WRITERS

THE SECOND SEX – Simone de Beauvoir

It causes the conservative audience, seeking personal recognition, vindicates the collective solidarity. Is a metaphysical challenge a social reality. What? A book, of course. With “The Second Sex”, Simone de Beauvoir frees the woman from their minor status, one that forces her to be “the Other” by man, without having to turn the right nor the opportunity, how to build …

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THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING – Romance, by Milan Kundera

There are four characters (two women and two men), where the events are intertwined, embracing all the colors of love, and also the dependence of a woman by her man, along with the fear of abandonment and infidelity. Yes, these are the existential parentheses around the adaptation of all our actions, emotional and social. Imagine reading a novel, which its …

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PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK – Romance, by Joan Lindsay

Hanging Rock stands isolated, in the Australian bush north of Melbourne. Yes, it really was the theater event narrated in the novel: the disappearance never explained of two girls and a mature college teacher, followed by the destruction of so many lives in those lives connected. Reading, page after page, you will discover the secret relationship between humankind and Mother …

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POSITANO, STORIES OF A CITY ON THE SEA – Stefan Andres and his “Dead City”, sniffing a seedling of capers

The Positano terraces are “a well-built nest with strands of silence”. This is the definition given by Stefan Andres, a German writer who lived a long time on the Amalfi coast. In Positano, Liparlati is the so-called “Dead City district”. He, from his home perched looking right out to the sea, has described those places, even for you. “Dead City”, …

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ASK THE DUST – Romance, by John Fante

Inside the novel Ask the dust, thou shalt know Arturo Bandini, the protagonist, the writer dreamer son of penniless immigrants (who lives eating Sun oranges), ironic, snide towards their peers, capricious, always conscious and unconscious sometimes arrogant, try to love but don’t know how to do. Thou shalt know also Camilla Lopez, the young Mexican waitress who made frequent use …

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THE DOLL – Romance, by Bolesław Prus

The Doll contains many subtle literary allusions, as well as references to contemporary Polish and European history and politics. The Doll, will contribute to a deeper understanding of the culture and history of countries which, since the opening of iron curtain, have been coming closer to us in many other ways. The city of Warsaw (under Russian rule in the …

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THE WHITE ARMS OF LADY SORGEDAHL – Novel, by Lars Gustafsson

Lars Gustafsson was born in 1936 in Sweden, loving mathematics and philosophy, but he knew how to love life also writing poems and novels. In his stories (as well as in his poems), you see the nuances of the imagination, where the rich man of knowledge plays with time and with their own identity. Not forgetting, reading what he has …

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NORWEGIAN WOOD – Romance, by Haruki Murakami

When your geographical horizon extends – for business or pleasure – you have the wonderful opportunity to hear you inside, like the perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside the Vitruvian approach to life. The original title …

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THE VOICES OF THE RIVER РNovel, Jaume Cabr̩

JAUME CABRE’ > Jaume Cabré i Fabré, is a Spanish writer (a native of Catalonia), but he is also a professor of audiovisual writing. Two story books, are the beginning of his stories. In 1978, he published his first novel, in which you identify the themes throughout his work: the power and the human condition. The second novel, starring a …

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THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH – Romance, by Ken Follet

KEN FOLLET > He became a reporter, first with his home-town newspaper the South Wales Echo and later with the London Evening News. While working on the Evening News he wrote his first novel, which was published but did not become a bestseller. Before this novel was published, he was known for writing in the thriller genre. He burst into …

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