Things to do with Mirande
At the same time, about eight years ago, we tried to resolve a pointless debate: Martin Ugalde, Gabriel Aresti, was the first Basque writer to speak as a modern literary genre. Rather than trying to solve it, we raised it, since it is not too important to know who was the first, but to know that at that time, more than one writer tried to give similar answers to similar concerns. But that absurd competition lacked a third name: Jon Mirande. That is what the Gauaz parkbatean collection suggests.
Under the subtitle “Terrible Stories, and in the edition of Patri Urkizu, “scattered stories, in the magazines Herria, Euzko Gogoa, Gernika and Egan” are collected, divided into two sections: translated and invented, “even if they have some relationship”. For us the most interesting are the ones invented here – although, as Eduardo Gil himself said, “he was an excellent translator” – published between 1951 and 1963. They use two leit-motiv, according to Urkizu: “One in almost all accounts: Terror. Other in translation to Irlande: The homeland.” For Gil Bera, on the other hand, “dying and killing” are the stories that all deal with – “except one that deals with nostalgia”. For example, a story called The Dream in which a man kills his wife: “Why didn’t I want to understand that he was not acting for evil, but for love?” he reads. And more nasty stuff. “The writer fantasizes his own pain,” the preamble says.
Because in the background there is always a debate, what to do with Mirande. The concern is not today, if someone can do good literature and, in turn, has been “anti-democratic and racist”, among others. An old and thorny issue that forces us to talk about the relationships between art and morality, the work and the individual who created it. However, the great writer Mirande is undoubtedly the author of an unforgettable novel, one of the most important Basque writers of the twentieth century. With the words of Joxe Azurmendi: “Their poems and stories bring us the coldness of Europe’s new winds to the Basque literature that was so funny.” In this way, it seems to me that we should continue to do the gist of his work. And especially reading, preferably firsthand.
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