld of an enigmatic and at the same time charming city; or with Valle-Inclán who in his “Luces de bohemia” describes, through his large and diverse group of Madrid residents, a Spain that is a mirror of the grotesque deformation of European civilization; or the Madrid of José Bergamín, architect of the language that, with just a few lines, flooded the page with light.
Madrid, a beacon of modernity at the beginning of the 20th century, of which in one of his greguerías Ramón Gómez de la Serna said : “A stone thrown at Puerta del Sol moves concentric waves throughout the lagoon of Spain . ” Let's talk about that Madrid, Villa and Corte, seen through the Belgium Mobile Number List eyes of hundreds of Spanish and Latin American writers, scene of lights and shadows of a tremendously magnetic city and blessed by novelists, historians, painters, musicians and artists, with that rogue point that disarms and captivates those who know it well. That Madrid by Goya in the Allegory of the town of Madrid , which contains the fervor of an entire people to conquer their freedom; of that Madrid that, following the trail of the brilliant painter, we can recognize his presence throughout the city, beyond his presence in El Prado.
Let's say that we are talking about that Galdosian Madrid, whose union Madrid and Galdós becomes so hypostatic, so intimate and deep that it makes it impossible to distinguish the real Madrid from the Galdosian Madrid; or the traditional Madrid of the chronicler Mesonero Romanos with his Matritense Scenes of him. Let's talk about that ideal Madrid, by Juan Ramón Jiménez, who describes and collects all the spiritual architecture of Spain. Let's talk, yes, about Madrid with Pío Baroja who in his trilogy “The Fight for Life” reflects with masterful plasticity the underworld of an enigmatic and at the same time charming city; or with Valle-Inclán who in his “Luces de bohemia” describes, through his large and diverse group of Madrid residents, a Spain that is a mirror of the grotesque deformation of European civilization; or the Madrid of José Bergamín, architect of the language that, with just a few lines, flooded the page with light.