2023-07-09 17:51:00
Although it is called Money Diary, Rosario Bléfari’s book has little to do with money. Yes, she precisely details the expenses in the grocery store and talks regarding the difficulty in buying clothes, but at the same time she poses dilemmas of daily life, those of an artist, through a clinical and velvety gaze. Bléfari left nothing to chance when she wrote this diary, which was assembled with alterations to her chronological line: we can be in a morning in 1986 and, on the same page, in an early morning in 2003.
This allows not only to acquire a precise vision of the variation in prices, of the cost of living in general in each period, and to perceive the social context, but also enables emotions: when we read regarding the upbringing of his daughter Nina, the emotional earthquakes of a young and voracious Rosario. Or a Rosario in a predictable and loving bond, when she gives an account of the process of making a song.
These are the terse words of a woman who lived in Buenos Aires, who traveled its streets on foot, by bicycle, by bus, who traveled within and outside the country, who attended hundreds of rehearsals and gave concerts, the woman who had the habit of have a coffee with milk with croissants. As the newspaper progresses, not only do we forget that the axis that gathers the writings is money, but we also learn to take affection for its numbers. Alternated with prowess, they do not exhaust. They are not an accountant’s Excel, they are the accounts of a poet.
Diary of money, Rosario Bléfari. Editorial Mansalva
It narrates the apparently flat situations of existence. She contemplates, listens, notices the detail. Thus, held by the hand as if we were children, it gives us the possibility of feeling without prejudice, without controlling the waves that may come. There we go, once morest the sand or once morest the rocks, towards the melody or towards the roar. One is not bad following reading Bléfari; You are not bad for money or for love, or for the certainty of death. He lives in a state of constant curiosity that is appreciated, for being what life quickly manages to silence.
Whether it is telling regarding visits to the doctor, paying a mortgage, his role in a movie, the cumbersome procedures he goes through to get paid in different artist associations, the complications in social works, the search for inspiration, the housework , the moments of writing in a cyber; reading the multifaceted Bléfari is knowing the life of a musician, a writer, a mother. In short, a cultural worker.
In May 2017 he wrote: “A bird is a bird, it is something feathery that flies and flies, it is a sound and a mystery. Where do they come from? Why do they sing? Children always want to catch the birds. They run them like dogs that scare pigeons in a square.
Money Diary was edited by Mansalva in the Latin American Poetry and Fiction collection. This is the second edition of it.
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