{"id":495,"date":"2025-06-14T07:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T05:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2025-07-01T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T10:49:13","slug":"lo-perdido-borges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/lo-perdido-borges\/","title":{"rendered":"Lo Perdido (Jorge Luis Borges)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lo_Perdido_Borges.jpg\" alt=\"Lo Perdido Borges\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lo_Perdido_Borges.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Lo_Perdido_Borges-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dove sar\u00e0 la vita che non vissi<br \/>\ne che poteva essere mia, l\u2019altra,<br \/>\ndi buona sorte o spaventosa e triste,<br \/>\nche non \u00e8 stata e forse era la spada<br \/>\no lo scudo. Dove sar\u00e0 il perduto<br \/>\navo persiano o norvegese, dove<br \/>\nil destino di non finire cieco,<br \/>\nil mare, l\u2019\u00e0ncora, l\u2019oblio di essere<br \/>\nl\u2019uomo che sono? Dove la serena<br \/>\nnotte che al rude contadino dona<br \/>\nl\u2019illetterato e laborioso giorno,<br \/>\ncome vorrebbe la letteratura?<br \/>\nE penso infine a quella mia compagna<br \/>\nche mi aspettava, e che forse mi aspetta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Jorge Luis Borges<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>* * *\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Where will my life be, the one that could<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>have been but wasn&#8217;t, the happy one<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>or the one of sad horror, that other thing<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>that could be the sword or the shield<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>and wasn&#8217;t? Where will the lost<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Persian or Norwegian ancestor be,<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>where the chance to not go blind*,<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>where the anchor and the sea, where the forgetting<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>of being who I am? Where will the pure<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>night that is entrusted to the rough farmer<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>by the illiterate and laborious day,<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>according to how literature wants it, be?<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>I also think about the partner<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>who waited for me, and maybe waits for me.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"par\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 57px;\">\n<div class=\"ll-3-3\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Jorge Luis Borges<\/span><\/div>\n<p><em style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #0000ff;\">* * *\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u00bfD\u00f3nde estar\u00e1 mi vida, la que pudo <\/em><br \/>\n<em>haber sido y no fue, la venturosa <\/em><br \/>\n<em>o la de triste horror, esa otra cosa <\/em><br \/>\n<em>que pudo ser la espada o el escudo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>y que no fue? \u00bfD\u00f3nde estar\u00e1 el perdido <\/em><br \/>\n<em>antepasado persa o el noruego, <\/em><br \/>\n<em>d\u00f3nde el azar de no quedarme ciego, <\/em><br \/>\n<em>d\u00f3nde el ancla y el mar, d\u00f3nde el olvido<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>de ser quien soy? \u00bfD\u00f3nde estar\u00e1 la pura <\/em><br \/>\n<em>noche que al rudo labrador conf\u00eda <\/em><br \/>\n<em>el iletrado y laborioso d\u00eda,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>seg\u00fan lo quiere la literatura? <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Pienso tambi\u00e9n en esa compa\u00f1era <\/em><br \/>\n<em>que me esperaba, y que tal vez me espera.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jorge Luis Borges<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foto-pensieri","tag-jorge-luis-borges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83690,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/83690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberopensare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}