{"id":2331,"date":"2026-08-04T08:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilia.uartes.edu.ec\/blog-f-ilia\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2026-08-04T08:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:33:55","slug":"de-un-traidor-con-el-corazon-blando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ilia.uartes.edu.ec\/blog-f-ilia\/2026\/08\/04\/de-un-traidor-con-el-corazon-blando\/","title":{"rendered":"De un traidor con el coraz\u00f3n blando"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Por Pablo Carrillo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Escuch\u00e9 el poema de la voz del actor brit\u00e1nico Michael Caine, que, de paso, es uno de mis actores favoritos. Caine lee el poema sentado en la banca de un parque. Al escucharlo en el idioma original, el poema me deslumbr\u00f3. No lo conoc\u00eda. Inmediatamente lo busqu\u00e9 en la web. Lo le\u00ed y me sent\u00ed conmovido. Pas\u00e9 una ma\u00f1ana entera con el sabor del poema en m\u00ed. Los versos regresaban a mi mente para mostrarme una fragilidad vital y, al mismo tiempo, una profundidad espiritual que el viejo Kipling proyectaba en dicha composici\u00f3n. Esa misma maestr\u00eda ya la hab\u00eda saboreado cuando le\u00ed por primera vez <em>El cuento m\u00e1s hermoso del mundo<\/em>, en una de aquellas ediciones que recopilan obras recomendadas por autores importantes. En ese caso, el cuento de Kipling era parte de una lista que Borges nombr\u00f3 como relatos insignes de la literatura universal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"IF, Rudyard Kipling&amp;apos;s poem, recited by Sir Michael Caine\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EEFMVIfl2UY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aquel d\u00eda, mis labores como bibliotecario se paralizaron. Cuando trabajas en una biblioteca, hay momentos en los que la inmensidad de la vida se hace m\u00e1s latente. Por supuesto, este estado de asombro, duda y contemplaci\u00f3n se genera a partir de la lectura de una obra. El tiempo se desliza hacia una especie de imposibilidad. Se crea una burbuja de pensamiento. En ese estado es dif\u00edcil regresar a lo cotidiano. Me sent\u00ed urgido. Busqu\u00e9 la traducci\u00f3n del poema al espa\u00f1ol y todas las que encontr\u00e9 se me antojaban insuficientes. Decid\u00ed, con m\u00e1s ingenuidad que deber, que era necesario hacerle justicia al poema y que podr\u00eda hacer una buena traducci\u00f3n. Lo cual, ahora lo s\u00e9, fue un desvar\u00edo de mi arrogancia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La voz po\u00e9tica en la composici\u00f3n original simula a un padre que aconseja a su hijo. Soy padre de una ni\u00f1a juguetona. Una de las cosas que el poema me hizo sentir fue envidia, de la mala. Me hubiese encantado ser el escritor de dicho poema, pero ante la realidad, me queda la consolaci\u00f3n de la traducci\u00f3n. En ella alter\u00e9 el g\u00e9nero del poema original y lo cambi\u00e9 por el femenino. Me tom\u00e9 otras licencias que el lector notar\u00e1. No pienso que haya hecho una mejor traducci\u00f3n que las anteriores. Hay una gran p\u00e9rdida de la po\u00e9tica del idioma original al espa\u00f1ol. Toda traducci\u00f3n, de alguna forma, ser\u00e1 insuficiente. La magia del ingl\u00e9s en este poema es apabullante. En estas condiciones, debo declarar alg\u00fan tipo de fracaso. Aun as\u00ed, espero que disfruten de este ejercicio de creaci\u00f3n y destrucci\u00f3n de sentidos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>IF<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Rudyard Kipling<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can keep your head when all about you&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But make allowance for their doubting too;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Or being lied about, don\u2019t deal in lies,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or being hated, don\u2019t give way to hating,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And yet don\u2019t look too good, nor talk too wise:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can dream\u2014and not make dreams your master;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you can think\u2014and not make thoughts your aim;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And treat those two impostors just the same;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can bear to hear the truth you\u2019ve spoken<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And stoop and build \u2019em up with worn-out tools:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can make one heap of all your winnings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And lose, and start again at your beginnings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And never breathe a word about your loss;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To serve your turn long after they are gone,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so hold on when there is nothing in you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Except the Will which says to them: \u2018Hold on!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Or walk with Kings\u2014nor lose the common touch,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If all men count with you, but none too much;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can fill the unforgiving minute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With sixty seconds\u2019 worth of distance run,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yours is the Earth and everything that\u2019s in it,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And\u2014which is more\u2014you\u2019ll be a Man, my son!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Si acaso<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interpretaci\u00f3n y traducci\u00f3n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pablo Carrillo Hern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Si acaso puedes conservar tu entereza&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">cuando todos a tu alrededor la est\u00e1n perdiendo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">y te culpan por su naufragio;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">si acaso puedes confiar en ti misma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">cuando todos duden,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">y, sin embargo, considerar su duda gentilmente;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">si acaso puedes esperar largo tiempo por una cita infructuosa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">y no sentirte desesperada por el silencio de la espera,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">o ser enga\u00f1ada y no retribuir enga\u00f1os a otros seres humanos,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">o ser odiada, sin odiar a nadie,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">y aun as\u00ed no considerarte demasiado buena o demasiado sabia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Si puedes so\u00f1ar y no permitir que los sue\u00f1os devoren tu vigilia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">si puedes reflexionar y no hacer de la reflexi\u00f3n tu prop\u00f3sito<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">si puedes bailar sensualmente con el triunfo y el desastre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">y acariciar a esos dos impostores como a uno mismo,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;si puedes escuchar la verdad que tus labios erigieron<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">tergiversada por insensatos que buscan controlar e impresionar a tontos;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">o contemplar aquello por lo que decidiste jugarte la vida, quebrado,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">y tomar del suelo los pedazos, y reconstruirlos con herramientas inadecuadas;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Si puedes hacer un mont\u00f3n de todos tus logros<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">y apostarlos a una mano de piedra, papel o tijera,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">y perder, y empezar desde el inicio<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">y nunca pronunciar palabra alguna acerca de tus p\u00e9rdidas;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;si puedes gobernar a tu coraz\u00f3n, a tu temple, a tu entereza,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">y a\u00fan consigues que sirvan a tus prop\u00f3sitos,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">incluso mucho despu\u00e9s de que se hayan ido,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">y resistes cuando no hay cosa alguna en tu interior,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">excepto la voluntad grit\u00e1ndoles desde el desierto: \u00a1Somos Hermanos!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Si puedes conversar con multitudes y mantenerte virtuosa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">o caminar con reyes sin abandonar la posibilidad de re\u00edr fraternalmente<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p 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