Los "Penguin Popular Classics" son, ó eran, unos libritos tipo pocket, marroncitos, de tapa oscura y letra diminuta que generalemente me daban para leer en las clases de ingles. Creo haber leido varias docenas de ellos, mayormente por obligacion y no por puro placer. Muy a pesar de eso, no puedo sino festejar el hecho de haberlos leido. Por que?, bueno resulta que hoy, 15 años despues de haber leido los clasicos de Oscar Wilde, Emily Bronte, William Golding, Robert Louis Stevenson, Agatha Christie y George Orwell, me encuentro con miles de referencias a estos libros, que si no fuera por el hecho de haberlos leido, quedarian en el aire sin haber cumplido su objetivo.
Ejemplos hay miles pero me voy a referir a los que, en particular a mi, me resultaron divertidos. El primero fue un tema de Angra, una banda de heavy metal brasilera que en su disco "Reaching Horizons" hacia un cover de un tema de Kate Bush. El tema era "Wuthering Heights" y aunque lei el libro bajo ese titulo no pense que tuviera relacion ya que para mi el libro siempre fue "Cumbres borrascosas", hasta que lei la letra del tema que dice:
Heathcliff
It's me, Cathy
Come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
It's me, Cathy
Come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
Mas claro imposible. Ahi me acorde que a Heatcliff, que era un flor de hijo de puta, se le aparecia el fantasma de Catherine por la ventana. Revelacion numero 1, los de Angra y Kate Bush tambien habian leido "Cumbres Borrascosas".
Despues de la revelacion nro 1 vinieron miles mas, como el capitulo de los Simpsons donde Bart y el resto de sus compañeros de colegio quedan atrapados en una isla. Si no hubiera leido "Lord of the flies" no me hubiera causado tanta gracia el juicio a Milhouse y la referencia a "la bestia".
Los temas de Iron Maiden con referencias a Lovecraft, Golding y otros, la pelicula basada en el comic "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", con Nemo, Mina Hacker y Dorian Gray!!.
Menos mal que lei el libro...
Los que recuerdo: "Wuthering Heigths", "Animal Farm", "Lord of the flies", "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "Frankenstein", "Dracula", "The Seven Dials Mystery (El misterio de las 7 esferas)", "A Murder is Announced", "And Then There Were None (also known as Ten Little Indians and originally as Ten Little Niggers", "Death on the Nile".
Angra - Reaching Horizons (1992)
Wuthering Heights
[Bonus Track][Kate Bush Cover]
Wuthering Heights
[Bonus Track][Kate Bush Cover]
Out on the winding, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in the green
You had a temper, like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me?
When I needed to possess you
I hated you, I loved you too...
Bad dreams in the night,
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering, wuthering heights
Heathcliff
It's me, Cathy
Come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
Iron Maiden - "The X-Factor" (1995)
Lord Of The Flies
[Steve Harris and Janick Gers]
I don't care for this world anymore
I just want to live my own fantasy
Faith has brought me to these shores
What was meant to be is now happening
I've found that I like this living in danger
Living on the edge it feels... it makes me feel as one
Who cares now what's right or wrong it's reality
Killing so we survive wherever we may roam
Wherever we may hide we've got to get away
I don't want existence to end
We must prepare ourselves for the elements
I just want to feel like we're strong
We don't need a code of morality
I like all the mixed emotion and anger
It brings out the animal the power you can feel
And feeling so high on this much adrenalin
Excited but scary to beleive what we've become
Saints and sinners
Something within us
We are lord of the flies
Saints and sinners
Something willing us
To be lord of the flies
We'd roll and fall in the green
You had a temper, like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me?
When I needed to possess you
I hated you, I loved you too...
Bad dreams in the night,
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering, wuthering heights
Heathcliff
It's me, Cathy
Come home, I'm so cold
Let me in your window
Iron Maiden - "The X-Factor" (1995)
Lord Of The Flies
[Steve Harris and Janick Gers]
I don't care for this world anymore
I just want to live my own fantasy
Faith has brought me to these shores
What was meant to be is now happening
I've found that I like this living in danger
Living on the edge it feels... it makes me feel as one
Who cares now what's right or wrong it's reality
Killing so we survive wherever we may roam
Wherever we may hide we've got to get away
I don't want existence to end
We must prepare ourselves for the elements
I just want to feel like we're strong
We don't need a code of morality
I like all the mixed emotion and anger
It brings out the animal the power you can feel
And feeling so high on this much adrenalin
Excited but scary to beleive what we've become
Saints and sinners
Something within us
We are lord of the flies
Saints and sinners
Something willing us
To be lord of the flies
Recursos:
El señor de las moscas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies_%28song%29
http://www.thesimpsons.com/episode_guide/0914.htm
Agatha Christie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie
Cumbres Borrascosas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights
Homer: (to Marge) Maybe I could wuther your heights.
Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Bronte that was written in 1847. Homer doesn't seem like the type to read classic novels, but there have been several movie versions of Wuthering Heights, which is probably where his reference comes from.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:
http://www.foxhome.com/lxg/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen_%28film%29
El señor de las moscas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies_%28song%29
http://www.thesimpsons.com/episode_guide/0914.htm
Agatha Christie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie
Cumbres Borrascosas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights
Homer: (to Marge) Maybe I could wuther your heights.
Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Bronte that was written in 1847. Homer doesn't seem like the type to read classic novels, but there have been several movie versions of Wuthering Heights, which is probably where his reference comes from.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:
http://www.foxhome.com/lxg/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen_%28film%29
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