Ricardo Lugo

I remember that argument.

But the point is that forgetting...

A human being that existed is a pain that both those who survived and those who were left behind feel.

And it is so shocking that Mendel, being forgotten as a subject, as a memory, that death was even more shocking than physical death.

And finally, well, the war.

The war doesn't understand.

In the book it seems that the war didn't even have an explanation, it just happened and the war doesn't understand Mendel.

Mendel doesn't understand the war much less, but it doesn't matter.

Mendel decides to exist and the war can continue.

There is a phrase by Zweig in the book that was my favorite, which says, Mendel was no longer Mendel, like the world was no longer the world.

And I think that phrase is very alive from the feeling of Stefan Zweig of what was going to come in Europe and what was already happening in the European factory.

Remember, the First World War had already ended, but he didn't feel...

Que la paz iba a perdurar.

Que no se habían hecho los cambios necesarios, en parte porque no se podían.

Que el mundo había quebrado de tal forma que la guerra era inevitable.

Y con eso, termino este episodio leyendo un micro cuento de Ana María Shúa, gran autora, por supuesto, argentina, la reina del micro cuento.

Pueden escuchar mi episodio con ella, pero aquí les leo uno de sus cuentos que viene del libro Guerra, que creo que va a conectar mucho con esa desesperación de Stefan Zweig, que quiso traer, entre otras cosas, en este cuento.

Más se perdió en la guerra, mucho más.

Se perdió un perno y todos los bulones y la billetera y una mano.

Se perdió la vergüenza, el territorio, el pelo, la alegría.