| Milonga de Gauna
| Milonga de Gauna
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| El dolor se le fue
| The pain is gone
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| como por artimaña
| as if by trick
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| vaya uno a saber
| let one know
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| si es así o se engaña.
| if it is so or is it deceived.
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| Su sonrisa final
| his final smile
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| vaya uno a saber
| let one know
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| lo que quiso Gauna.
| what Gauna wanted.
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| Dicen que su canción
| They say your song
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| ya estaba cantada
| was already sung
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| quién pudiera decir hoy
| who could say today
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| si sabía Gauna
| if you knew Gauna
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| que en aquel carnaval
| that in that carnival
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| cumpliría su rol.
| he would fulfill his role.
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| Misterios del alma.
| Mysteries of the soul.
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| Emilio Gauna
| Emilio Gauna
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| murió en Palermo
| died in Palermo
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| en una noche de carnaval
| on a carnival night
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| acuchillado en un mano a mano
| stabbed in a hand to hand
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| que se arrastraba de años atrás
| that he crawled from years ago
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| ¡Acuchillado en un mano a mano!
| Stabbed in a hand to hand!
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| Una duda resultó
| a doubt resulted
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| ser mucho más fuerte,
| be much stronger
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| una duda que enterró
| a doubt that he buried
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| el miedo a la muerte.
| the fear of death.
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| En su ciego puñal
| In his blind dagger
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| una duda murió
| a doubt died
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| En su cuerpo inerte.
| In his inert body.
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| El valor le llegó
| value came to him
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| cuando era debido,
| when it was due
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| el coraje que pidió
| the courage he asked for
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| y le fue concedido.
| and it was granted to him.
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| Encontró a su rival
| He found his rival
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| ni perdió ni ganó.
| he neither lost nor won.
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| Se marchó tranquilo,
| He walked away quietly
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| Emilio Gauna
| Emilio Gauna
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| murió en Palermo
| died in Palermo
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| en una noche de carnaval,
| on a carnival night,
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| acuchillado en un mano a mano
| stabbed in a hand to hand
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| que se arrastraba de años atrás.
| that crawled from years ago.
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| Acuchillado en un mano a mano.
| Stabbed in a hand to hand.
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| Emilio Gauna
| Emilio Gauna
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| murió en Palermo
| died in Palermo
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| en una noche de carnaval
| on a carnival night
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| Acuchillado en un mano a mano
| Stabbed in a hand to hand
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| que se arrastraba de años atrás.
| that crawled from years ago.
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| Sueño de sangre y silencio*
| Dream of blood and silence*
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| Basado en un personaje de Adolfo Bioy Casares en su novela El sueño de los
| Based on a character by Adolfo Bioy Casares in his novel The Dream of the
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| héroes. | heroes. |
| La anécdota de Bioy es a la vez simple y laboriosa. | Bioy's anecdote is both simple and laborious. |
| En ciertos
| in certain
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| carnavales del Buenos Aires de 1927, el joven Emilio Gauna, junto a unos
| carnivals of Buenos Aires in 1927, the young Emilio Gauna, along with some
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| amigotes del cafetín y un cierto doctor Valerga, se pierde durante tres días en
| buddies from the café and a certain doctor Valerga, gets lost for three days in
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| los carnavales. | the carnivals. |
| Amanece solo y sin recordar lo que ha sucedido, en una cancha
| He wakes up alone and without remembering what has happened, on a court
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| de fútbol abandonada por los bosques de Palermo. | abandoned soccer field in the woods of Palermo. |
| Nebulosamente sabe que medio
| He nebulously he knows that half
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| se enamoró de una máscara y poco más recuerda.
| he fell in love with a mask and remembers little else.
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| Las pistas, luego, dan a entender que el brujo Taboada torció su destino,
| The clues, then, suggest that the sorcerer Taboada twisted his destiny,
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| y más tarde se sabrá que gracias a la hija del brujo, Clara, el protagonista
| and later it will be known that thanks to the sorcerer's daughter, Clara, the protagonist
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| salvó su vida. | saved his life from him. |
| Gauna y los suyos se mueven en un mundo de peluquerías,
| Gauna and his family move in a world of hairdressers,
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| panaderías, cafés, pensiones y billares exentos de misterio, el frugal reino
| bakeries, cafes, pensions and billiards devoid of mystery, the frugal kingdom
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| de la melancolía tanguera por ciertos días idos, donde al parecer se
| of tango melancholy for certain days gone by, where apparently
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| compadreaba y se resolvían enojos a cuchillo.
| he compadre and quarrels were resolved with a knife.
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| A Gauna, que se ha casado con Clara sin sospechar que ha sido su salvadora y
| To Gauna, who has married Clara without suspecting that she has been his savior from her and
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| prospera en un taller mecánico, le ha sido dada una vida sin sobresaltos.
| thrives in a mechanic shop, he has been given a smooth life.
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| Y sin embargo, Gauna quiere resolver el misterio de su amnesia,
| And yet Gauna wants to solve the mystery of her amnesia for him,
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| algo muy difícil de lograr en un ambiente donde todos, como en cualquier
| something very difficult to achieve in an environment where everyone, as in any
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| barrio o en cualquier pensionado, están alerta a los pasos de todos.
| neighborhood or in any boarding school, they are alert to everyone's footsteps.
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| Y Bioy logra el prodigio, finalmente, de hacer desaparecer tres años más tarde
| And Bioy achieves the miracle, finally, of making it disappear three years later
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| a Gauna en unos nuevos carnavales y alcanzar, gozosamente, su final trágico.
| to Gauna in some new carnivals and reach, joyfully, his tragic end.
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| El truco, bastante notable, consiste en haber construido un escenario
| The trick, quite remarkable, is to have built a stage
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| melodramático para un protagonista que, oscuramente, busca un final heroico.
| melodramatic for a protagonist who, darkly, seeks a heroic end.
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| Es como si Gauna, a tientas, se hubiera ganado el destino de otra novela,
| It is as if Gauna, groping, had earned the fate of another novel,
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| de la novela que ensueñan quienes se quieren heroicos.
| of the novel that those who want to be heroic dream of.
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| Sin testigos, sin escena, Gauna se hará cargo de su final. | With no witnesses, no scene, Gauna will take care of his end of it. |
| Porque a diferencia
| because unlike
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| del melodrama, que vive de la gesticulación y del estrépito, el momento trágico
| of melodrama, which lives on gesticulation and noise, the tragic moment
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| llega con la dicha del silencio. | it comes with the bliss of silence. |