Dic 22 2010 "The literary shores of the Mississippi"

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  The Mississippi is a river that goes a long way. Uninformed people say that America has no history, as if history were an issue related to old age and time. Instead, I see history in relation to the intensity of life.

The Mississippi is a river that goes a long way. Uninformed people say that America has no history, as if history were an issue related to old age and time. Instead, I see history in relation to the intensity of life. Here's an example: What is the history of Switzerland? It will be very extensive if one has for centuries and is full of surly aristocrat, selfish giants, but no one is excited over, I know. Who is going to excite a country dominated by bankers, whose great invention is the cuckoo clock? Instead, United States, as it were a country almost newborn, presents a daunting history, the most intense in almost all historical vicissitudes of our day. Add, if not, events: discovery, colonization, Independence War, Civil War, West Was Won, industrialization; and Indians, gangsters, gunmen, the struggle for civil rights, Vietnam War New York ..., Las Vegas, San Francisco ... what I! Compare the reader with the cuckoo clock. Contemporary world history in the starring role in this young country of America.

A few months ago, I went and took a good stretch of the Mississippi River, between the town of Hannibal, north of the city of San Luis, and New Orleans, at its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. Hannibal is the town where I was born and spent his childhood and early youth, the writer Mark Twain, whose baptismal name was Samuel Clemens. And the people, that in fiction called St. Petersburg, is the scene of his most famous novels: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn".

The house where Twain was born is a museum that celebrates his memory and there is a restaurant called as he and another named Tom Sawyer

Hannibal today is almost a theme park dedicated to the writer. Not only are two statutes in the town own, but another on the main street representing Huck and Tom, shoulder to shoulder, leaving in search of adventure. The house where Twain was born is a museum that celebrates his memory and there is a restaurant called as he and another named Tom Sawyer. The writer, it was a great comedian, it would crack up laughing when he saw his picture on top of a hamburger and character offering hot dogs.

Downstream reaches each imaginary Yoknapatawpha County, actually called Lafayette, and that is the territory on which almost all the work cements novelistic William Faulkner. The writer, Born in the town of Oxford, Mississippi River near, spent most of his life in his village and, naturally, museum is also home. And Oxford have been more discreet than in Hannibal and no burger is called Faulkner.

And finally, below, en New Orleans, near the mouth of the river, Tennesse Williams placed some of his dramas, including the memorable "A Streetcar Named Desire. Many of those who say the United States has no history, usually added to either culture. And I wonder: What river in Switzerland, if not Europe- can claim to have seen it grow on its shores so many and so great literature?