MAY THE WALLS OF FRENCH
'Poetry is on the street'
'How more I make revolution more desire I have to make love '
' No ban '
' Let's be realistic demand the impossible '
'The imagination to power "
' Let's make love not war '
ONLY MEMORY
MAY 68
By Armando Arteaga
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43 years are met in France in May of student barricades. In this May 68, university students began to head system, rose to power: the poetry of the street, and the surprising universality and prominence to change things from the bottom up. Three students led the student unrest that resulted in the proposal of the "critical university." We have the right to "criticize" it.
Three students were the undisputed leaders. Daniel Cohn-Bendit (main leader of the outbreak), students then Danny called him "Red". Not necessarily because he had a heart Bolshevik but because it was a "flat" Grasset and red, star of Paris on May, agitator and orator born, one hundred percent: actor and promoter of the student movement, the antiestablisment: tornado that swept quickly from old and outdated social structures academic and dozing in the cloisters of the Sorbonne. Alain Geismar, bold, quick guy who quoted Marx, Lenin and Mao, like Montaigne, Rousseau, and Malraux. And, the beautiful Jacques Sauvageot, which seemed a character out of a film of the nouvelle-vague and leader of the "National Union of Students of France."
Dany "El Rojo."
After May 68 the world was different. The student revolt at Nanterre began when Pierre Grappin, dean of the college-satellite of the Sorbonne, decided to stay dictating a change curriculum subjects who had promoted Cohn-Bendit, the student movement flared up worse if the rector refused to anti-imperialist organizing a conference in support of the student revolt in Berlin. It armed the tole-tole in Nanterre, where he rubbed the two opposing trends: the Praetorians of Cohn-Bendit on one side and the other extreme right-wing agitators in the group "Occident". Cohn-Bendit, activating several tables had been creating the conditions for the protest, the strike of sorts, criticizing and ridiculing the stilted rules are then discussed until the separation of sexes in dormitories.
University students, were involved in a straitjacket conservative, were treated with infants starting school, had few rights and many obligations and few facilities for work activity awaiting them upon graduation. French university classrooms was saturated, the teachers were "mandarins" of certain intellectual absolutism and decadent academicism. Had a repressive environment and conservative students faced, even with enhancement of creative leisure: making art, doing what they please, to teach, to scare bourgeois dazed and manuals of the alphabet of Molotov cocktails, and the back room Comrade Mauser, was all for laughs, such a pleasure that was almost a ritual to Groucho Marx, a gag, this whole pantomime handkerchief puschista. " The truth of things, that under a repressive and conservative environment, began to impose an anarchic way of looking at life, had to play with the imagination to change the rigid standards of the conservative teachers inflated his academic mediocrity.
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On May 68 in Lima, I was a college student still did not finish high school. While in school, I was preparing at the Academy of ACUNIA to enter the Faculty of Architecture of the UNI. My friends said "dove" And he had the rock.
The atmosphere of unrest also walked in here three times crowned villa. The defeat of the guerrillas of 65 with the death of Luis de la Puente Uceda, Guillermo Lobaton and Ensuring Maximum MIR left feeling uncertain for any expectation popular insurrectionary movement. Hugo Blanco, Trotskyist leader Héctor Béjar FIR and the ELN, were imprisoned in the pediment, released later by Nasser's government amnesty Velasco. Years later when I went to college I met Jacqueline Lobaton, widow of the guerrilla, who was French, which makes a modest tangential her profile Vargas Llosa in his novel "The antics of the bad girl." Some evenings since the early seventies until he had to leave the country, we met this enigmatic woman to talk, at length, about everyday political at Cafe Versailles in the portals of the Plaza San Martin, next to a great bookstore in French.
In the courtyards of the UNI, there had been two separate tributes, October festivities: the conference and visit militant García Márquez and Vargas Llosa (today, two American Nobel Prizes) in Architecture yard sighting the contributions already established literary boom, extremely well visualized by Emir Rodríguez Monegal in his book "The boom of the Latin American novel" (Editorial Tiempo Nuevo, 3rd. Edition. Caracas, 1962, pg. 14):
"So forgetting the fanciful excesses of those who only see the hand of the CIA or the Vatican or Moscow, or the Casa de las Americas, or the Swedish Academy, or the British Council, behind each award, each edition of each translation There is something important from the Second World War, a new generation of readers appear in Latin America and determine the first "boom" of the Latin American novel. "
The death of Che Guevara in Bolivia October 67 was another shock to the Latin American left who preached the theory of focus, which blew Mariguella stubbornness, Santucho, Enriquez, and other theorists of the urban guerrilla, was living and Since then the throes of the Cultural Revolution China where Mao was born bible "Red Book" and a recipe for handling the art and culture, "Yenan Forum", a document that later would claim the group "Narrative", see two issues of the magazine of the same name as a new burst Marcuse youth protest guru, Victor Jara appears as a respected singer-songwriter since the triumph of Allende, and later give the coup of Pinochet revolution Cuba with Fidel, and the hippie movement of the power of flowers in the USA., after the defeat of imperialism in Vietnam.
events in Paris in May 68 defined high expectations of the student movement Peruvian post-May '68, I remember in the excitement, a spectacular student march to the Plaza San Martin where students converged in San Marcos, UNI, The Agraria, La Catolica, the Cantuta, where publicly renounced: a People's Action, the historian Juan Jose Vega, at the request of the student assembly square. The historian Juan Jose Vega, had been mayor of Miraflores, and repeatedly asked, personally, about this episode, years later, when we were friends (with Juan Jose Vega), about this political episode and cyclical, as a catharsis, which I dimension as something epic. The leaders followed the masses "sine die", live and direct. That was May 68. Was: Forbidden to Forbid.
All the talk of a compromise. What is literature? "Asks Jean Paul Sartre in his book of the same name (Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires, 1967):" If you want to commit what are you waiting to join the Communist Party? ". "A poor call me stubborn spirit, which for him is certainly the worst of insults: an author who was dragged painfully from one war to another, whose name sometimes wakes languid memories: the old guard are accused of failure of immortality: thank god knows, many honest people who put in their best hope of immortality. In the eyes of an American foliculario, my fault I is not never read Bergson and Freud, as Flaubert, who did not commit, it seems that haunts me like a remorse. "
Sartrean Existentialism gave solid reasons to experience the foundations of youth protest, although some students called "old rotten" Sartre, and spoke at a student rally as "rotten old" standing on a box fruit, and later also rejected the award Nobel. Sartre immortalized his words: "Literature is disagreement, literature is escapism, is commitment, desire for immortality." The truth is that Sartre was old - into something provocative and inspiring-a protein of the maverick spirit of May 68.
is better and wise to ask these things of "commitment" of the writer to our friend the poet Leoncio Bueno, who brought poetry and political activism in their own actions, though he came from quarries of the labor movement. A couple of years I had to present a tribute to him by the Faculty of Architecture UNI for their journey as a writer committed where the students remember the commitment to give poetic voice to the first migrant shantytowns in his book invasion.
I always think every writer aspires to diagnose the reality it addresses, according to their world. What interests him is trying to understand the laws governing the social and emotional present of their creativity. May 68 helped to understand the evolution of literature as ideological activity of the man who knows the reality in a given historical situation. That was for me, especially the message of the student revolt of May '68.
