offshore Chronicle (It Esquiere, October 1935) was transcribed from its collection
journalistic Special Envoy Editorial Planeta.
Ernest Hemingway and a half will make the submission of a young man at the door of the house in Key West and said he was there begging for a seat in the cars on the road from the highlands of Minnesota with the aim of formulating some questions about literature to this correspondent, who had returned from Cuba that day, had to take the train to visit some friends and write some articles during the time of travel. As flattered and terrified by the form of questions, I tell visitors to come back the next day afternoon. He was a young man of great stature, serious-looking, shaggy hair and large hands and feet.
could see that his only ambition was to devote himself to literature. He had spent his childhood on a farm, then attended secondary education and entered the University of Minnesota. He later worked as a journalist, carpenter, laborer and reaper and went wandering for two months in North America. I wanted to be a writer and had good stories to write, stories told precisely not but which can be seen in a strict order, this could overcome their differences. He had spent a year writing in a cabin he had built in North Dakota. I do not show any of his compositions because, he said, had no literary value.
I figured it would out of modesty, then made me read a story published in a newspaper of Minneapolis, was very poorly written. "At first, I thought almost all poorly written, but this guy is very serious and the seriousness is one of the essential items in the dedication of the literature. The other is talent, unfortunately.
addition to his penchant for literature, the young man wanted to meet the sea. So, and to shorten this story, we offered the use of night watchman on the boat and provide you a place to sleep and work, also had the task of flushing three hours a day, so he had three hours to devote the letters. To satisfy your desire to sail, we promised that we take with us when taken by him travel back to Cuba.
was an excellent night watchman and worked strongly in cleaning the boat and in the literature, however, proved to be a calamity at sea, ea slower than agile, sometimes seemed to have four feet instead of two hands, was nervous when he swells, had an irresistible propensity to churn the stomach and reluctance to follow orders. But he was very willing and hard working if given time for it.
played the violin as we call it the master. His name was Michael. The strong wind and cool slow used both to coordinate their movements, which the writer of this review said, "Master, you will undoubtedly become a good writer, because, apparently, not good for anything else."
Moreover, his style was improving, this indicated that he would become a writer. This correspondent who sometimes has a bad temper, never again admitted to a crewman who aspire to be literary or spend another summer on the coast of Cuba or any other between questions and answers about the practice of literature. If aboard the Pilar have to thrive more aspiring writer, that females are beautiful to serve champagne.
This correspondent understands that the ministry is far more serious writer to write these monthly reviews, but does not like to talk about it with almost all fatal. Having tried on various aspects of this matter with the willful master over one hundred and ten days, most of which had to suppress the rash of herding a bottle to your partner every time he opened his mouth and pronounced word writing, offers a number of questions and answers that followed on the literary art.
If they discourage anyone who wants who wants to write, no doubt discouraged if they can be useful to someone, this correspondent will be pleased by that, and if you annoy the reader, can this ignore them and devote their attention the many images of the magazine.
the offer, the writer of this review argues that much of the information it contains has a value of fifty cents for him when he was twenty.
Teacher: What do you mean by literature?
Storyteller: What is realistic. Realism in a narrative is directly proportional knowledge of life and consciousness of the writer, so that make a work give the appearance of reality to its content. If you know the spirit that moves the feelings of the characters and their actions, save perhaps the luck or the fantasy for some time. More if you continue to write about what you do not know, will only miss the truth and authenticity. After some time it will not be able to write with sincerity.
Teacher: What is imagination?
Chronicler: You do not have any news about it, except you get for free. Perhaps due to the experience of the individual experience acquired, which I think is likely and a quality that every writer must have, the more sincerely believe in the imagination. If you can imagine with enough sincerity, the public will believe that what has happened relates to real life and he does nothing but keep him.
Teacher: How to distinguish?
Storyteller: If you have been told, people do not remember. When she tells one something that just happened timeliness makes listeners perceive with the mind. A month later, the time element disappears, so the story is bland and they do not perceive with the mind or remember. But if it is constructed rather than relate, can you give integrity, strength and life. In this case a work is created, good or bad. And will be more the higher the real skill that has to make and the knowledge to be put on it Do you agree with me?
Teacher: Not really. Chronicler
(hopefully): As well, talk about something else, for Christ!
Maestro (not convinced): tell me more things concerning the mechanism of writing.
Storyteller: Takes! You mean the pencil or typewriter.
Teacher: Chronicler
effect: By getting one to write applies all his energy, but instead the reader gets nothing. You can also use the machine because it makes work easier and more comfortable. Having learned to write, writer should aim to convey the feelings, passions, concepts, and situations to the reader. To achieve this it is necessary to prepare carefully what is written, this is achieved by using the pen to offer three options that the reader understands what the letter gives a reading from beginning to end, and second, the machine will pass it back to correct and by recent corrections are made for the tests. The first writing pen improves a 0,333 by 100 more than if not used for that purpose: facilitating sizeable fluency, clarity and simplicity.
Teacher: How much to write daily?
Chronicler: Can not specify. The best is yet to stop work when it goes well, before difficulties arise. Thus never be delayed while writing a novel. This is the most valuable thing I can tell, so do not forget.
Teacher: Do not forget
Storyteller: I insist on the need to stop work, but the ideas come in abundance in the head and not think about him until the next day when he returns to resume. Thus, the subconscious makes all of the duration of the interruption. For the task consciously think about or worry, they fatigue and neutralizes the brain. Once writing has nothing to be concerned whether he can continue the next day or not. Must be pursued writing without any worries and learn to make a novel, the hardest part is, of course, finish it.
Teacher: What do not to worry?
Storyteller: It is best procedure is to attempt to divert attention elsewhere.
Teacher: How do you read every day before you write ea?
Chronicler: Soil read all the step I am correcting, then continue to write, when you have written a lot and can not be read from the beginning, I read every day two or three chapters each week and give a general reading, so the work has homogeneity. And do not forget to stop work at the time still that has not been faced with difficulties, that maintains the smooth running and prevent the collapse, if not find one that you can not continue writing the next day.
Teacher: Do you do the same when you write stories?
Storyteller: Yes, only sometimes a story can be written in one day
Teacher: Do you know beforehand what will happen when you type?
Storyteller: Almost never. I begin to write and the scenes are happening as I write
Teacher: That's not what is taught in a literature class
Chronicler: I have no idea about it, because I never attended such classes. A literature professor would not need to teach the subject in a school if you could write a play.
Teacher: But you're giving me lessons
Storyteller: I'm crazy. Otherwise we are in a boat and not a school.
Teacher: What books have you read a writer?
Storyteller: It's all about knowing how to read through it.
Master: Can not read anything
Chronicler: I have not said what I read, but what to read. Of course it has to procure a selective reading.
Teacher: What books are best suited for it?
Storyteller: War and Peace and Tolstoy's Anna Karerina: The Flying Dutchman, Frank and Peter always Mildmaty Captain Marryat, Madame Bobari and Sentimental Education, Flaubert's Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann, The Dubliner, The Story of an Artist and Ulysses, Joyce, Thomas Jones and Joseph Andresw of Fieldeing; Red and black, The Charterhouse of Parma of Stendhanl, The Brothers Karamazov and other works of Dostoevsky, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, The Open Boat and The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane, greet and farewell, George Moore, Autobiographies, Yeats, all good works of Maupassant, Kipling and Turgenev; For an Away Long Ago, by WH Hudson and the stories of Henry James, especially Madame de Mauves, Return of greedy, Portrait of a Lady, The American.
Teacher: Do not give me time taking note of all. Is there more?
Storyteller: Three times as much. Enumerate is another day.
Teacher: Do you have a writer who read them all?
Chronicler: You see: Do not write anything that is written if you can not improve it. There are new things to write about if you can not improve what is written above. The only way to cause the effect is to compete with the letters missing. Most writers are not present, his fame has been made by critics, who always need a genius of the season, someone to understand them perfectly and they have easy judgments about his writing, per these geniuses made leave to exist whenever you go away. Every serious writer has to emulate the missing who have left their mark, to know how far they can go.
Teacher: But reading all the writers can take away the spirits of a
Storyteller: In this case, you will be cowed
Teacher: What exercise is essential for a writer?
Storyteller: An unhappy childhood
Teacher: Do you think Thomas Mann is a great writer?
Storyteller: It is and will continue to be so even if I had not written more than Buddenbrooks.
Teacher: How can form a writer?
Storyteller: It must carefully watch everything that happens around him. If you're catching a fish is necessary to look closely at what each one of the bystanders, if you go back when the animal jumps, try to keep in mind what has caused excitement, and, if the winding the line becomes taut rope which violin, breaks, loose splash, remember the sound that has produced and the comments made in this regard. We must find the cause of the emotion and the experimental fact that has caused excitement. Then take note of it without forgetting any details to the reader to live, and cause the same emotion that caused you. That is a basic exercise.
Teacher: According
Storyteller: In this case is able to penetrate new in the minds of others. If I squeal, you must try to imagine what I'm thinking at that time and at the same time as experienced within. If Jack made pests, John reflects on the reasons that induce the other to curse. Things are as they should be or not. Therefore, as you know who is right and who do not, and must make a decision and impose it as a writer and should not censor, but to understand.
Teacher: As
Storyteller: Another thing: When people talk, listen carefully. Do not think about what you will say, because most of them do not listen and reflect. You must be able to accurately in mind all what he has seen in a room after having come out of it, if the stay has caused excitement must know what has been the cause. When it is in the city, move to the theater and watch people stands in the way of alighting from a taxi or private car. There are countless ways to exercise. And plans to continue in others.
Teacher: Do you think I will become a writer?
Storyteller: What do I know! May lack the talent for it or if not be sensitive enough to penetrate the feelings of others. But you have interesting things to say, try to capture them on paper.
Master. How do I refer them?
Storyteller: Write them down. If you work at it five years that have passed which finds that no good can then shot himself the same as now.
Teacher: not worry I'll hit him.
Storyteller: Being so, come to me and I'm going to beat me.
Master: Thank
Storyteller: It will be well received, master What do you think if we were talking about something else?
Teacher: What?
Storyteller: For the past ...
Teacher: Okay, but ...
Chronicler: No weight worth. Let this issue be closed. It's over.
Teacher: Well, tomorrow I will ask some questions
Storyteller: bet you have fun writing after having found out how.
Teacher: What do you mean?
Chronicler: You know what I mean. Jokes, opportunities, joking. Superficial sketch of an old masterpiece.
Teacher: explain it to me ...
Storyteller: Just
Teacher: Okay, but tomorrow ...
Storyteller: Tomorrow is another day.
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