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Morrissey,\u00a0<\/strong>finalmente y despu\u00e9s de a\u00f1os de espera y especulaci\u00f3n, decidi\u00f3 publicar sus vivencias en un libro que, desde su lanzamiento y como es costumbre con el prodigio de Manchester, caus\u00f3 pol\u00e9mica al ser publicado por la editorial Penguin en su secci\u00f3n de cl\u00e1sicos donde se encuentran \u00fanicamente monstruos como Joyce<\/strong> y Dickens<\/strong>. As\u00ed es como este es el primer libro contempor\u00e1neo que Penguin Classics publica como un cl\u00e1sico instant\u00e1neo.<\/em><\/p>\n M\u00e1s all\u00e1 de sus obsesi\u00f3n con Shelagh Delaney<\/strong>, James Dean<\/strong> y una infinidad de celebridades, su odio hacia la monarqu\u00eda inglesa, su repudio al Thatcherismo, la muerte de varios miembros de su familia y su amistad con James Maker <\/strong>y Linder Sterling<\/strong>, aqu\u00ed un resumen en palabras de Morrissey <\/strong>sobre lo que dispar\u00f3 su genio y que m\u00e1s tarde, cristalizar\u00eda en arte con\u00a0The Smiths.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe live in forgotten Victorian knife-plunging Manchester, where everything lies wherever it was left over one hundred years ago\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cManchester\u00b4s Victorian generation having coughed to their deaths after lifetimes of struggle\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cBirds abstain from song in post-war Manchester, where the 1960\u00b4s will not swing and where the locals are the opposite of worldly\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cManchester is the old fire wheezing its last where we all worry ourselves soulless, forbidden to be romantic”<\/em><\/p>\n \u201call action and adventure with moments of meaning happen in a place called elsewhere, and never in the sad soil of Manchester\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cwe are stucked in the wettest part of England in a society where we are not needed, yet we are washed and warm and well fed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cManchester is a barbaric place where only headless savages can survive\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cLong echoing halls of whitewashed walls, of carbolic and plimsoll and crayon blazing through the senses, demanding that all cheerful thought must now die away. This bleak mausoleum called St Wilfrid\u00b4s has the power to make you unhappy, and this is the only message it is prepared to give\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cSt. Wilfrid\u00b4s is an asylum, of sorts, for Hulme\u00b4s pitiful poor, and although it had been declared due for demolition in 1913, it grinds on, fifty years later, dragging we small children with it, plunging us into its own rooms of gloom.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThese educators educate no one, and outside of their occupations they surely lament their own allotted spot?\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThis is the Manchester school system of the 1960\u00b4s where sadness is habit-forming and where shame is cattle-prodded into kids who are in pursuit of bliss amid the unrelenting disapproval\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI approach school each day with renewed fear, over the asphalt, trading underfoot the flattened remains of people\u00b4s lives, and bigger and blacker the school edifice rises above its bludgeoned parish like a rat refusing to die\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cMy experience at St. Wilfrid\u00b4s is sealed as a secret agony\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cNow comes the hour to choose between being acceptable to others or being acceptable to one\u00b4s self, fro we must kill our true selves off in order to survive. I had no idea that life could get worse, or that schoolteachers could be more contemptuous than those of wilting St. Wilfrid\u00b4s, but the snarling stupidity at St. Mary\u00b4s is deathless, and its wearisome echo of negativity exhausts me to a permanent state of circumstantial sadness\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cEach day is Kafka-esque in its nightmare, and the school offers nothing at all expect a lifelong awareness of hate as a general truth\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n “As an educational establishment, St. Mary\u00b4s contained only the traditional values of negativity, and there would not be a single hour spent within its walls when I could feel either relaxed or untrammeled\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cWere led away to their tortured deaths, and the social landscape of Manchester warps forever with further reason to cry\u201d [Moors murderers]<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cwe are forced to accept a new truth: that woman can be just as cruel and dehumanized as a man, and that all safety is an illusion\u201d [Myra Hindley \u2013 Moor Murderer]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Morrissey \u2013 Autobiograf\u00eda: Manchester (Citas) Morrissey,\u00a0finalmente y despu\u00e9s de a\u00f1os de espera y especulaci\u00f3n, decidi\u00f3 publicar sus vivencias en un libro que, desde su lanzamiento y como es costumbre con el prodigio de Manchester, caus\u00f3 pol\u00e9mica al ser publicado por la editorial Penguin en su secci\u00f3n de cl\u00e1sicos donde se encuentran \u00fanicamente monstruos como Joyce …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[784,783,7],"tags":[52,78,83,84,90,108,113,122,128,131,139,140,153,166,169,172,174,184,196,199],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articulos","category-espanol","category-musica","tag-david-bowie","tag-iggy-pop","tag-james-dean","tag-james-maker","tag-jobriath","tag-lou-reed","tag-marianne-faithful","tag-morrissey","tag-new-york-dolls","tag-nico","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-patti-smith","tag-ramones","tag-roxy-music","tag-sandie-shaw","tag-sex-pistols","tag-shelagh-delaney","tag-t-rex","tag-the-smiths","tag-the-velvet-underground"],"yoast_head":"\n“MANCHESTER, SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR”<\/strong><\/h3>\n
LA CIUDAD: Victoriana, gris, sucia, lluviosa y oscura donde la revoluci\u00f3n industrial acab\u00f3 con las esperanzas de muchos e incit\u00f3 el intelecto de pocos.<\/strong><\/h4>\n
LOS “EDUCADORES”, LAS ESCUELAS Y UN SISTEMA EDUCATIVO INEFICIENTE: Represi\u00f3n, humillaci\u00f3n, odio y violencia que\u00a0inspir\u00f3 canciones como “The Headmaster Ritual”<\/strong><\/h4>\n
MOORS MURDERERS: Los famosos e infames asesinatos que\u00a0ocurrieron\u00a0en Manchester en los 60\u00b4s\u00a0 que paralizaron a la ciudad del noroeste ingl\u00e9s. Morrissey rendir\u00eda homenaje a las\u00a0v\u00edctimas\u00a0en una de sus primeras composiciones: “Suffer Little Children”<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Citas obtenidas de: Morrissey.\u00a0Autobiography. London: Penguin Classics, 2013<\/strong><\/h5>\n