From:
"Mosaic of days
The paths wind
September 13, 2010 - Tonio Dell'Olio.
Yesterday Eduardo Galeano, in Stockholm, has received the prestigious literary prize
Swedish title to Stig Dagerman. Here I take the
translation of his short acceptance speech for the Award.
Dear Stig,
We hope to be worthy of your desperate hope.
We hope to have the courage to be alone and the boldness of
be together, because it is useless without a tooth mouth, hand or finger without
.
We hope to be disobedient, whenever we receive orders
that debase our conscience or violate our
good sense.
We hope to earn that call us crazy, as they were called crazy
the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo , to commit the folly of
refuse to forget the days of amnesia mandatory.
We hope to be so stubborn as to continue to believe, against all evidence
, worth to be men because we were
hurt, but we are not finished.
We hope to be able to continue to walk the walk
wind, despite the falls and betrayals and defeats,
because the story continues, after us, and when she says goodbye,
is saying goodbye.
We hope to keep alive the certainty that can be
compatriots and contemporaries of everyone who lives
animated by the desire for justice and the desire of beauty, wherever born and
wherever they live, because the maps of the soul and Time does not have
borders. (Trans. M. Trambaioli)
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