Friday, July 22, 2011

SI TE GUSTA NO ME GUSTA





Canadá tiene una significación especial en la vida de Hemingway. De hecho el inicio de su carrera periodística está ligada con ese país. Pero como en todas las cosas de Ernest y sobre su aventurado trajinar, uno va descubriendo el juego de las comparaciones y el placer por ciertos gustos que el norteamericano fue adquiriendo de manera informal , cotidiana y doméstica. Hemingway nunca fue poeta. Acaso sus composiciones tengan una relación tardía con algunos de sus admirados maestros. Ernest, sin embargo, unió palabras y dejó plasmado sobre el papel algunos textos discutibles que prefiero sean analizados por expertos conocedores.

El poeta y traductor argentino Gerardo Gambolini, ha llevado al castellano dos esclarecedores poemas de Hemingway que particularmente a los investigadores nos permiten echar una mirada sumamente interesante sobre la personalidad del novelista. Me gustan los canadienses y Me gustan los americanos tienen un clima particular, son pinceladas llenas de vivencias que aparecen como una crónica detallada. Uno va armando el rompecabezas literario y descubre al Hemingway callejero, amante del boxeo y las carreras de cabellos, al que se burla de las costumbres y al que critica el sistema. Un Hemingway a la medida y al mejor precio.
Ustedes me dirán si estoy en lo cierto.



Me gustan los canadienses

Me gustan los canadienses.


Son tan distintos de los americanos.


Se van a casa a la noche.


Sus cigarrillos no huelen mal.


Sus sombreros les quedan bien.


Creen de verdad que ganaron la guerra.


No creen en la Literatura.


Piensan que el Arte se ha exagerado.


Pero son geniales con los patines.


Alguno son muy ricos.


Pero cuando son ricos compran más caballos


que automóviles.


Chicago llama a Toronto una ciudad puritana.


Pero el boxeo y las carreras de caballos


son ilegales en Chicago.


Nadie trabaja los domingos.


Nadie.


Eso a mí no me enoja.


Hay sólo un Woodbine,


¿pero han estado alguna vez en Blue Bonnets? *


Si uno mata a alguien con un coche en Ontario


es probable que vaya preso.


Así que nadie lo hace.


Han habido más de 500 personas


muertas por coches en Chicago.


En lo que va del año.


Es difícil hacerse rico en Canadá.


Pero es fácil hacer dinero.


Hay demasiados salones de té.


Pero, claro, no hay cabarets.


Si uno le da a un mozo 25 centavos de propina


él dice “Gracias”.


En lugar de llamar al gorila.


Dejan que las mujeres viajen paradas en los tranvías.


Incluso si son bonitas.


Todos se apuran por llegar a casa a cenar


y a escuchar sus radios.


Son buena gente.


Me gustan.

* Woodbine Race Course, hipódromo de Toronto; Blue Bonnets Raceway, hipódromo de Montreal.






I like Canadians


I like Canadians.


They are so unlike Americans.


They go home at night.


Their cigarets don’t smell bad.


Their hats fit.


They really believe that they won the war.


They don’t believe in Literature.


They think Art has been exaggerated.


But they are wonderful on ice skates.


A few of them are very rich.


But when they are rich they buy more horses


Than motor cars.


Chicago calls Toronto a puritan town.


But both boxing and horse-racing are illegal


In Chicago.


Nobody works on Sunday.


Nobody.


That doesn’t make me mad.


There is only one Woodbine.


But were you ever at Blue Bonnets?


If you kill somebody with a motor car in Ontario


You are liable to go to jail.


So it isn’t done.


There have been over 500 people killed by motor cars


In Chicago


So far this year.


It is hard to get rich in Canada.


But it is easy to make money.


There are too many tea rooms.


But, then, there are no cabarets.


If you tip a waiter a quarter


He says “Thank you.”


Instead of calling the bouncer.


They let women stand up in the street cars.


Even if they are good-looknig.


They are all in a hurry to get home to supper


And their radio sets.


They are a fine people.


I like them.






Me gustan los americanos




Me gustan los americanos.


Son tan distintos de los canadienses.


No se toman en serio a sus policías.


Van a Montreal a beber. (1)


No a criticar.


Sostienen que ganaron la guerra.


Pero en el fondo saben que no.


Tienen mucho respeto por los ingleses.


Les gusta vivir en el exterior.


No se jactan de la forma en que se bañan.


Pero se bañan.


Tienen muy buena dentadura.


Y usan B.V.D’s todo el año. (2)


Me gustaría que no se jactaran de eso.


Tienen la segunda mejor marina del mundo.


Pero nunca lo mencionan.


Les gustaría tener de presidente a Henry Ford.


Pero no van a votarlo.


Le vieron el juego a Bill Bryan. (3)


Se cansaron de Billy Sunday. (4)


Los hombres usan cortes de pelo muy graciosos.


Son difíciles de engañar en Europa.


Han estado allí una vez.


Crearon a Barney Google, Mutt y Jeff.


y Jiggs. (5)


No cuelgan a las mujeres asesinas.


Las ponen en vodevils.


Leen el Saturday Evening Post


y creen en Santa Claus.


Cuando hacen dinero


hacen mucho dinero.


Son buena gente.


(1) “Québec rechazó [la prohibición] ya en 1919 y pasó a conocerse como el ‘sumidero’de América del Norte, pero acudían turistas en tropel a la ‘vieja Québec histórica’ y el gobierno provincial cosechó enormes ganancias de la venta de alcohol” (Canadian Encyclopedia, 2nd edn. [Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988]: 1765). Tomado de http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/942.html
(2) B.V.D’s: marca de calzoncillos.
(3) William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), abogado y político norteamericamo que se postuló sin éxito a la presidencia de EE.UU.
(4) William Ashley Sunday (1862-1935), atleta y beisbolista norteamericano convertido en el más famoso e influyente evangelista estadounidense de las dos primeras décadas del siglo XX.
(5) personajes de tiras cómicas norteamericanas.



I like Americans


I like Americans.


They are so unlike Canadians.


They do not take their policemen seriously.


They come to Montreal to drink.


Not to criticize.


They claim they won the war.


But they know at heart that they didn’t.


They have such respect for Englishmen.


They like to live abroad.


They do not brag about how they take baths.


But they take them.


Their teeth are so good.


And they wear B.V.D.’s all the year round.


I wish they didn’t brag about it.


They have the second best navy in the world.


But they never mention it.


They would like to have Henry Ford for president.


But they will not elect him.


They saw through Bill Bryan.


They have gotten tired of Billy Sunday.


Their men have such funny hair cuts.


They are hard to suck in on Europe.


They have been there once.


They produced Barney Google, Mutt and Jeff.


And Jiggs.


They do not hang lady murderers.


They put them in vaudeville.


They read the Saturday Evening Post


And believe in Santa Claus.


When they make money


They make a lot of money.


They are fine people.

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