September 28, 2024 12:12 pm

SON OF MAN – Romance by Augusto Roa Bastos

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 guaraní …

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PARAGUAYAN MUSIC

Paraguayan Music and Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELb3SSvCJEM Traditional Paraguayan Harp Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR7UcQ8R7M0 Agustín 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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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

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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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SPANISH LOVE POETRY

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 líricos -risa o pena, la mujer a su …

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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 …

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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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