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The Mexican Nobel lacked a literary agent and his second wife and widow, deceased on Thursday, was heir to the literary and documentary legacy of the poet and essayist as well as his rights to # 39; author. Who will take charge of your management?
This was the concern expressed by scientists and members of the Mexican Cultural Community since the [OctavioPazFoundation disappeared in 2003. The concern is that this file may be ending in several hands or outside the country, as is the case of Carlos Fuentes, who is at Princeton University, or Gabriel García Márquez, who was sold to the University of Texas.
"I hope that the Federal Ministry of Culture in collaboration with another institution, will be able to do something so that the legacy of peace remains in Mexico," writes Mauricio Montiel Figueiras.
"You just have to think of the number of images you had from Paz with so many characters with whom you had contacts; that, beyond the thousands of documents, they are in themselves a As many pages dedicated to scrutinizing the idiosyncrasy of the Mexican, imagine the notes that should be on this and other issues, which are a very important universal legacy for Mexico, "adds the author. author, who collaborated with Marie-Jo ] in the selection of photographs for the catalog of the exhibition "In this see that", with which the Museum of the Palais des Beaux-Arts celebrated the centenary of the birth of the poet, in 2014.
By phone, the journalist Elena Poniatowska is in agreement. "It would be desirable to stay in Mexico."
The Foundation Octavio Paz was established in December 1997 – just four months before the death of the poet and thinker at the initiative of the then President Ernesto Zedillo – for the purpose of studying, preserving and disseminating the legacy of the author of The Labyrinth of Solitude . Since its disappearance, no institution maintains the vocation of this body.
According to the press, the painter refused to hand over to the foundation the documents, photographs, correspondence and other documents of her husband and held tense negotiations with the director of the institution, Guillermo Sheridan, who declined the offer in March 2001.
"It's my legacy, it's well established in his will that the file belongs to me, so I'll see later what I'll do with it," he said. an interview with the newspaper Reforma in January 2001.
But he never made it known, at least not publicly.
The same Fund of Economic Culture does not know what will happen after the death of his widow, according to Juan Carlos Rodríguez, editor of the house, consulted by this newspaper.
The writer Braulio Peralta, author of the book The poet in his country and The faces of Octavio Paz also expressed his fears about the future safeguard of the acquis.
"The most disturbing is the subject of copyright of Octavio Paz the library of Octavio Paz his archives, his letters." Mary Jose Paz is already great and I am very worried that she has not agreed that a literary agent will take everything to do with the legacy of Octavio Paz I am very concerned that the Mexican government does not have bastion or respect as moral authority to convince Marie-Jo of the need to maintain this record in Mexico and not to go away, for example in the United States, "he declared El Universal in an interview on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the poet's death last April.
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