¡Hola, lectores! Hoy les traigo una nueva entrada para la sección de Reflexiones donde voy a hablar sobre una de las preguntas más comunes y odiadas por todo lector:
¿Cómo te enamorás de un personaje de un libro si no podés verlo?
Si sos una lectora ya debes estar acostumbrada a este tipo de preguntas: ¿Cómo te gusta tanto un personaje de un libro si no existe? ¿Cómo podés decir que un personaje es "atractivo" si no podés verlo? Y, ¿Cómo te enamorás de un personaje si no podés verlo?
Así que hoy voy a responder estas tres preguntas para todos aquellos interesados en saber la respuesta que tengo para darles, ya sean lectores o no.
¿No existe? ¿No es real? ¿En serio?
¿Real para quién? ¿No existe para quién?
Está es una típica pregunta mundana de los no-lectores. ¡Pues claro que sabemos que no son reales físicamente! (Al menos yo lo sé, lo admito dolorosamente... No sé qué tan cuerdos estén ustedes...) Pero la palabra existir no se refiere solamente a a un estado físico.
Así que dejemos esto en claro: el personaje existe. Tal vez no exista para algunos, para aquellos que no leen, pero existe para mí. Existe. Tal vez sólo sea dentro de páginas impresas o en mi corazón, pero existe. Existe porque lo vi en el libro, existe porque las palabras que usó la autora lo hacen tan humano y real como cualquier otra persona, existe porque lo sentí, existe porque tiene un pasado y una historia.
¡Es más! Cualquier lector puede coincidir con esto: "¿Quién no ha sentido que el personaje en un libro impreso es más real que la persona sentada en frente tuyo?"
Así que dejemos en claro que el personaje existe. No existe científicamente o de cualquier forma muggle que aquellos que no leen piensen. Existe... de una forma diferente. Existe... poéticamente. Los personajes no están hechos de células, tal vez ese sea el punto; están hechos de palabras.
Esta pregunta me irrita bastante, porque adoro fangirlear con los personajes de los libros y decir que son hermosos y todo eso... Y los mundanos llegan con sus ignorancias... Como esa pregunta.
Para empezar, existen esas cosas llamadas descripciones, donde el autor nos da una imagen del personaje. Color de pelo, altura, ojos, etc. También llegamos a ver cómo es un personaje por como lo ven los demás.
Así que sí nosotros los lectores queremos decir que un personaje es "atractivo", no hay nada que nos lo impida. Excepto que el escritor afirme lo contrario, somos completamente libres de imaginar al personaje como queramos. ¡Es un libro! ¡Ficción, dentro de todo! Tenemos el derecho a imaginar a los personajes como queramos porque existen de la forma que nosotros queramos que existan.
Y la pregunta que más me interesa responder:
¿Qué importa si no puedo verlo? ¿Es acaso eso necesario para enamorarme de él? Esto es lo maravilloso de los libros: te describen a los personajes físicamente, aunque tú decides como imaginarlos en tu cabeza, tu te los imaginas diferentes que los demás, pero lo que un libro en realidad plantea es el alma de un personaje. El personaje de un libro existe porque está creado de palabras, de sus pensamientos y de sus acciones, de lo que son por dentro. Podemos imaginarlos atractivos o no, pero lo que realmente nos hace enamorarnos de ellos es su alma. Vemos sus acciones, lo que los motiva, sus sacrificios, sus pensamientos y sentimientos, vemos todo lo que contienen en el corazón; vemos lo que un ser humano es bajo el velo de su aspecto físico. Nos enamoramos de la personalidad y palabras de un personaje, de como habla, se mueve y actúa. Nos enamoramos de las partes más reales de ellos. Los conocemos en las primeras páginas y vemos su evolución, vemos lo que los hace humanos.
Nos enamoramos de un personaje... porque muestran realmente lo que son. Podrán disimularlo, pero no esconderlo de los ojos de un lector.
~Writer♥.
KEEP READING.........
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FALLING IN LOVE WITH A CHARACTER
A mundane question: How do you fall in love with a character if you can't see him?
If you're a reader, you're probably used to these kind of questions: How can you like a character of a book so much if it doesn't exist? How can you say a character is "handsome" or "good-looking" if you can't see him? ¿How do you fall in love with a character if you can't see him?
So today I'm going to answer this question for all of you who are interested in knowing the answer, both readers or not.
HOW CAN YOU LIKE A CHARACTER so much IF IT DOESN'T EXIST?
Really? It doesn't exist?
This is a typical mundane question. Of course we know the character is not physically real! (At least I know it... I don't know how sane the rest of you are, but I can painfully admit this.) But the word exist doesn't just mean tu a physical state.
So let's leave this clear: the character does exist. Maybe it doesn't to some people, for those who don't read, but it does for me. Maybe it just exists within printed pages or in my heart, but it exists, when you come to it. It exists because he's someone, because the words the author used makes it as human as anyone else.
In fact! Any reader could agree with this: "Who hasn't felt that the character in the printed page is more real than the person in front of you?"
So let's leave it clear when we say the character exists. It doesn't exist scientifically. But it exists.... in a different way... in a poetical way. Characters aren't made of cells, maybe that's the thing.... they're made of words. So they exist in syllables, in letters and spaces...
HOW CAN YOU SAY A CHARACTER IS "HANDSOME" OR "GOOD-LOOKING" IF YOU CAN'T SEE HIM?
First of all, there are these things called descriptions, where the author gives us the physical idea of the character. Hair, eyes, heigh, etc. We also get to know a character for the way other characters in the story see him.
So if we readers want to say a character is handsome, there's nothing holding us back. Except the author says the opposite thing, of course. But it's a book! Fiction, when we come to it. As readers we've got the right to imagine characters as we want to because they exist in the way we want them to.
HOW CAN YOU fall in love with a character is you can't see him?
What does it matter? Is it really necessary to see the character in order to love him? This is the thing about books, they just give you the slight idea of how the character looks like and the rest is up to you, but what the book really pictures is the soul of the character. We can imagine them handsome or not, but we can see their soul. We see their actions, their sorrows, their joys, their sacrifices, what moves them, their thoughts, their feelings... We see what they've got inside, we see their hearts. We fall for their personality and their words... for the way they speak, move and act. We fall for the parts of them that are real. We see what makes them human.
We fall in love with a character... because they show what they really are. What people are. They can disguise it, but they can't hide it from the eyes of a reader.
FALLING IN LOVE WITH A CHARACTER
A mundane question: How do you fall in love with a character if you can't see him?
If you're a reader, you're probably used to these kind of questions: How can you like a character of a book so much if it doesn't exist? How can you say a character is "handsome" or "good-looking" if you can't see him? ¿How do you fall in love with a character if you can't see him?
So today I'm going to answer this question for all of you who are interested in knowing the answer, both readers or not.
HOW CAN YOU LIKE A CHARACTER so much IF IT DOESN'T EXIST?
Really? It doesn't exist?
This is a typical mundane question. Of course we know the character is not physically real! (At least I know it... I don't know how sane the rest of you are, but I can painfully admit this.) But the word exist doesn't just mean tu a physical state.
So let's leave this clear: the character does exist. Maybe it doesn't to some people, for those who don't read, but it does for me. Maybe it just exists within printed pages or in my heart, but it exists, when you come to it. It exists because he's someone, because the words the author used makes it as human as anyone else.
In fact! Any reader could agree with this: "Who hasn't felt that the character in the printed page is more real than the person in front of you?"
So let's leave it clear when we say the character exists. It doesn't exist scientifically. But it exists.... in a different way... in a poetical way. Characters aren't made of cells, maybe that's the thing.... they're made of words. So they exist in syllables, in letters and spaces...
HOW CAN YOU SAY A CHARACTER IS "HANDSOME" OR "GOOD-LOOKING" IF YOU CAN'T SEE HIM?
First of all, there are these things called descriptions, where the author gives us the physical idea of the character. Hair, eyes, heigh, etc. We also get to know a character for the way other characters in the story see him.
So if we readers want to say a character is handsome, there's nothing holding us back. Except the author says the opposite thing, of course. But it's a book! Fiction, when we come to it. As readers we've got the right to imagine characters as we want to because they exist in the way we want them to.
HOW CAN YOU fall in love with a character is you can't see him?
What does it matter? Is it really necessary to see the character in order to love him? This is the thing about books, they just give you the slight idea of how the character looks like and the rest is up to you, but what the book really pictures is the soul of the character. We can imagine them handsome or not, but we can see their soul. We see their actions, their sorrows, their joys, their sacrifices, what moves them, their thoughts, their feelings... We see what they've got inside, we see their hearts. We fall for their personality and their words... for the way they speak, move and act. We fall for the parts of them that are real. We see what makes them human.
We fall in love with a character... because they show what they really are. What people are. They can disguise it, but they can't hide it from the eyes of a reader.
Que linda reflexión y que cierta!
ResponderEliminarEs lo que pienso cada vez que me enamoro totalmente de un personaje, con la consiguiente crisis y depresión de saber que no es real jajaja. Pero mientras leo, lo es y el enamoramiento también.
beso, nos leemos ;)