"I know that many laughed at the attack on me," he says. Journalists are joking about it. And believe me it was only rancor. When I returned to this house, a hundred gazelles awaited me. There were all the newspapers in the world: English, Americans, French, Russians, Swedes, Italians ... Everyone wanted to know. Everyone wanted to be the first to give the key. And I took them home without telling them anything. "
The confessions of Vicente Huidobro, the great Chilean avant-garde poet, were collected by René de Costa in Chile in Paris (La Novela Nueva, 1930). The strange event had occurred long before, on March 11, 1924. Manolita, his wife, received a note in which he warned that he would not wait for his husband, Huidobro was locked up and immediately went to the police and diplomatic representatives of his country, Juan Gris and his wife Josette family friends in the house of Huidobro to accompany them and deal with the avalanche of reporters and acquaintances.
The investigation was launched, but soon the police began to realize that something was not right. The poet returned after three days. He had a bad appearance, but that was not decisive either: at that time there was no Paris poet who did not reflect a somewhat tormented aspect. He was wearing pajamas under his arm, which was completely absurd. Huidobro, in plotting the improbable kidnapping, had taken his favorite pajamas, so that the voluntary seclusion would not be more painful.
Juan Gris and his colleagues erupted in fury, but he kept the plausibility of captivity to the end, fattening her even more, when asked by the press about who the perpetrators were, he pointed to a rival secret society. His version of the event as he himself was told to Juan Gris and published in Paris-Journal was as follows:
"For political romanticism and as a member of an Irish secret society he had written and published his little book. In order to punish him and force him to withdraw, another antagonistic society, this British, attracted him by a ruse to the Porte d'Auteil, where he was put in a car and chloroformized. He woke up in an unknown house. For three days, he was threatened with various threats to sign a declaration, which he repeatedly refused with the greatest energy.
But because of the commotion armed by the press, added as Vicente was to the diplomatic corps, they again drugged him and deposited him on Vintimille Street, only four blocks from his house. The bad thing for the poet was that the investigations carried out by the Police induced her to recommend to the Legation and the family that they desist in their inquiries because the episode was novelistic ».
The one who was his friend, Juan Gris, never forgave him that trick. Very sick and with death around the corner, Huidobro wanted to visit him for the last time, sending a friend to ask him about this possibility. "Better not. Tell him you'd better not, "he replied.
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