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Ezra Pound & the Angel

Miguel Serrano

Miguel Serrano with a picture of Ezra Pound

1,136 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

From the end of the 1930s to the mid-1940s and beyond, I was greatly interested in the personality of the American poet Ezra Pound. I saw a lot of myself reflected in him. Indeed, during the Second World War he was opposed to the government of his country and embraced the cause of Italy and Germany. Read more …

Published: October 31, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Ezra Pound, Miguel Serrano, North American New Right, on Pound, originals, poetry, translations | Comments closed

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To Re-Read Hesse

Miguel Serrano

Hermann Hesse, 1877–1962

474 words

Translated by Alex Kurtagic

Unfortunately, the deep writer and poet Hermann Hesse was falsified and vulgarized by a world in decline. He needs to be re-read today by the same eyes that were once shaken by his mystery.

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Published: March 8, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged articles, Buddhism, C. G. Jung, Demian, Hermann Hesse, literature, Miguel Serrano, North American New Right, reprints, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, The Glass Bead Game, Traditionalism, translations | Comments closed

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The Falsification of Hermann Hesse

Miguel Serrano

Miguel Serrano (left) with Hermann Hesse

503 words

Translated by Alex Kurtagic

Translator’s Note:

The following article appeared in the Chilean newspaper, El Mercurio, on 10 March 2002. Serrano had written about a similar topic some thirty years earlier in an article for La Prensa entitled, “La Transformación de Hermann Hesse” (“The Transformation of Hermann Hesse”), which was translated into English and published under the title “Hermann Hesse in America.”

The Death of Ezra Pound

Miguel Serrano

Ezra Pound, drawn by Wyndham Lewis

1,906 words

Translated by Alex Kurtagic

Ezra Pound died in Venice on 2[1]November 1972, less than five years after our interview. I was in Spain, traversing that hard and ancient land. I had visited Ronda, down South, the city over the abyss, where Rilke once lived for a time. I had been reading Pound’s letters in the small museum that Spaniards have opened in the hotel where he once lived—his love letters to Lou Salomé, also lover and muse to Nietzsche.

Last Encounter with Carl Jung

Miguel Serrano

Carl Gustav Jung, 1875–1961

1,499 words

Translated by Alex Kurtagic

Translator’s Note:

This is a translation of the article by Serrano published by the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio in 1961, following Carl Jung’s death.

It’s six in the morning, 8 June. I open the doors to my room in New Delhi—doors which open to a small white terrace, already fulgurating with sunlight. Read more …

Published: October 28, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Tagged Alex Kurtagic, articles, C. G. Jung, Miguel Serrano, North American New Right, reprints, translations | Comments closed

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Hitler & Jung

Miguel Serrano

947 words

Translated by Alex Kurtagic

C. G. Jung Speaking, by Professor William McGuire, has recently been translated into Spanish and published by Trotta, with the title Encuentros con Jung. Reproduced there is Jung’s account of the time he saw Hitler and Mussolini, together, addressing a mass audience.