The Beauty of the Beast

 ¿No es acaso esta escultura colosal en hierro más hermosa que el animal vivo que la inspiró?

Isn´t this colossal iron sculpture more beautiful than the live animal that inspired it?

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El arte de callar

Hay días cuando la pluma no fluye: se niega a escribir. No quiere escribir lo que torpemente le dicto. Hace bien. Debo agradecerle su rebeldía porque lo hace por mi bien, porque sabe, mejor que yo, lo que me conviene: callar. Le hago caso: dejo, entonces, pluma y libreta sobre la mesa de escribir y salgo a caminar por el barrio, a sudar venenos.

Reading and Book Signing

MEET THE AUTHOR
Santiago Daydí-Tolson

READING & BOOK SIGNING

TUESDAY, JULY 22

6:30 - 8:30PM

CENTRAL LIBRARY

600 SOLEDAD, 78205

Born and raised in Chile, UTSA professor and poet Dr. Santiago Daydi-Tolson,author of Under the Walnut Tree, will read from his works and discuss thedifferences between writing in Spanish and writing in English. Copies of the book will be available for sale.

Writing and Reading

Once a novel has been written and published it exists as a final product, an object to be handled by other hands and other minds than those of the writer for whom the book as object appears surprisingly material.

            It is not until others begin reading the story encoded in the written pages of the book that the object ceases to be a simple thing and becomes an experience, a human, personal and very individual experience.

            The author can only hope that the readers may have as much pleasure and gain as much insight on the human spirit as those gained and enjoyed in  the process of putting down in words the imagined story.

            The characters, in turn, revive with every reader.

            Hope many resurrect Ari and his friends and relatives from the pages of Under the Walnut Tree.

Realism and Fantasy

In literature, both realism an fantasy have limitations, both have aesthetic qualities. A subtle combination of both narrative approaches may give a novel the concreteness of reality as well as the fantasy of the ideal. Such is the case, I surmise, of Under the Walnut Tree.