Mikronovelo: 'La viro kaj la hundo' de Jaime Grau Casas

"Mallely Martínez Mateos deklamas la mikronovelon 'La viro kaj la hundo' de Jaime Grau Casas, aperinta en la libro Tagoj kaj ruinoj. La prezento estas parto de la programero "Vivu la teatro" de la 77a Hispana Kongreso de Esperanto, okazinta kune kun la 51a ILEI-Kongreso en Madrido en julio 2018."

Mikronoveloj (2)

Jen plua verko da mikronoveloj en Esperanto:

La stultaj infanoj [Los niños tontos, 1956] de Ana María Matute, el la hispana trad. Liven Dek, desegnoj de Pedro Ullate López. Santander: Gutierrez Aduriz, 1988. 100 p. (Hispana literaturo; 5)

Laŭ la katalogo de UEA: "Mikronoveloj pri la infana mondo, plenaj de 'kaŝita kaj obskura poezio'."

Anglalingva traduko, The Foolish Children, aperis ĝuste antaŭ jaro.

Gregor Benton on the proletarian Esperanto movement

I vaguely recall the name Gregor Benton from somewhere; I assume he surfaced somewhere in my erstwhile study of the history of Trotskyism. I see that he is a specialist on China and that he has published on Chinese Trotskyism, Maoism, and Chinese communism overall.

I am familiar with Jacobin magazine. In a country where the very name of Marx is taboo, Jacobin is the most widely known Marxist magazine in the country, "widely" being a relative term but at least not totally invisible among the intellectual reading public. Many years ago, when the magazine was still in gestation, at least one person involved in it was interested in interviewing me on C.L.R. James, but this never materialized.

Nobody in the USA, on the left or otherwise, cares about Esperanto, so I was quite surprised when this article surfaced in Jacobin and by which author:

"Communism in Words" by Gregor Benton

"A brief history of Esperanto, the language intimately tied to the common destiny of the working class."

I can imagine the horror of many American Esperantists to see Esperanto associated with communism in this way, though there are some who have mentioned the proletarian Esperanto movement as an historical phenomenon. Benton's father, who fought against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, defended Esperanto to comrades who dismissed it, using the phrase "communism in words" (which I have never seen anywhere else). Gregor himself learned Esperanto and delivered a euology to his father in Esperanto for the Catalan Esperanto Association.

This is a very good article, with a good historical overview and an objective assessment, advocating Esperanto in a realistic way without hype and cultism, and even with his particular interest as a man of the left.

Benton provides a capsule summary of Zamenhof and of the Esperanto movement's history and present status, then launches into the history of the proletarian Esperanto movement and the hostility engendered in reaction to the various causes that embraced Esperanto. Benton mentions the leading international organization, Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (World Anationalist Association, "SAT" for short), its erstwhile collaboration with the USSR, the eventual Stalinist break with SAT, and the breakaway pro-Moscow Internacio de Proletaj Esperantistoj (International of Proletarian Esperantists).

Benton then covers the persecution of Esperantists by the Nazis and the Stalin regime and its eventual satellite regimes. (Esperanto had a significant presence before the Great Purges. I do not recall the Communist International ever endorsing Esperanto''s rival Ido, though I do remember Ido was part of the mix.) With de-Stalinization, the Esperanto movement was revived in the Soviet bloc, and its association there with the "peace movement" was a vehicle for Esperanto to thrive.

Benton also outlines the history of Esperanto in China, its early association with anarchism and communism. He mentions also the Japanese woman Hasegawa Teru (known by the Esperanto pseudonym "Verda Majo" = Green May) who was to join with the Chinese against Japanese aggression. In Maoist China, Esperanto was initially suppressed, then tolerated, then later, even while under suspicion during the Cultural Revolution, was widely used by the regime for Maoist propaganda. The Esperanto movement thrived in the post-Mao era, but its strength has vacillated.

Finally, Benton tackles the future prospects of Esperanto, with respect to the global changes that have transpired since its early days and what this means for the role and fate of the language -- in recent decades the effects of the fall of the Soviet bloc, the decreased reliance on traditional Esperantist membership organizations, and the rise of online communication. Esperanto thrives in the digital age, and the values it represents are as relevant as ever.

Esperantaj Bitoj

Esperantaj Bitoj estas atentinda blogo. Ekzemple:

• Homoj en ruinoj (pri la Hispana Civila Milito)
• Petro (pri tendenca lernolibro de SAT)
• Reklamoj en esperanto
• Nova retejo de Biblioteko Molera
• Esperantistaj bibliotekoj
• La esperanta gazetaro dum la 1-a mondmilito (IV)
• La esperanta gazetaro dum la 1-a mondmilito (III)
• La esperanta gazetaro dum la 1-a mondmilito (II)
• La esperanta gazetaro dum la 1-a mondmilito (I)
• Biblioteko Ramon Molera Pedrals
• La enigma lingvo de Doktoro X
• Esperantologio (tra densa mallumo) 
• Lasta adiaŭo al L. L. Zamenhof (1917) 
• Neunuflanka modernemo (1931)
• La plej juna tradukistino
• Capablanca kaj la marsloĝanto

Hitler's surprising obsession

Actually, it's not surprising at all to those who have known for decades about Hitler's targeting of the Esperanto movement for persecution as a Jewish conspiracy, and the Nazis' murder of all three of Zamenhof's children. But here's another reminder, with links:

Hitler's surprising obsession

One of the links given is to this blog. Note also:

Speech at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum about Esperanto

I participated in this event, sharing my knowledge with the Holocaust Museum in Washington.

Review of the book La Danĝera Lingvo

This is Don Harlow's review, in English, of "The Dangerous Language," the most thorough documentation of fascist and Stalinist persecution of the Esperanto movement.

New to me though is the reference to Valdemar Langlet, a Swedish Esperantist who saved many Jews from the Nazis.

Charlie Chaplin used Esperanto as the language of the Jewish ghetto in his landmark 1940 film The Great Dictator. I have known about this for decades but never attempted to research what motivated Chaplin. The blogger links this to Nazi persecution of Esperantists. Chaplin could have known about the Nazis' opposition to Esperanto and Esperanto's internationalism which Chaplin would have endorsed.

The blogger does not explain the poster reproduced on his post, and above. It is one of the anti-fascist posters in Esperanto produced during the Spanish Civil War.

Graham Greene & Esperanto (7): Confidential Agent (film) revisited

I already blogged about the film Confidential Agent (1945, 118 min.) and posted the trailer along with it. (For more information on the film see the IMDb site.)

For the novel Graham Greene created the character Dr. Bellows, naive creator of the artificial international language Entrenationo. You can find the video clip featuring Entrenatio and a few others here:

Confidential Agent -- (Movie Clip) Mr. Contreras

Here is the video clip in which Entrenationo appears:



Dr. Bellows, the naive inventor of this language, has no idea that his institute serves as a dangerous meeting ground for international intrigue and a life-and-death struggle.

In the novel, Greene creates an effective portrayal of an artificial language movement completely ineffective and oblivious to the real dangers of the world. Greene probably saw a parallel between Bellows/Entrenationo and Zamenhof/Esperanto. And while Esperantists have often parodied their own foolishness, and in some cases have criticized Zamenhof's political limitations, Zamenhof was no Bellows, and some Esperantists were politically astute, including those who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War, which though not named serves as the backdrop for Greene's novel.

Graham Greene & Esperanto (5): The Confidential Agent

Here is the first installment of excerpts from The Confidential Agent pertaining to the artificial language Entrenationo:

Graham Greene’s Entrenationo (1)

Two more installments are to follow.

Here are a few specimens of literary criticism pertaining specifically to this novel:

The Modern World through the Luminous Path of Prose Fiction: Reading Graham Greene’s A Burnt-out Case and The Confidential Agent as Dystopian Novels by Ayobami Kehinde

Graham Greene's Heroes: Regeneration Through Experience by Francisco John Sabine
 

70-a Hispana Kongreso de Esperanto: Debato Corsetti-Camacho, ktp.

Jen Debato Corsetti-Camacho en 70-a Hispana Kongreso de Esperanto:

Watch live streaming video from 70ahispanakongresodeesperanto at livestream.com

Oni debatas finvenkismon, neologismojn, ktp. La afero ne estas tre interesa, sed Camacho esras pli atentinda ol la absurdulo Corsetti.

Samreteje vi trovos aliajn videojn el tiu kongreso.

Laboristoj kaj Esperanto en Hispanio

Jen atentinda afiŝo en La Blogo de Tonyo (del Barrio):

Inter laborista edukado kaj kultura alternativo

Li referencas kaj nun interrete eldonas sian eseon publikigita en La Arto Labori Kune: Festlibro por Humphrey Tonkin:

“Inter laborista edukado kaj kultura alternativo” (HTML); PDF-formate

Esperanto-Biblioteko "Ramon Molera Pedrals"

Esperanto - Biblioteko "Ramon Molera Pedrals"

Mi ĝojas trovi ĉi tiun bibliotekon interrete. Antaŭ pli ol du jardekoj, t.e. antaŭ la TTT-o kaj eĉ antaŭ ĝenerala aliro al la Interreto, mi intertraktis plurfoje kun ĉi tiu valora biblioteko en lando kiu gravas en la historio de Esperanto. Mi mendis fotokopiojn ekz. de bultenoj de la Hispana Civila Milito, ekz. Popola Fronto. La administrant(in?)o de la biblioteko estis tre helpema.

Tiutempe mi havigis presitan katalogon. Mi ne memoras, ĉu estas libroj en la kolekto, sed ĉe la koncerna retejo oni povas kontroli la kolekton de periodaĵoj.

Ĉiuokaze, longe vivu la biblioteko kaj la nobla Esperanto-movado de Hispanio!

Framasonismo, Respublikismo, Hispanio & Esperanto

Toño del Barrio blogas interese pri framasonismo, referencas sian artikolon:

El Respublikismo ĝis Esperanto tra Framasonismo: Framasonaro en Hispanio, kun speciala mencio al Esperanto, Sennaciulo, julio-aŭgusto 2010.

Enestas tiuteme en Sennaciulo, julio-aŭgusto 2010:

Bildstrio: Framasonismo en Esperantio
4: El Respublikismo ĝis Esperanto, tra Framasonismo
7: Framasonismo en Japanio
8: Framasonismo: kvar jarcentoj da tradicio
9: Framasonismo laŭ Vikipedio
10: Ĉu SAT estas framasona asocio

La ĵus donita ligita dosiero inkluzivas nur ĝis la 4-a paĝo, sed nepre rigardu la bildstrion.

Ilustrita Historio de la Laborista Esperanta Movado

Laboristaj Kronikoj pri la Hispana Esperanto-Movado de Antonio Marco Botella (1996). Recenzo de Ilustrita Historio de la Laborista Esperanta Movado.

Fritz-Hüser-Institut, Dortmund, 1993, 113 paĝoj. En la germana & Esperanto.

• Rainer Noltenius: "Fritz-Hüser-Instituto pri germana kaj eksterlanda laborista literaturo kiel arkivo de la laborista Esperanto-movado"

• Detlev Blanke: "Germana Laborista Esperanto-Asocio 1911-1933 (Historia skizo)"

• Eduard Weichmann: "Kroniko"

• Jiri Proskovec: "Superrigardo pri la Esperanto-arkivo de la Fritz-Hüser-Instituto"

• Ulrich Lins: "Esperantistoj en la Hispana Intercivitana Milito"

• Detlev Blanke: "Elekta bibliografio pri esploroj pri la historio de la laborista Esperanto-movado"