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Southern Cone Literature:
Oliverio Girondo (1891-1967)

Black and white photograph of of Oliverio Girondo, with wife and fellow author Norah Lange.

Oliverio Girondo with his wife, the Argentine author Norah Lange.



¡Guillotinemos las amarras lógicas!

¡Seamos pueriles, ya que sentimos el cansancio de repetir los gestos de los que hace setenta siglos están bajo la tierra!

¡Tengamos fe en la plegaria o en la blasfemia, en el albur de un aburrimiento paradisíaco o en la voluptuosidad de condenarnos!

— Text published in Martin Fierro, March 20, 1924. (Issue: Segunda época,  año 1, n 2)



Translation:

Let us cut ourselves loose from logical moorings!

Let us be childish as we are tired of repeating the gestures of those who have lain below the earth for seventy centuries!

Let us have faith in prayers or in blasphemy, in the pun of heavenly boredom or in the voluptuousness of damnation!

 

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