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Question 1

Su vida entera fue un busca de perfecciones; las buscó en los conceptos de juventud, de belleza, de aristocracia y de riqueza, que permiten a los hombres una mayor generosidad, un mayor desinterés y una más espontánea cortesía.

Answer 1

His [Fitzgerald’s] entire life was a search for perfection; he looked for it [perfection] in the concepts of youth, beauty, aristocracy, and wealth, which permits men a greater [degree of] generosity, a greater [degree of] disinterest, and a more spontaneous courtesy.

Question 2

Sus personajes corresponden a su experiencia personal, a las primeras ilusiones y al desengaño ultimo.

Answer 2

His [Fitzgerald’s] characters correspond to his personal experience, to the first illusions and to the last disillusion.

Question 3

En su obra múltiple sobresalen dos libros: The Great Gatsby, de 1925, la historia de un hombre que intenta en vano recobrar un amor juvenile, en el cual se trasluce la nostalgia del antiguo sueño americano de un mundo nuevo.

Answer 3

In his [Fitzgerald’s] many-faceted work two books stand out: The Great Gatsby, from 1925, the story of a man who tries in vain to recover a youthful love, which reveals the nostalgia for the old American dream of a new world.

Question 4

Daisy y Buchanan, su marido, los muy ricos, los invulnerables, permanecen unidos; Gatsby es destruido.

Answer 4

Daisy and Buchanan, her husband, the very rich, the invulnerable, remain united; Gatsby is destroyed.

Question 5

Técnicamente superior, Tender is the Night, de 1934, analiza la vida de un expatriado que regresa a América para ocultar su fracaso íntimo.

Answer 5

Technically superior, Tender Is the Night, from 1934, analyzes the life of an expatriate who returns to American to hide his intimate [inward] failure.

Question 6

Más que ningún otro escritor de su generación, Scott Fitzgerald representa los años que sucedieron a la primera guerra mundial.

Answer 6

More than any other writer of his generation, Scott Fitzgerald represents the years which followed World War I.

Question 7

Pariente lejano de Longfellow, Ezra Loomet Pound (1885) ha suscitado los juicios más contradictorios.

Answer 7

A distant relative of Longfellow, Ezra Loomet Pound (1885 –) has raised the most contradictory judgments.

Question 8

Para Elliot, que lo ha llamado el mejor artífice – il miglior fabbro – es un maestro; para Robert Graves, un simulador.

Answer 8

For Eliot, who has called him the best craftsman – il miglior fabbro – he [Pound] is a master; for Robert Graves, a pretender.

Question 9

Nació en Haineiyen, en el estado de Idaho.

Answer 9

He [Pound] was born in Hailey, in the state of Idaho.

Question 10

Se graduó en la Universidad de Pennsylvania, donde fue profesor.

Answer 10

He [Pound] graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor.

Question 11

En 1908 publicó en Venecia su primer libro, A Lume Spento.

Answer 11

In 1908 he [Pound] published in Venice his first book, A Lume Spento.

Question 12

Desde 1908 hasta 1920 vivió en Londres.

Answer 12

From 1908 until 1920 he [Pound] lived in London.

Question 13

Solía presentarse en los círculos literarios vestido de cowboy, para acentuar su condición de norteamericano, y armado de una fusta que hacía restallar cada vez que lanzaba un epigrama contra Milton.

Answer 13

He [Pound] usually presented himself in literary circles dressed like a cowboy, in order to accentuate his American condition [status], and [he was also] armed with a riding crop that he cracked every time that he launched [got off] an epigram against Milton.

Question 14

Fue discípulo del filósofo Hulme, con el cual inauguró el imagismo, destinado a purificar la poesía de todo lo sentimental y retórico.

Answer 14

He [Pound] was a discipline of the philosopher Hulme, with whom he founded imagism, destined [intended] to purify poetry of everything sentimental and rhetorical.

Question 15

En 1928 le fue otorgado el premio Dial por su contribución a las letras norteamericanas.

Answer 15

In 1928 he [Pound] was granted [awarded] the Dial Prize for his contribution to American letters.

Question 16

Vivió en Rapallo, Italia, desde 1924, donde se convirtió al fascism y contribuyó por medio de conferencias radials a la propaganda de esa doctrina.

Answer 16

He [Pound] lived in Rapallo, Italy, since 1924, where he was converted to fascism and contributed by means of [through] radio lectures to the propaganda of that doctrine.

Question 17

Cuando los Estados Unidos entraron en la guerra, persistió en dicha actividad.

Answer 17

When the United States entered the war, he [Pound] persisted in that activity.

Question 18

En 1946 fue llevado a su patria y juzgado como traidor.

Answer 18

In 1946 he [Pound] was taken to his homeland and judged as a traitor.

Question 19

El tribunal lo absolvió por irresponsable y fue recluido durante años en un hospicio para enfermos mentales.

Answer 19

The tribunal absolved him [Pound] of irresponsibility and he was secluded [shut up] for years in a hospital for mental patients.

Question 20

Hay quienes han visto en ese dictamen una estratagema para salvarlo; otros, un diagnóstico acertado.

Answer 20

There are those that have seen in that decision a stratagem to save him [Pound]; others, an accurate diagnosis.

Question 21

Pese a todo ello, recibió en 1949 el premio Bollinger por sus Pisan Cantos, redactados mientras estaba encarcelado en Italia por el ejército norteamericano.

Answer 21

Despite all this, he [Pound] received in 1949 the Bollingen Prize for his Pisan Cantos, written while he was incarcerated in Italy by the American army.

Question 22

Extrañamente, Pound creía que la democracia, tal como Jefferson son la entendió, no es incompatible con el fascism.

Answer 22

Strangely, Pound believed that democracy, such as Jefferson understood it, is not incompatible with fascism.