Dialogue About a Dialogue  J. L. Borges August 19, 2008 by Sineokov

 

Une création inattendue où un texte de JL Borges qui touche à l’immortalité de l’âme croise l’univers onirique de deux maîtres de l’artiste : Warhol et Tarkovski, évoquant avec subtilité la mélancolie qui pousse à la solitude, au suicide. Qu’est-ce que l’existence ? Qu’est-ce l’homme ? La fragilité de la vie et la vanité de l’homme, deux points de départ pour un voyage vers l’au-delà… 

 

Gabriel Otero  : direction , edition et sound design .  Paris . 21 05 2k13

"Dialogue sur un dialogue" in El Hacedor,  1960, Jorge Luis Borges traduction de Paul et Sylvia Bénichou.

 Copyright Maria Kodama Borges Fundacion Internacional Jorge Luis Borges.

dédié a Nestor  Otero ...

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Dialogue About a Dialogue :: J. L. Borges August 19, 2008 by Sineokov

 

A: Absorbed in our discussion of immortality, we had let night fall without lighting the lamp, and we couldn’t see each other’s faces. With an offhandedness or gentleness more convincing than passion would have been, Macedonio Fernandez’ voice said once more that the soul is immortal. He assured me that the death of the body is altogether insignificant, and that dying has to be the most unimportant thing that can happen to a man. I was playing with Macedonio’s pocketknife, opening and closing it. A nearby accordion was infinitely dispatching La Comparsita, that dismaying trifle that so many people like because it’s been misrepresented to them as being old. . . . I suggested to Macedonio that we kill ourselves, so we might have our discussion without all the racket.

 

Z: (mockingly) But I suspect that at the last moment you reconsidered.

 

A: (now deep in mysticism) Quite frankly, I don’t remember whether we committed suicide that night or not.

[From Collected Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley]

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