Chapter 10 deadly life (3)

Zenovia met Juan Ramon in 1912.He fell in love with her from the first moment, but she avoided his stubborn pursuit for two years: she didn't want to marry a Spaniard (thought they were machismo), had many plans for her future, She thought Juan Ramon a queer and overly sad man.Juan Ramon's voluminous love letters of this period are a catalog of emotional stratagems: he tries to awaken in Zenovia that renewing aspiration--I'm here to save this man--a trait shared by all women, even Promise her that she will trust God if she loves him. But it was literature that ultimately made Zenovia compromise.Zenovia found similarities between "Ash and Me" and the work of the Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore, and she translated a book by the Bengali author and showed it to Juan Ramon.He grasped at the straw: Juan Ramon revised the Spanish translation for her, signed it for publication, and insisted that the two collaborate on more things (they ended up translating twenty books) .In conclusion, Juan Ramon offered Zenovia a creative collaboration of literary fellows, showing her the prospect of working together: "All the translations of the beautiful things we translate will be signed by you. Then you have to do something A thing of originality, eh? I hope to combine the two of us in our book in the future," said Juan Ramon in a letter of his conquest of Zenovia.Zenovia, who had literary ambitions, finally let go of her resistance and married him... After that, she never wrote anything about herself, except for her extremely restrained diary.Maybe she was thinking about all of this (disillusioned, unlived life) as she recorded this touching line in her Cuban diary: "When we returned, the clouds had parted northeast, and the sunset at dusk ...makes the world seem new...suddenly all childhood dreams become reality, and we strongly hope that all these uncredulous hours are a squandering pleasure."

bibliography ○Zenovia Campluvi: "Diary 1937-1939", Arianza III Press. ○ "Zenovia Campluvi: Living with Juan Ramon", Fausto Press. ○ "Humanity" No. 7, Juan Ramon special feature. ○Humanity Issue 11 Supplement, Selected Works by Juan Ramon. ○Naro Calderon: "Between Exile and the Mainland" (about literary exile), "Humanity" Publishing House.