In the time of weapons and tears, poetry. From Ukraine comes this edition of Cosmopoética Lyudmyla Diachenko (kyiv, 1988) as an author widely read in her country and having an impact abroad. Not only is it the first time Cosmopoetics and to Cordoba, but also the first visit to Spain, although it did not lack cultural coordinates of Spain.
“I admire Federico García Lorca a lot and I know he was here, in Córdoba,” he revealed this Friday before his participation in the afternoon session of the poetry festival.
He told how his parents advised him to leave Ukraine when the Russian invasion began, but she decided to stay at home, on her land. I didn’t want to be anywhere else. The impact of war It’s hard to describe and has nothing to do with politics: “We can’t put into words what we feel.”
Time will perhaps allow us to get used to the tragedy, “but it is difficult to explain this situation.” He did not lack experience, because his father, in the Soviet army at the time, had participated in the war in Afghanistan, but the experience In the first person it’s different, although I thought I’d heard a lot about it already. In fact, during the first eight or so months of the war, he was unable to sit down with a newspaper. “I found myself like empty and I had no energy that I could share with others,” he said.
Pain
The question that has been asked since then is why humanity continues to bleed to death in armed conflicts, and does so. Because he warns: “I try to prevent the war and its suffering from having too much influence.” Your work doesn’t have to be about making the world bigger. suffering of these years, and what’s more, they are not even over. You need to treat it first and ruminate on itand it will take time. This also happened to a friend who is at the front and who has not yet been able to write down anything of what he experiences.
Because for Liudmyla Diachenko, aesthetic commitment and the search for beauty are essential. “It’s something that affects people, but the reality of war is something else, and when you see a piece of meat hanging from a tree or lying in the street, it’s very different,” he said. -he summarized this Friday.
The conclusion is that culture can do nothing to stop war, because it is over with wordsor with paintbrushes, or with music, which can do nothing against weapons. He gave an example: “At one point, Russian soldiers entered the houses and stole the money, the clothes, the furniture, but they left the books and paintings there.” In other words, they didn’t value them.
“In the first eight or nine months, I couldn’t even write anything”
And there is no shortage of experiences, like when some missiles They hit a neighbor’s house, very close to his home. “In war, you need weapons and in art, you need talent. Culture and war are therefore two very different worlds,” he stressed, speaking of the role of letters.
Also when a university professor, a friend of his, died at the front and it was a hard blow. “One of the final pieces of advice is that I just lived“, he recalled. Art, what she writes, is for her and she didn’t want to lose this important thing.
Before the reading with Luna Miguel, Liudmyla Diachenko had a meeting with studentsand talked about a poem that spoke of “spiritual home, that place where you can be in your own mind and isolate yourself.”
