Breaking News

PAUL VERLAINE – À MADAME X: EN LUI ENVOYANT UNE PENSÉE

À MADAME X:  EN LUI ENVOYANT UNE PENSÉE Au temps où vous m’aimiez (bien sûr ?), Vous m’envoyâtes, fraîche éclose, Une chère petite rose, Frais emblème, message pur.   Elle disait en son langage Les « serments du premier amour » : Votre cœur à moi pour toujours Et toutes les choses d’usage.   Trois ans sont passés. Nous voilà …

Read More »

NOVELS WITHOUT WORDS: Paul Verlaine, Arlette forgotten

I BELIEVE, THROUGH A WHISPERING This is languorous ecstasy, This is the love fatigue, This is all the thrills of wood Among the embrace breezes, This is, to the gray branches, The chorus of little voices. O frail and fresh murmur! This twitters and whispers, It looks like the soft cry The rough grass expires … You say under water …

Read More »

OUZO, CAFFE ‘GREEK AND LIQUOR KUMQUAT: Looking a treasure chest of valuable islands, on a cobalt blue sea

Among olive groves and cypress trees, a small archipelago in the Mediterranean has collected over the centuries – as well as in a mosaic – the memory of ancient Greece, Rome and Venice, but it also keeps fingerprints discussing France and England. Paxos and Ithaca, Kefalonia, Lefkada and Corfu, these are the names of its most precious gems. Inside the …

Read More »

THE WOMAN WHO SPOKE THREE LANGUAGES: Traveling, inside the incredible story of Cachtice

Surely you’re not interested to visit an industrial city of Slovakia, but Nové Mesto nad Vahom is special for one thing, when you get off the train. Two castles are waiting for you just a few miles from this city, but what I suggest you to visit – just 8 miles – is the castle of Cachtice where you expect …

Read More »

THROUGH THE EYES OF KAREN: dreaming in the happiness of the night, in the placid ecstasy and rest of the heart, honey on the tongue

Rungsted, Denmark, 1885, is the place where he was born a girl named Karen Christentze. A family wealthy and happy, a beautiful country house a few miles from Copenhagen. This is the scenario where a ten year old girl loses a slice of his serenity, after the suicide of his father. The dual wealth – talking about a human being …

Read More »

TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS AND ARIADNE > Lorenzo De ‘ Medici

TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS AND ARIADNE   How beautiful is youth, who flees though! Who wants to be happy, either : tomorrow there is no certainty . This is Bacchus and Ariadne is this , beautiful , and the other is one of the burning : because time is running out and deceives , together they are always happy. These nymphs …

Read More »

THE STRANGE CASE PEASANT WHO HE KNEW READ: From Guengat in Quimper, writing pages, and observing the Moon

Jean-Marie Déguignet, was until 1998 the name of an unknown man in France. He was born in Guengat in 1834 and died in Quimper in 1905, but his death was lit by anonymous Bernez Rouz, a true lover of French Brittany. And ‘in fact, thanks to the meticulous work of the French journalist, Jean-Marie and his time back in front …

Read More »

TOUR OF CHIANTI: Places of art and rolling hills, driving a “Vespa”, wrapped in the smell of the wort.

I am happy to meet you again in Central Italy. For this meeting, but I’ll have to ask you a favor. As you know, we will move its two wheels, on my Vespa, but since ours is the “Chianti Tour” will require that the two of us we alternate driving the scooter, when we start from Siena. I will confess …

Read More »

READ TOGETHER WITH CARLOS: In the shadows of the city, to discover the shadow of the wind.

After that you will have understood the true meaning of the “Dramatis Personae”, if you will have had the courage to enter into the “Waters of March” and let yourself be enveloped by the “Post Mortem”, then, but only then, you will have discovered “The shadow the Wind. “It ‘was thanks to Carlos Zafon Ruiz, though, that you came to …

Read More »

WILLY PASINI, LOVING NEW BEHAVIOUR: four figures, a bed, and a dream

Psychiatrist and prestigious university professor, prolific writer and attentive to four characters who find themselves in a double bed. Sensitive to the new themes that contextualize the professional success of a woman, supporter of the predictive validity of the statistical methods, but also curious investigator of subtle textures anatomical-psychological-social that offer to any couple a chance to share. Free and …

Read More »