José Bergamín’s Los filólogos or when literacy produces babelic confusion

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Autor(a) principal: Santa María Fernández, M.ª Teresa
Data de Publicação: 2022
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: spa
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i18.30977
Resumo: José Bergamín wrote in 1925 Los filólogos, a comedy where he satirizes the desire to enclose language in labels and cards, losing in this way and the understanding and communication. On other occasions, the Spanish playwright had used themes and characters from Greek tragedy, and this time José Bergamín uses Aristophanes’s Birds as an “artefacto” to satirize the Center for Historical Studies, directed and founded by Menéndez Pidal in 1910 and where Pedro Salinas and Enrique Díaz Canedo collaborated. The play serves to criticize the first studies on Phonetics and Phonology by Tomás Navarro Tomás and the effort to explain Literature with labels by Américo Castro. In the opposite part, Bergamín proposes the poetic and literary vision of authors such as Valle-Inclán or Unamuno, who did not want to enclose or explain scientifically the language. The comedy, therefore, parodies the eagerness to literate to explain the language, because, in the opinion of the writer, paradoxically, this literacy means the end of culture, as reflected in 1933 in his essay La decadencia del analfabetismo. Los filólogos denote the influence of Greek comedy in various scenes and characters and allows us to contemplate on stage not only the Chorus of Birds, but also that of Monkeys, Satyrs and Chips. Above all, the comedy represented a hymn to the best of language to reach everyone and achieve communication between different people: its freedom and multiple possibilities; not having to confine to a cage or enslaving label. It seems, in this way, that philological study, taken as a simple science and forgetting the artistic aspect, becomes a meaningless dialogue of monkeys and birds; a hubbub that, as in the Tower of Babel, prevents men from understanding each other.
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spelling José Bergamín’s Los filólogos or when literacy produces babelic confusionLos filólogos de José Bergamín o cuando la alfabetización produce la confusión babélicaJosé Bergamín wrote in 1925 Los filólogos, a comedy where he satirizes the desire to enclose language in labels and cards, losing in this way and the understanding and communication. On other occasions, the Spanish playwright had used themes and characters from Greek tragedy, and this time José Bergamín uses Aristophanes’s Birds as an “artefacto” to satirize the Center for Historical Studies, directed and founded by Menéndez Pidal in 1910 and where Pedro Salinas and Enrique Díaz Canedo collaborated. The play serves to criticize the first studies on Phonetics and Phonology by Tomás Navarro Tomás and the effort to explain Literature with labels by Américo Castro. In the opposite part, Bergamín proposes the poetic and literary vision of authors such as Valle-Inclán or Unamuno, who did not want to enclose or explain scientifically the language. The comedy, therefore, parodies the eagerness to literate to explain the language, because, in the opinion of the writer, paradoxically, this literacy means the end of culture, as reflected in 1933 in his essay La decadencia del analfabetismo. Los filólogos denote the influence of Greek comedy in various scenes and characters and allows us to contemplate on stage not only the Chorus of Birds, but also that of Monkeys, Satyrs and Chips. Above all, the comedy represented a hymn to the best of language to reach everyone and achieve communication between different people: its freedom and multiple possibilities; not having to confine to a cage or enslaving label. It seems, in this way, that philological study, taken as a simple science and forgetting the artistic aspect, becomes a meaningless dialogue of monkeys and birds; a hubbub that, as in the Tower of Babel, prevents men from understanding each other.José Bergamín escreveu em 1925 Los filólogos, uma comédia onde satiriza o desejo de incluir a linguagem em etiquetas e cartões, que pode levar a uma falta de compreensão e comunicação. Em outras ocasiões, o dramaturgo espanhol utilizou temas e personagens da tragédia grega, mas desta vez José Bergamín usa Os pássaros de Aristófanes como “artefato” para satirizar o Centro de Estudos Históricos, dirigido e fundado por Menéndez Pidal em 1910, e onde Pedro Salinas e Enrique Díaz Canedo colaboraram. La comedia critica os primeiros estudos em Fonética e Fonologia de Tomás Navarro Tomás e o esforço de explicar a Literatura com rótulos de Américo Castro. Na parte oposta, Bergamín propõe a visão poética e literária de autores como Valle-Inclán ou Unamuno, que não quiseram encerrar ou explicar a língua. Na obra, portanto, é parodiada a ânsia de alfabetizar e tentar explicar a língua, o que, na opinião do escritor, paradoxalmente significava o fim da cultura, como refletido em 1933 em seu ensaio La decadencia del analfabetismo. Los filólogos denotam a influência da comédia grega em várias cenas e personagens e permitem-nos contemplar no palco não só o Coro dos Pássaros, mas também o dos Macacos, Sátiros e Fichas. Mas, acima de tudo, representam um hino ao melhor da linguagem para chegar a todos e conseguir a comunicação entre as diferentes pessoas: a sua liberdade e as suas múltiplas possibilidades; não ter que se confinar a uma gaiola ou rótulo escravizador. Parece, assim, que o estudo filológico, tomado como ciência simples e esquecido do aspecto artístico, torna-se um diálogo sem sentido de macacos e pássaros; uma balbúrdia que, como na torre de Babel, impede os homens de se entenderem.UA Editora - Universidade de Aveiro2022-12-14info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i18.30977https://doi.org/10.34624/fb.v0i18.30977Forma Breve; No 18 (2022): Torre de Babel: alteridade e estereótipos; 57-69Forma Breve; n.º 18 (2022): Torre de Babel: alteridade e estereótipos; 57-692183-47091645-927Xreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPspahttps://proa.ua.pt/index.php/formabreve/article/view/30977https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/formabreve/article/view/30977/21194Direitos de Autor (c) 2022 M.ª Teresa Santa María Fernándezhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSanta María Fernández, M.ª Teresa2023-11-30T18:45:37Zoai:proa.ua.pt:article/30977Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:15:45.823763Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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description José Bergamín wrote in 1925 Los filólogos, a comedy where he satirizes the desire to enclose language in labels and cards, losing in this way and the understanding and communication. On other occasions, the Spanish playwright had used themes and characters from Greek tragedy, and this time José Bergamín uses Aristophanes’s Birds as an “artefacto” to satirize the Center for Historical Studies, directed and founded by Menéndez Pidal in 1910 and where Pedro Salinas and Enrique Díaz Canedo collaborated. The play serves to criticize the first studies on Phonetics and Phonology by Tomás Navarro Tomás and the effort to explain Literature with labels by Américo Castro. In the opposite part, Bergamín proposes the poetic and literary vision of authors such as Valle-Inclán or Unamuno, who did not want to enclose or explain scientifically the language. The comedy, therefore, parodies the eagerness to literate to explain the language, because, in the opinion of the writer, paradoxically, this literacy means the end of culture, as reflected in 1933 in his essay La decadencia del analfabetismo. Los filólogos denote the influence of Greek comedy in various scenes and characters and allows us to contemplate on stage not only the Chorus of Birds, but also that of Monkeys, Satyrs and Chips. Above all, the comedy represented a hymn to the best of language to reach everyone and achieve communication between different people: its freedom and multiple possibilities; not having to confine to a cage or enslaving label. It seems, in this way, that philological study, taken as a simple science and forgetting the artistic aspect, becomes a meaningless dialogue of monkeys and birds; a hubbub that, as in the Tower of Babel, prevents men from understanding each other.
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