Good afternoon,
I am currently finalizing a practical work of the Department of Oral and Written Expression that course and I found it interesting to share with you the text I'm working. It is entitled "The experience of reading" and its author is Sebastian Dozo Moreno, writer and professor of Literature and Philosophy.
THE GAZETTE Literary
The experience of reading
Sunday June 18, 2006 / By Sebastian Dozo Moreno. For La Gaceta (Tucumán) - Buenos Aires. Some time in an African tribe, a child approached a loincloth anthropologist and pointed to the book that the man had in his hands. The anthropologist learned that the child did not understand what was he to sit motionless for hours with this "object", so he set out to explain what it meant the act of reading.
first tried to make him understand that a book was not, as rumored in the tribe, a cure for the eyes, and then, with gestures, and single words he learned in the child's tongue, he strove initiate the neophyte into the mysteries of reading. When the anthropologist ended if lesson, the small bared his teeth white, even as a sign of contentment, I took the book from the man of science and I stuck to one ear, sure you hear the voices which contained the magic item.
Few experiences are as strange as reading a book. Seems normal reading of pure knowledge, but in reality it is an unusual experience, as being the contact of two minds without reasonable voice or gesture. In this sense, it is fair to say that reading is to telepathy. In fact, so close is the relationship between thought and the act of reading, the word "intelligence" comes from the Latin "intus legere" which means "read in". But reading is much more than a formidable intellectual event.
"Reading is the pleasure of those who can not travel by train," said Pessoa. So it is to combine in a single experience various pleasures: the feel of lightweight slide, be carried in the air by an alien force, away from reality itself almost without realizing it, and look out the window of the imagination as a landscape elusive remedy the monotony of life. The reading travels, no matter where you are, and the station each new chapter in the face feels the cool breeze of a new beginning, and the "go!" Of a guard ghost train.
But besides being a telepathic experience and a journey is a creative experience. Whoever reads, creates its own story on par with the author. Borges said that's why there are so many "Quixote" as readers were der Cervantes's work, and also why writers should beware of the vanity of architects believed absolute. It is the reader who completes a work, since everything is genuine human event, necessarily, an event co-creator and a meeting point between two sensitivities. (The human experiences acquire their true value at the time of sharing. The philosophy was born in Greece and dialogue, and literature should begin when an person told a story to another, and not from a monologue insane).
That reading is co-creation is in the "where Conan Doyle." When Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, killed in a story to his famous character, hundreds of outraged readers sent letters accusing him of monster and filicidal. As is known, such was the pressure of readers that Doyle had Sherlock Holmes resurrect ten years after having precipitated by a cliff, even knowing that his character would steal the celebrity. Agatha Christie, by contrast, took his precautions in this respect, and killed his detective Hercule Poirot in the story titled "Curtain" to be published posthumously, so that no one might be required to revive the child of his genius. Read
is also assimilate experiences of others to their own advantage: "Read, read, live the life that others dreamed of," said the poet, who is as good as say "dream life that others lived."
and is also a victory over the desert. "We read to know we are not alone," said a thinker. The good reader enjoys the company of the author of a book (and fictional characters, if literary work), but also enjoys himself, because the reader is at peace, and not be shaken to escape from the emptiness. And if Blaise Pascal attributed all the ills of humanity to "not know the man left alone in the room itself, then it is fair to say that all evils are due to the shortage of readers around the world as a reader by definition, is a peaceful person who does know being alone with yourself in your room, or wherever. These include the verses of Francisco de Quevedo: "Retired peace in the deserts / with a few but learned books together / live in conversation with the dead / and listen with the eyes of the dead."
Finally, two more reasons for the act of reading. The first, although Cervantes said at the beginning of his famous novel Don Quixote that his brain dried "with little sleep and much reading, it is noteworthy that the" little sleep "is mentioned first among the causes of the madness of Don Quixote so "much read" might be only an aggravation of the disease and not the cause of their misery.
And the second reason is that reading, besides being a telepathic experience, a journey, a creative seceso, a meeting of two sensibilities, defeat loneliness, an act for world peace and acquisition of sensory experiences, is also a super-experienced, well the kind of experiences narrated by mediums, sufficient for a sensitive reader opens a book and read for the author's spirit will enter through your eyes and take possession of it, slowly and poignantly. So the poet said: "When vibrate all over, me, reader, that you vibro. © THE GAZETTE
Dozo Sebastian Moreno
writer and professor of Literature and Philosophy. Regular contributor to "The Nation", of Buenos Aires.
