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| ====== Vision of the Children of Evil by Miguel Ángel Bustos ====== | ====== Vision of the Children of Evil by Miguel Ángel Bustos ====== |
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| In her article [[https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2019/11/translating-unspeakable-fragments-vision-de-los-hijos-del-mal-miguel-angel-bustos/|"Translating the unspeakable: On the fragments of Visión de los hijos del mal by Miguel Ángel Bustos"]], translator Lucina Schell discusses the fragmentary structure of Bustos' poems and explains her translation choices and strategies: | In her article [[https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2019/11/translating-unspeakable-fragments-vision-de-los-hijos-del-mal-miguel-angel-bustos/|"Translating the unspeakable: On the fragments of Visión de los hijos del mal by Miguel Ángel Bustos"]], translator Lucina Schell discusses the fragmentary structure of Bustos' poems and explains her translation choices and strategies: |
| "To rewrite Bustos with literal fidelity in English would be plagiarism—and like plagiarism, it would lack the force of the original. To succeed my attempt must be incomplete, the tension between my English and the Spanish creating sparks just like the tension contained in the nucleus of the fragment itself." | "To rewrite Bustos with literal fidelity in English would be plagiarism—and like plagiarism, it would lack the force of the original. To succeed my attempt must be incomplete, the tension between my English and the Spanish creating sparks just like the tension contained in the nucleus of the fragment itself"((Schell, Lucina. "Translating the unspeakable: On the fragments of Visión de los hijos del mal by Miguel Ángel Bustos." //Latin American Literature Today//, issue 12, https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2019/11/translating-unspeakable-fragments-vision-de-los-hijos-del-mal-miguel-angel-bustos/)) |
| Using Donald Revell's analysis of poetic fragments, she describes her grammatical choices for translating Bustos' fragments into English in terms of clause structure, punctuation marks, word preferences, transformations, and omissions to better illustrate the irony and juxtaposition of the fragments. | Using Donald Revell's analysis of poetic fragments, she describes her grammatical choices for translating Bustos' fragments into English in terms of clause structure, punctuation marks, word preferences, transformations, and omissions to better illustrate the irony and juxtaposition of the fragments. |
| ====== Biography of Miguel Ángel Bustos ====== | |
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| Bustos is what is known as a [[https://www.britannica.com/art/poete-maudit| poète maudit]] (Sequeira). He was also a Surrealist who combined his art with his poetry (Desimone). His visual art reflected the dark themes expressed in his poetry (Desimone). | ===== Biography of Miguel Ángel Bustos ===== |
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| Miguel Ángel Bustos was born of Spanish and German immigrant descent on August 31, 1932 in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Desimone; Wikipedia). He was also considered white Creole (Desimone). Bustos studied at the University of Buenos Aires (Wikipedia). Bustos would then travel through Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru from 1960 to 1963 (Wikipedia). | Bustos is what is known as a [[https://www.britannica.com/art/poete-maudit| poète maudit]].((Sequeira, Jessica. "Light Detained by Bones: Miguel Ángel Bustos’s “Vision of the Children of Evil,” translated from Spanish by Lucina Schell." //Reading in Translation//, 29 Apr. 2019, https://readingintranslation.com/2019/04/29/light-detained-by-bones-miguel-angel-bustoss-vision-of-the-children-of-evil-translated-from-spanish-by-lucina-schell/.)) He was also a Surrealist who combined his art with his poetry.((Desimone, Arturo. "Was Miguel-Ángel Bustos the Argentinean poet who prophesied his own death? //Medium//, 2 April 2018, https://medium.com/anomalyblog/was-miguel-%C3%A1ngel-bustos-the-argentinean-poet-who-prophesied-his-own-death-59a6c6435048)) His visual art reflected the dark themes expressed in his poetry.((Desimone, Arturo. "Was Miguel-Ángel Bustos the Argentinean poet who prophesied his own death? //Medium//, 2 April 2018, https://medium.com/anomalyblog/was-miguel-%C3%A1ngel-bustos-the-argentinean-poet-who-prophesied-his-own-death-59a6c6435048)) |
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| | Miguel Ángel Bustos was born of Spanish and German immigrant descent on August 31, 1932 in Buenos Aires, Argentina((Desimone, Arturo. "Was Miguel-Ángel Bustos the Argentinean poet who prophesied his own death? //Medium//, 2 April 2018, https://medium.com/anomalyblog/was-miguel-%C3%A1ngel-bustos-the-argentinean-poet-who-prophesied-his-own-death-59a6c6435048)) (Wikipedia). He was also considered white Creole.((Desimone, Arturo. "Was Miguel-Ángel Bustos the Argentinean poet who prophesied his own death? //Medium//, 2 April 2018, https://medium.com/anomalyblog/was-miguel-%C3%A1ngel-bustos-the-argentinean-poet-who-prophesied-his-own-death-59a6c6435048)) Bustos studied at the University of Buenos Aires (Wikipedia). Bustos would then travel through Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru from 1960 to 1963 (Wikipedia). |
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| Miguel Ángel Bustos's poetry was inspired by his travels through 1960 and 1963 and his acquaintance with Jacobo Fijman(Wikipedia). He attracted the attention of the Argentinean military regime through his outspoken political views and journalism at //Nuevo Hombre// (Desimone). //Neuvo Hombre// openly spoke out against the regime at the time (Desimone). Bustos was involved with the Communist Youth Federation and sympathized for China and the Cuban Revolution (Wikipedia). | |
| | Miguel Ángel Bustos's poetry was inspired by his travels through 1960 and 1963 and his acquaintance with Jacobo Fijman (Wikipedia). He attracted the attention of the Argentinean military regime through his outspoken political views and journalism at //Nuevo Hombre//.((Desimone, Arturo. "Was Miguel-Ángel Bustos the Argentinean poet who prophesied his own death? //Medium//, 2 April 2018, https://medium.com/anomalyblog/was-miguel-%C3%A1ngel-bustos-the-argentinean-poet-who-prophesied-his-own-death-59a6c6435048)) //Neuvo Hombre// openly spoke out against the regime at the time.((Desimone, Arturo. "Was Miguel-Ángel Bustos the Argentinean poet who prophesied his own death? //Medium//, 2 April 2018, https://medium.com/anomalyblog/was-miguel-%C3%A1ngel-bustos-the-argentinean-poet-who-prophesied-his-own-death-59a6c6435048)) Bustos was involved with the Communist Youth Federation and sympathized for China and the Cuban Revolution (Wikipedia). |
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| ===== Vision of the Children of Evil ===== | ===== Vision of the Children of Evil ===== |
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| **About Vision of the Children of Evil** | __About Vision of the Children of Evil__ |
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| //Vision of the Children of Evil//, a bilingual edition translated by Lucina Schell, is a compilation of "Fantastical Fragments" (1965) and "Vision of the Children of Evil"(1967) (Sequeira). | //Vision of the Children of Evil//, a bilingual edition translated by Lucina Schell, is a compilation of "Fantastical Fragments" (1965) and "Vision of the Children of Evil"(1967).((Sequeira, Jessica. "Light Detained by Bones: Miguel Ángel Bustos’s “Vision of the Children of Evil,” translated from Spanish by Lucina Schell." //Reading in Translation//, 29 Apr. 2019, https://readingintranslation.com/2019/04/29/light-detained-by-bones-miguel-angel-bustoss-vision-of-the-children-of-evil-translated-from-spanish-by-lucina-schell/.)) |
| The latter has a fragmentary structure and is divided into 8 parts ("Hospice of Sacré Coeur", "Verbal Islands", "Fragments", "Mount Calvary", "Christmas in the hells", "Childhood Hallucinations", "Vision of the Children of Evil", and "In Gloriam"), each one preceded by an epigraph and the whole book by one that introduces the idea of vision as illumination and light (//luz//): | The latter has a fragmentary structure and is divided into 8 parts ("Hospice of Sacré Coeur", "Verbal Islands", "Fragments", "Mount Calvary", "Christmas in the hells", "Childhood Hallucinations", "Vision of the Children of Evil", and "In Gloriam"), each one preceded by an epigraph and the whole book by one that introduces the idea of vision as illumination and light (//luz//): |
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| **Definition of Omphalos** | __Definition of Omphalos__ |
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| * “The centre, heart, or hub of a place, organization, sphere of activity, etc.” ((OED, "Omphalos," https://www.oed.com/dictionary/omphalos_n?tl=true)) | * “The centre, heart, or hub of a place, organization, sphere of activity, etc.” ((OED, "Omphalos," https://www.oed.com/dictionary/omphalos_n?tl=true)) |
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| **Form** | __Form__ |
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| Bustos uses [[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/prose-poem|prose poetry]] along with nightmarish elements for the book's poems (Sequiera). | Bustos uses [[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/education/glossary/prose-poem|prose poetry]] along with nightmarish elements for the book's poems.((Sequeira, Jessica. "Light Detained by Bones: Miguel Ángel Bustos’s “Vision of the Children of Evil,” translated from Spanish by Lucina Schell." //Reading in Translation//, 29 Apr. 2019, https://readingintranslation.com/2019/04/29/light-detained-by-bones-miguel-angel-bustoss-vision-of-the-children-of-evil-translated-from-spanish-by-lucina-schell/.)) |
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| **Themes** | __Themes__ |
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| Death: Bustos's poetry reveals a fear of going into a divine light into nothingness (Sequeira). Bustos's poetry reflects [[https://www.worldhistory.org/Gnosticism/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw782_BhDjARIsABTv_JC4r8WxkhCw2Gwnf03BNdeGDM3wjTNpt4o4SnTnCgNuaOh1-3IYQpoaAjHiEALw_wcB|gnostic]] views of death (Sequiera). Bustos sees this as the death of self (Sequeira). Writers, such as Arturo Desimone, believed that his poems prophesied his death (Desimone). While Bustos's perceptions of death are shaped by myticism, they could have also been influenced by his suicide attempt and an extended stay at a neuropsychiatric hospital (Wikipedia). | * Death - Bustos's poetry reveals a fear of going into a divine light into nothingness (Sequeira). Bustos's poetry reflects [[https://www.worldhistory.org/Gnosticism/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw782_BhDjARIsABTv_JC4r8WxkhCw2Gwnf03BNdeGDM3wjTNpt4o4SnTnCgNuaOh1-3IYQpoaAjHiEALw_wcB|gnostic]] views of death.((Sequeira, Jessica. "Light Detained by Bones: Miguel Ángel Bustos’s “Vision of the Children of Evil,” translated from Spanish by Lucina Schell." //Reading in Translation//, 29 Apr. 2019, https://readingintranslation.com/2019/04/29/light-detained-by-bones-miguel-angel-bustoss-vision-of-the-children-of-evil-translated-from-spanish-by-lucina-schell/.)) Bustos sees this as the death of self.((Sequeira, Jessica. "Light Detained by Bones: Miguel Ángel Bustos’s “Vision of the Children of Evil,” translated from Spanish by Lucina Schell." //Reading in Translation//, 29 Apr. 2019, https://readingintranslation.com/2019/04/29/light-detained-by-bones-miguel-angel-bustoss-vision-of-the-children-of-evil-translated-from-spanish-by-lucina-schell/.)) Writers, such as Arturo Desimone, believed that his poems prophesied his death.((Desimone, Arturo. "Was Miguel-Ángel Bustos the Argentinean poet who prophesied his own death? //Medium//, 2 April 2018, https://medium.com/anomalyblog/was-miguel-%C3%A1ngel-bustos-the-argentinean-poet-who-prophesied-his-own-death-59a6c6435048)) While Bustos's perceptions of death are shaped by myticism, they could have also been influenced by his suicide attempt and an extended stay at a neuropsychiatric hospital (Wikipedia). |
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| Darkness/Evil: Bustos sees himself as a child of evil and his poems his visions (Sequeira). | * Darkness/Evil - Bustos sees himself as a child of evil and his poems his visions.((Sequeira, Jessica. "Light Detained by Bones: Miguel Ángel Bustos’s “Vision of the Children of Evil,” translated from Spanish by Lucina Schell." //Reading in Translation//, 29 Apr. 2019, https://readingintranslation.com/2019/04/29/light-detained-by-bones-miguel-angel-bustoss-vision-of-the-children-of-evil-translated-from-spanish-by-lucina-schell/.)) |
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| Mysticism: | * Political - Some critics read Bustos's work as political considering his death from political circumstances.((Sequeira, Jessica. "Light Detained by Bones: Miguel Ángel Bustos’s “Vision of the Children of Evil,” translated from Spanish by Lucina Schell." //Reading in Translation//, 29 Apr. 2019, https://readingintranslation.com/2019/04/29/light-detained-by-bones-miguel-angel-bustoss-vision-of-the-children-of-evil-translated-from-spanish-by-lucina-schell/.)) |
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| Political: Some critics read Bustos's work as political considering his death from political circumstances (Sequeira). | ===== Works Cited ===== |
| ==== Works Cited ==== | |
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| Desimone, Arturo. "Was Miguel-Ángel Bustos the Argentinean poet who prophesied his own death? Medium, 2 April 2018, https://medium.com/anomalyblog/was-miguel-%C3%A1ngel-bustos-the-argentinean-poet-who-prophesied-his-own-death-59a6c6435048. | Desimone, Arturo. "Was Miguel-Ángel Bustos the Argentinean poet who prophesied his own death? Medium, 2 April 2018, https://medium.com/anomalyblog/was-miguel-%C3%A1ngel-bustos-the-argentinean-poet-who-prophesied-his-own-death-59a6c6435048. |
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| Sequeira, Jessica. "Light Detained by Bones: Miguel Ángel Bustos’s “Vision of the Children of Evil,” translated from Spanish by Lucina Schell." //Reading in Translation//, 29 Apr. 2019, https://readingintranslation.com/2019/04/29/light-detained-by-bones-miguel-angel-bustoss-vision-of-the-children-of-evil-translated-from-spanish-by-lucina-schell/. | Sequeira, Jessica. "Light Detained by Bones: Miguel Ángel Bustos’s “Vision of the Children of Evil,” translated from Spanish by Lucina Schell." //Reading in Translation//, 29 Apr. 2019, https://readingintranslation.com/2019/04/29/light-detained-by-bones-miguel-angel-bustoss-vision-of-the-children-of-evil-translated-from-spanish-by-lucina-schell/. |
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| | Schell, Lucina. "Translating the unspeakable: On the fragments of Visión de los hijos del mal by Miguel Ángel Bustos." //Latin American Literature Today//, issue 12, https://latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2019/11/translating-unspeakable-fragments-vision-de-los-hijos-del-mal-miguel-angel-bustos/. |
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| "Vision of the Children of Evil Miguel Ángel Bustos, Translated by Lucina Schell." //Coimpress//, https://www.coimpress.com/books/bustos_vision.shtml#:~:text=Simultaneously%20prophetic%20and%20blasphemous%2C%20Vision,first%20debuted%20in%20the%201960s. | "Vision of the Children of Evil Miguel Ángel Bustos, Translated by Lucina Schell." //Coimpress//, https://www.coimpress.com/books/bustos_vision.shtml#:~:text=Simultaneously%20prophetic%20and%20blasphemous%2C%20Vision,first%20debuted%20in%20the%201960s. |
