[NetBehaviour] Ray Bradbury R.I.P

Thu Jun 7 20:10:44 CEST 2012

You see, that's the thing which strucked me mostly when I start to go to Palestine.
By the way, did I shared in this list the texts and pictures from Jenin?
www.this.is/Jenin
It happened ten years ago but for me it was recently, I can still recall the sweet odour of the city full of debris with dead people in the remains of their houses.
We visited the morgue and saw toddlers with pieces of grenades protruding from their heads, a nurse with her uniform, a doctor burned to death when he drove an ambulance with oxygen to the only hospital.
But again it's interesting when you read again as I did Foucault's "Punishment and Surveillance". His metaphors of the jail as the ultimate tool of discipline are still useful. In the US more than three millions of people are in jail, in Uruguay with only three millions inhabitants seven thousand are in jail.
Palestine, Kina, Cuba, Guantanamo, Corea, Eritrea, Syria, Irak, Central America, South Africa, Sudan, UK, Spain, Italy, France, jail is as you say the ultimate disciplinating tool. 
Ana

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7 jun 2012 kl. 14:13 skrev Fung-Lin Hall <hall at mutanteggplant.com>:

> Wow.. thanks Ana.. this is amazing.
> I hope we will eventually get to read your story in English.  Yes it's 
> important to be in the third group.. tell your story and
> and pass it on... must break the cycle of violence.
> I particulary was moved by your encounter in Palestine.
> Pretty soon half of the humanity might end of up in jail. Prison 
> industry is a booming business.
> I'll come back and visit your links again..  thank you for taking the 
> time to write and share this..
> 
> Fung-Lin
> 
>> Dear Fung, tha'ts the best I could provide :) A story, translated by
>> Joan Tate from Swedish, the language I wrote the text in, into
>> English. It was part of an anthology published by Serpent's Tai, the
>> Garden of the Alphabet, with European storytellers.
>> 
>> http://authspot.com/short-stories/the-new-country/
>> 
>> I have another short story translated into Englis, published by Faber
>> and Faber, Columbu's Egg. Both books are available through Amazon.
>> 
>> I am now translating into Spanish the book I wrote in Swedish about my
>> time in jail,
>> 
>> http://anavaldes.wordpress.com/2008/ (all the texts are in Swedish but
>> Google Translator can give you an idea)
>> 
>> It's interesting because when I come to Sweden, 1978, directly after
>> four years in jail, only 23 years old, I refused to speak about the
>> time in jail or to write about it. I published several books but it
>> was fiction or essays but none about my time in jail.
>> 
>> It was only after my first visit to Palestine 2001, one week before
>> the Second Intifada, when I started to tell about the jail, since I
>> discovered almost all Palestinians I met had been in jail or had some
>> relative who was in jail. And to be able to tell them I was due to
>> remember again my own ordeal.
>> 
>> Then I read a wonderful book by the Italian philosopher Giorgio
>> Agamben, "The Remnants of Auschwitz". He read all literature we have
>> from the time (Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl, Kerstes, etc) and divided
>> the survivors of Auschwitz in three groups. The first group was the
>> survivors, they wanted survive not matter what, they paid all the
>> costs they were demanded, they were capos, they betrayed their friends
>> they took their relatives to the ovens, they did what they were asked
>> for only for survive.
>> The other group was the people who wanted survive to have a revenge,
>> to be able to punish them who did that against them, they survived
>> with only that goal, to pay back and be this time the executioners.
>> And the third group wanted survive to be able to tell others what
>> happened, to pass to the new generations the ordeals and pains they
>> passed through, to be the witness of what happened.
>> Agamben said all the writers from Auschwitz belonged to this third group.
>> And I feel myself as one of the group, my book is an hybrid between
>> literature (I am a writer :) it means my language, my way to tell, is
>> literary) and witness rapport, not an autobiography, but a biography
>> about a time, a place, an atmosphere.
>> 
>> It should be easier for me to find an English publisher if I translate
>> my book into Spanish, it's a lot more simple to find a reader from
>> Spanish than from Swedish. Besides I need this book published here in
>> Uruguay, where I am back after 34 years of absence, to share my views
>> with the people I was in jail with.
>> There are very few people who wrote about the jail here, and most of
>> the books are full with anecdots or with some kind of hero or heroine
>> stories, it seem's important to keep the myth alive :)
>> And since many of the people I was in jail with are today ministers,
>> president and senators here, none want tell about the jail as it was,
>> betrayals, small revenges, errors of judgement, greed, missreadings,
>> humanity in all glory and failure.
>> 
>> My book is very frank, I tell about all these things, the wonderful
>> things we shared, the friendship, the solidarity, the care, but also
>> about the things who made us humans :)
>> 
>> Sorry for the long post, I was carried away :)
>> 
>> If I am anle to start some crowdfunding project maybe I can pay myself
>> the translation and the edition of my book in English! :)
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Ana
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Fung-Lin Hall<hall at mutanteggplant.com>  wrote:
>>> Wow..what a story.. thank you Ana.  Now I must read your story.  What
>>> were your books you narrated?
>>>  I remember some latin American films about political prisoners that I
>>> saw.  There are many..now I can't recall the titles.
>>> Btw.. I added more links .. to Paris Review.. and Hitchcock film based
>>> on his story. (I don't know when you visited).
>>> 
>>> F.L.
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