02/14/2020 - 19:11
- Clarín.com
- Opinion
Long before winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yasunari Kawabata made a living as a journalist. In 1938, while the reality of the War penetrated everyday life and Japanese society was in a transition in favor of the values of westernization and democratization, the writer was hired by a newspaper to cover the national Go championship, a Old board game similar to chess. Kawabata wrote 64 notes as "correspondent from the battlefield" (in his own words) and were followed with interest, day after day, by hundreds of readers. Black and white were taking territory on the board and over time there was less and less "neutral" space left.
Saving the distances, today the Congress follows the green and celestial advance with the same passion that Kawabata recorded the "poroteo" of black and white. As March 1 approaches, the day President Alberto Fernández said he would formally announce the sending of the abortion legalization project, the work of the chroniclers grows to see what color the board would look like . Banking by banking, two Clarín journalists consulted in the last days each of the 257 deputies and 72 senators and concluded that abortion is getting closer to being law: 125 deputies would vote in favor, 106 against, 25 remain Doubtful and there is one license.
In the Senate, at the moment, 30 legislators would vote in favor and 33 against. There are 3 who did not express a position but most likely they vote in favor because they gave a positive opinion about the publication of the new Protocol on the Interruption of Pregnancy, which is not the same but is on that path. In addition, there are 5 doubtful, and another license.
The Church has already advanced its concern about the possible pressure that the Government could have on legislators in favor of the project . And he suspects that in 2018, during the vote on Deputies of the previous project, the Macri Government pressed for the half-sanction to come out since there were four deputies who "surprisingly" turned around.
Yasunari Kawabata. Nobel Prize for Literature and author of El Maestro de Go.
The Go was born more than 3,000 years ago. Legend has it that Emperor Shun of China invented it to remedy some mental slowness he noticed in his son. It is still played in much of East Asia. The drama with which Kawabata related in 1938 the games on the board are understood if one considers that this year ended the traditional way of organizing the professional game. In the future, open and “democratic” competencies granted by scoring titles and without moral limitations would be allowed. That is why when that championship started between a traditional and unbeatable Master and a young challenger, there was a new and unpredictable danger , which put the Master and a whole system of values of Japanese culture and lifestyle at risk. The challenger was the modern figure, a player adapted to the new mentality. After 6 months of hard struggle, the old Master had to give his place and his legacy to his opponent. Kawabata lamented in his chronicles with lyricism. And at the time he wrote The Master of Go, a moving novel about the end of one era and the beginning of another.
