Augusto Roa Bastos es quizá el escritor paraguayo más conocido en el mundo (uno de los protagonistas de la narrativa lationoamericana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX). Escribió casi toda su obra en el exilio. Se estableció en Francia, donde ejerció el periodismo y la docencia universitaria. La obra de Roa Bastos se caracteriza por armonizar el legado guaranà …
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Paraguayan Music and Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELb3SSvCJEM Traditional Paraguayan Harp Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR7UcQ8R7M0 AgustÃn Barrios: Classics of the Americas: Paraguay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKdZxkrq-eQ Ausencia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OBT6359NtY
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A FASCINATE AND WONDERFUL ADVENTURE – Furrowing the savage and imposing Paraguay river
Paraguay is divided in two by the Rio Paraguay to the east of the river is the Oriente, to the west is the Chaco). This is a country with a past, a place with a romantic’s soul. Historically, Paraguay has been a place to disappear. Paraguay is a country with a twisting, turning, complicated past that, at one time in …
Read More »I AM MAESTRO OF WRITING NO ONE READS YET – Xul Solar, the creative man close to the source of the stars
XUL SOLAR 1/3 – He was the creator of twelve painting techniques, some of them surrealist, and others that transpose a sensory. He was born in the bosom of a cosmopolitan family (his mother, originally from Italy). He was a Argentine painter, sculptor, writer and inventor of imaginary languages. During the years of the WWI, he struck up what was …
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INNER LANDSCAPES – Argentina / People and culture
FAR, NEAR, STUCK TO YOU – Argentina Music
Argentina folk music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZcuW3xFRMw The best Argentina tango music, instrumental https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZfgd4TMsHI Argentina Music – Cuculi by Los Calchakis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkY1MZDmomw Hang Musica Argentina – LiveMetalArt Handpan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iysjz74yFVc
Read More »THE LIBRARY OF BABEL – Novel by Jorge Luis Borges
The first books that he read (from the library of his father, a man of wide-ranging intellect who taught at an English school), included The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His family, which had been notable in Argentine history, included British ancestry, and he learned English before Spanish. His first published book …
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AMOR – Juan Ramón Jiménez El amor, ¿a qué huele? Parece, cuando se ama, que el mundo entero tiene rumor de primavera. Las hojas secas tornan y las ramas con nieve, y él sigue ardiente y joven, oliendo a la rosa eterna. Por todas partes abre guirnaldas invisibles, todos sus fondos son lÃricos -risa o pena, la mujer a su …
Read More »PROVOKING WOMEN AND MEN WITHOUT A FACE – Jack Vettriano, the miner who wanted to be a painter
JACK VETTRIANO – 1/3 – He is a Scottish painter of Italian origin, born in one day in November of 1951, a boy growing up in Scotland. His is a poor family, he has to work since a kid. At the age of 16 years, he is mining apprentice, but he started painting with a set of watercolors, a gift …
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INNER LANDSCAPES – Scotland
FIVE SHADES OF MUSICAL LANDSCAPES
Places of great beauty and beautiful landscapes, are able to give us emotional icons. In these places and landscapes, collecting photographs and postcards, depicting a time of travel, we do not use brushes and colors, but we drink a good wine, along with local dishes. Where the landscape is shaped by the good government of men, born the harmony of …
Read More »BONJOUR TRISTESSE – Novel by Françoise Sagan
The name Sagan, was chosen because it is a character of Proust’s Recherche (Princess Sagan). Françoise Quoirez is the daughter of a southern middle class family-east of France. Françoise Sagan, begins very young to write short services from Italy, who had the title Bonjour Napoli, Bonjour Venice, title that already resembles that of her first great success as a novelist, …
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