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George Orwell 1 9 8 4<br />

he knew in his dream that in some way the lives<br />

of his mother and his sister had been sacrificed to<br />

his own. It was one of those dreams which, while<br />

retaining the characteristic dream scenery, are a<br />

continuation of one's intellectual life, and in<br />

which one becomes aware of facts and i<strong>de</strong>as<br />

which still seem new and valuable after one is<br />

awake. The thing that now sud<strong>de</strong>nly struck<br />

Winston was that his mother's <strong>de</strong>ath, nearly thirty<br />

years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way<br />

that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he<br />

perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time<br />

when there was still privacy, love, and<br />

friendship, and when the members of a family<br />

stood by one another without needing to know<br />

the reason. His mother's memory tore at his heart<br />

because she had died loving him, when he was<br />

too young and selfish to love her in return, and<br />

because somehow, he did not remember how, she<br />

had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty<br />

that was private and unalterable. Such things, he<br />

saw, could not happen today. Today there were<br />

fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion,<br />

no <strong>de</strong>ep or complex sorrows. All this he seemed<br />

to see in the large eyes of his mother and his<br />

sister, looking up at him through the green water,<br />

hundreds of fathoms down and still sinking.<br />

Sud<strong>de</strong>nly he was standing on short springy turf,<br />

on a summer evening when the slanting rays of<br />

the sun gil<strong>de</strong>d the ground. The landscape that he<br />

was looking at recurred so often in his dreams<br />

that he was never fully certain whether or not he<br />

had seen it in the real world. In his waking<br />

thoughts he called it the Gol<strong>de</strong>n Country. It was<br />

an old, rabbit-bitten pasture, with a foot-track<br />

wan<strong>de</strong>ring across it and a molehill here and there.<br />

In the ragged hedge on the opposite si<strong>de</strong> of the<br />

field the boughs of the elm trees were swaying<br />

very faintly in the breeze, their leaves just stirring<br />

in <strong>de</strong>nse masses like women's hair. Somewhere<br />

near at hand, though out of sight, there was a<br />

clear, slow-moving stream where dace were<br />

swimming in the pools un<strong>de</strong>r the willow trees.<br />

The girl with dark hair was coming towards them<br />

across the field. With what seemed a single<br />

soñaba estaba seguro <strong>de</strong> que, <strong>de</strong> un modo u otro, las<br />

vidas <strong>de</strong> su madre y su hermana fueron sacrificadas<br />

para que él viviera. Era uno <strong>de</strong> esos ensueños que, a<br />

pesar <strong>de</strong> utilizar toda la escenografía onírica habitual,<br />

son una continuación <strong>de</strong> nuestra vida intelectual y en<br />

los que nos damos cuenta <strong>de</strong> hechos e i<strong>de</strong>as que<br />

siguen teniendo un valor <strong>de</strong>spués <strong>de</strong>l <strong>de</strong>spertar. Pero<br />

lo que <strong>de</strong> pronto sobresaltó a Winston, al pensar<br />

luego en lo que había soñado, fue que la muerte <strong>de</strong><br />

su madre, ocurrida treinta años antes, había sido<br />

trágica y dolorosa <strong>de</strong> un modo que ya no era posible.<br />

Pensó que la tragedia pertenecía a los tiempos<br />

antiguos y que sólo podía concebirse en una época en<br />

que había aún intimidad — vida privada, amor y<br />

amistad — y en que los miembros <strong>de</strong> una familia<br />

permanecían juntos sin necesidad <strong>de</strong> tener una razón<br />

especial para ello. El recuerdo <strong>de</strong> su madre le<br />

torturaba porque había muerto amándole cuando él<br />

era <strong>de</strong>masiado joven y egoísta para <strong>de</strong>volverle ese<br />

cariño y porque <strong>de</strong> alguna manera — no recordaba<br />

cómo — se había sacrificado a un concepto <strong>de</strong> la<br />

lealtad que era privadísimo e inalterable. Bien<br />

comprendía Winston que esas cosas no podían<br />

suce<strong>de</strong>r ahora. Lo que ahora había era miedo, odio y<br />

dolor físico, pero no emociones dignas ni penas<br />

profundas y complejas. Todo esto lo había visto,<br />

soñando, en los ojos <strong>de</strong> su madre y su hermanita, que<br />

lo miraban a él a través <strong>de</strong> las aguas ver<strong>de</strong>oscuras, a<br />

una inmensa profundidad y sin <strong>de</strong>jar <strong>de</strong> hundirse.<br />

De pronto, se vio <strong>de</strong> pie sobre el césped en una tar<strong>de</strong><br />

<strong>de</strong> verano en que los rayos oblicuos <strong>de</strong>l sol doraban<br />

la corta hierba. El paisaje que se le aparecía ahora se<br />

le presentaba con tanta frecuencia en sueños que<br />

nunca estaba completamente seguro <strong>de</strong> si lo había<br />

visto alguna vez en la vida real. Cuando estaba<br />

<strong>de</strong>spierto, lo llamaba el País Dorado. Lo cubrían<br />

pastos mordidos por los conejos con un sen<strong>de</strong>ro que<br />

serpenteaba por él y, aquí y allá, unas pequeñísimas<br />

elevaciones <strong>de</strong>l terreno. Al fondo, se velan unos<br />

olmos que se balanceaban suavemente con la brisa y<br />

sus follajes parecían cabelleras <strong>de</strong> mujer. Cerca,<br />

aunque fuera <strong>de</strong> la vista, corría un claro arroyuelo <strong>de</strong><br />

lento fluir.<br />

La muchacha morena venía hacia él por aquel<br />

campo. Con un solo movimiento se <strong>de</strong>spojó <strong>de</strong> sus<br />

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