"Diary of a Double Anguish (1939-1946)"

Jules Supervielle
Spanish translation by Fransisco Álvez Francese

Lento Magazine - Fiction

July 2019

EXTRACT FROM THE TEXT

“Let's light the lamp, let's write no matter what. Oh, pen, blessed pen, you who only impose silence on my organs, on my nerves, on all those anarchists of the inner world, beloved pen from whose tip the precious images are born, you who, more than hypnotists, grant calm and self-control.
My friend Saurat said, in Modernes, that I am a healthy writer. Is it because I flee from the morbid with all my might? But I cannot flee except by facing it in verse or prose. After all, perhaps that is what we call health.”