2024-08-25 07:30:40
At this point it is difficult to find people who do not know, even if we only hear, Mary Poppinsa literary writing is done by Pamela Lyndon Traverswhich gave him life through a series of books published over six decades. Fame did not come to him until 1964 when he was made into a film by Walt Disneyresponsible for a wonderful musical film about an English family at the beginning of the 20th century, the Banks, whose life changes with the arrival of a magical Nanny, who falls from the sky from who knows where, who must take care of them both. Rebel family child. “[Mary Poppins] He is not an angel or a ghost, a saint or a witch, he is a ghost. If it could resemble anything, it would be a Greek temple, for its inspiring character, or a fairy from the Celtic tradition, for the mentoring work it does with the children in its care,” María chronicles Tausiet said in his book. Mary Poppins. Magic, Legend, Myth (ABADA), dedicated to the character that marks the appearance of female magic in literature.
But as novel or more than Mary Poppins is Travers, who was born in the Australian city of Queensland in 1899 and is the daughter of an alcoholic bank manager who died when she was seven years old, a fact that pushed her to be throughout it. a chance for a Mr. Banks to care for and take care of you. A voracious reader, he began writing stories as a child. His main influence, as he himself said, was his relationship with the Bible. He began his career as an actor at the age of ten, when he was cast in the production of A Midsummer Night’s Dreamand as a young man he toured Australia with a Shakespeare company. It was in 1924 when he went to England, where He became a disciple of the esoteric school called theosophy and disciple of the famous spiritual guru Gurdjieff. There he also began to collaborate with poets The Irishmanan issue that has been led by poets George Russellwho contributed to the awakening of his love in the world of fiction. If the author were to go to fiction to create a picture of a middle-class Englishwoman, an Irishman’s daughter who runs a sugar plantation, and with a complete English dictionary that leaves no trace of the his Australian roots.
First edition of ‘Mary Poppins’ (1934). / REYNAL & HITCHCOCK
For a time, Travers earned his living as a freelance artist and theater artist, using various pseudonyms. But something changed in 1934, when, encouraged by his friends, he put down on paper a story that, in fact, had happened in his childhood, on a stormy night in which his grieving mother left the house, shouting that he was going to throw up. itself into the nearby water. Seeing the panic on her sisters’ faces, Travers, who was eleven years old at the time, sat the little girls in front of the fire and began to tell a story of a magical horse that could fly through the air and cross oceans. which works to calm them down. Some time later he said of course that the animal runs underground and ended up appearing like Mary Poppins. Be that as it may, the first book of this character, which is not intended especially for children and in fact talking about the journey towards the mental brain of all the protagonistswas an immediate major success, and a sequel appeared the following year.
Walt Disney’s two daughters with his wife Lillian were so interested in those books that they soon promised their father to turn them into a feature film. And in 1938, the architect of one of the largest empires in the entertainment industry was eager to buy the film rights from Travers, who accepted his offer with skepticism, fearing that the studios, which did not even made any action films however, real, and they sentimentalized their dark stories about childhood in the Edwardian era. After years of arduous (and sometimes tense) negotiations, later shown in the film Meeting Mr. Banks (2013), The writer gives 5% of the profits and some control over the manuscript in exchange for $100,000.. A script to which there are many objections: that I do not like the love between Mary Poppins and her friend the chimney sweep Bert, that I hate each cartoon, that yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes , yes. In fact, during the production process Travers wants to design the sets, choose the clothes, and change the songs – although he doesn’t really want any songs.
A scene from the movie ‘Mary Poppins’. / ARCHIVE
Disney tired of his constant requests, until he invited him to the premiere of the film in Los Angeles. But he got a ticket and stayed there anyway. And during the screening he cried with anger when he thought that Disney had defiled his bookturning it into saccharine music. I do not understand the excess of hope, or that the harshest aspect of Mary Poppins’ character has been destroyed, that in her books is presented as a simple, prim and authoritarian woman. The writer said in an interview in 1967. “I think it makes me sad to see him out in the open, so simple, and talking about it. and I understand that these cannot be translated into the terms of the film. ” Over time, the British writer Brian Sibleywho has been his friend for years and worked with him following a film that was never shot due to production and speaking problems, told a Spanish newspaper that “it was important for him to protect the truth of his character, but he is also pragmatic, he knows very well that Walt Disney has helped to extend the life of his books and appreciate the profits that the film brings.”
Of course, the success of the feature film, the winner of five Osika, clean up Travers’ accountA black woman who is reluctant to speak her mind. She never married, although she loved many older men and for more than ten years lived with a painter named Madge Burnand in a Sussex country house. Their relationship is somewhat rocky and, after Magde leaves, the writer, who is already forty years old, tries unsuccessfully to get his young maid. In the end he manages to separate two twins – he can choose the child he likes the most – to adopt one of them, Camillus. According to her biography, Travers began wearing a wedding ring, leading the boy to believe that “Dad had an accident and died in the tropics.” At the age of 17, Camillus met his twin brother in a bar, by chance, who later showed up unexpectedly at Travers’ house. It is said that the writer fainted when he saw the two brothers together again, but when he was shocked and did not apologize for his lie, he burst into tears at the unexpected visitor – and that disappointment was great. . dealing with alcohol problems and the feeling of emptiness that Camillus lived with until the end of his days.
PL Travers with his son Camillus in a file photo. / PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
The following decades provided one of the hardest and most difficult times for Travers, who in 1976 saw one of his greatest dreams come true when he was hired as a consulting editor for New York magazine. Paraboladedicated to the scholarly exploration of myth and tradition, and in the early 1980s was unpleasantly surprised when Mary Poppins has been banned in San Francisco public libraries due to concerns about the treatment of members of certain minority groups. The editors went so far as to rewrite a chapter of the title unlucky wednesday, replaces human characters with animals, but at no time does he accept racist stereotypes in his work. He said: “I do not do that to apologize for anything I wrote. “The reason is very simple: I don’t want to see Mary Poppins stuck in a closet.”
In recent years, as his health began to deteriorate, the author retreated to his home, a Georgian townhouse in the London suburb of Chelsea. His latest book, a collection of essays titled What Bee Knowspublished in 1989 and includes his reflections on astrology, renaissance, and journalists who ask “stupid” questions. According to Valerie Lawson’s biography Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of PL Travers (Simon & Schuster), “When you turn 90, your attention turns to planning your funeral. And he announced that he did not want his funeral ‘to reveal any personal information.'” He died quietly in April 1996, already in his nineties, ten years before the Broadway premiere of the character. his most famous.
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