De Catalaanse schrijver Juan Marsé werd geboren op 8 januari 1933 in Barcelona. Zie ook mijn blog van 8 januari 2007 en ook mijn blog van 8 januari 2009 en ook mijn blog van 8 januari 2010.
Uit: Last evenings with Teresa
„Mount Carmel is a naked, barren hill located northwest of the city. Their invisible strings managed by the expert hands of children, you will often see brightly-coloured kites in the blue of the sky, shuddering in the wind, hovering above the summit like coats of arms announcing a warrior dream. In those grey postwar years, when empty stomachs and body lice required a dream a day to make reality more bearable, Mount Carmel was the favourite and fabulous field of adventure for the scruffy children from the neighbourhoods of Casa Baró, Guinardó and La Salud. They climbed to the top where the wind whistles to launch crude home-made kites constructed with flour paste, cane, rags and newspaper: for a long time there trembled and flapped fiercely in the city sky photos and news of the German advance on the fronts of Europe, death and destruction reigned, the weekly ration of Spaniards, misery and hunger. Now, in the summer of 1956, Carmel’s kites no longer bear news or photos, nor are they made of newspapers, but rather of fine tissue paper bought in some shop, and their are colours garish, shocking. But despite this improvement in their appearance, many are still home-made, their frames coarse and heavy, and they gain height with difficulty: still the neighborhood’s warrior banner.“
Juan Marsé (Barcelona, 8 januari 1933)
In 1975
Lees verder “Juan Marsé, Waldtraut Lewin, Gaston Miron, Ko Un, Béla Zsolt”