Translation for "disembodiments" to spanish
Disembodiments
noun
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Translation examples
He hovered, but not as lightly as before, on the margins between his body and his fatal nostalgia for disembodiment.
Flotaba, pero no tan ligero como antes, por los márgenes entre su cuerpo y su fatídica nostalgia de la incorporeidad.
My mother’s writing took on the strange, disembodied aspect of an old manuscript or a work of art in a museum, when the artist’s life seems so remote it’s hard to imagine that person holding the brush in a distant past.
La letra de mi madre adquirió una incorporeidad extraña, de manuscrito antiguo, como la pintura de un maestro vista en un museo, el tiempo del autor tan lejano al del objeto que lo sobrevive que es difícil imaginar su mano empuñando el pincel.
The African novel is thus, I would claim, in its very being, and before the first word is written, a critique of the Western novel, which has gone so far down the road of disembodiment – think of Henry James, think of Marcel Proust – that the appropriate way and indeed the only way in which to absorb it is in silence and in solitude.
La novela africana es por tanto, afirmaría yo, en su mismo ser, y antes de que se escriba la primera palabra, una crítica de la novela occidental, que ha ido tan lejos por el camino de la incorporeidad (piensen en Henry James, en Marcel Proust) que la forma adecuada y ciertamente la única forma en que se la puede absorber es en silencio y en soledad.
They often stayed up all night, sitting either side of the horizontal mirror Pierre used as a table, stripped to the waist to save themselves the trouble of rolling their sleeves up and down, shooting up every quarter of an hour and, as they poured with chemical-smelling sweat, talking about their favourite subjects: how to achieve perfect disembodiment;
A menudo habían pasado la noche en vela, sentado cada uno a un lado del espejo horizontal que Pierre utilizaba como mesa, desnudos de cintura para arriba para ahorrarse tener que remangarse, chutándose cada cuarto de hora y, mientras sudaban mares de olor químico, charlando de sus temas favoritos: cómo alcanzar la incorporeidad perfecta;
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