segunda-feira, outubro 24, 2005

O ANJO DA HISTORIA


IX

My wing is ready for flight,
I would like to turn back.
If I stayed timeless time,
I would have little luck.

Mein Flügel ist zum Schwung bereit,
ich kehrte gern zurück,
denn blieb ich auch lebendige Zeit,
ich hätte wenig Glück.

Gerherd Scholem,
‘Gruss vom Angelus’

A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
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Walter Benjamin
Imagem: Angelus Novus, Paul Klee

2 Comments:

At 6:57 da manhã, Blogger P said...

Vais à Madeira?
Em trabalho ou pura diversão? ;)
Que bom.
Hoje não consigo convencer-te de um roteiro turístico... Mas, amanhã dou-te.

Beijinhos e bom trabalho.

 
At 7:27 da tarde, Anonymous Anónimo said...

Isso é stayed de ficar ou stayed de parar ?

Possível tradução seria : A minha asa está pronta para voar, gostaria de voltar atrás. Se parasse (tentasse parar ?) o tempo sem tempo, teria pouca sorte.

??

Algo assim ?

 

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