{"id":1142,"date":"2006-03-28T09:11:43","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T14:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2006-03-28T09:13:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T14:13:18","slug":"enzensberger-on-radical-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/enzensberger-on-radical-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"Enzensberger on Radical Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.habanaelegante.com\/Summer2000\/Heberto2.jpg\" alt=\"Padilla\" align=right \/><br \/>\nOne of my favorite moments was seeing\/hearing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/cuba\/story\/0,11983,712716,00.html\">Heberto Padilla<\/a> read from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/page.php\/prmID\/1113\">Hans Magnus Enzensberger<\/a>&#8216;s <em>&#8220;Sinking of the Titanic.&#8221;<\/em> The book and poem are a critique of the changes in Cuba and include a line, something like, &#8220;Where is the poet, Heberto Padilla?&#8221;<br \/>\nPadilla, who had only recently been released from many years spent under house arrest, looked up and said: &#8220;Here am I. Here am I.&#8221; Then he laughed.<br \/>\nI had invited Padilla to come down from his new home in Princeton and talk in the Carrboro ArtCenter&#8217;s poetry series. It was easier for him to laugh in Carrboro than in Cuba, but he as a poet and writer wanted to be in a Spanish speaker\/reading country and was uneasy about his new freedom which included a large dose of linguistic exile in the mix.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/images\/media\/566_enzensberger.95x110.jpg\" alt=\"Enzensberger\" align=left \/><br \/>\nSince I have a lot of opportunity to read the various writings from Enzensberger (in translation) including his wonderful children&#8217;s book,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/biblio?inkey=62-0805062998-0\"> The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t read his direct cultural criticism much.<\/p>\n<p>While reading the Habermas entry at signandsignal, I found myself drawn to Enzensberger&#8217;s essay link on the sidebar. <a href=\"http:\/\/signandsight.com\/features\/493.html\">&#8220;The radical loser: Hans Magnus Enzensberger looks at the kind of ideological trigger required to ignite the radical loser &#8211; whether amok killer, murderer or terrorist &#8211; and make him explode.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite moments was seeing\/hearing Heberto Padilla read from Hans Magnus Enzensberger&#8216;s &#8220;Sinking of the Titanic.&#8221; The book and poem are a critique of the changes in Cuba and include a line, something like, &#8220;Where is the poet, Heberto Padilla?&#8221; Padilla, who had only recently been released from many years spent under house [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}