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SONG-SOO NAM (1938/2013): COREAN PAINTER: The spirit of Oriental paintingin black-white and color
SKY, WIND AND STARS: Novel, by Yun Dong-ju
SKY, WIND AND STARS His imprisonment and eventual death in 1945 in a Japanese prison lend great poignancy to his work. His poems sing of his love for his people, his compassion for the poor and destitute, and his hopes for freedom and independence. Yun Dong-ju was a poet of the utmost purity, beauty, and sincerity. “Wishing not to have …
Read More »PROLOGUE: Poetry, by Yun Dong-ju
PROLOGUE That I may look up at the sky until the day I die, without even an ounce of shame. Also for the wind that blows through the leaves, I have suffered. With the soul that sings the stars, I have to love all the things that go towards death. And then, the way that I was assigned, I will …
Read More »WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: Korean Traditional Instrumental Music
KOREAN TRADITIONAL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KCikXm6hic
Read More »ZHANG XIAOGANG, CHINESE PAINTER: To create an effect of false photographs, locked up in an inner chamber
SHANGHAI GIRLS: Novel, by Lisa See
SHANGHAI GIRLS Fate, The Luck and Destiny, these are the three sections which make up the story of the writer. Reading the novel, you will discover the life of two women, and the pages are full of their memories, memories of a distant time, those of Shanghai in the Thirties. You’ll discover a city where ancient traditions were not forgotten, …
Read More »TAKASHI MURAKAMI, JAPAN PAINTER: The creative and liminal boundaries of art, in the imagination of the mass
SOLITUDE OF TWO BILLION YEARS LIGHT: Poetry, by Shuntaro Tanikawa
SOLITUDE OF TWO BILLION YEARS LIGHT Small globe on humans sleep, get up and work, sometimes want to have companions on Mars. The Martians on their small world, I do not know what to do, maybe a little sleep, get up a little, they work a little? Sometimes they want to have companions on Earth. This is absolutely safe. Universal …
Read More »AFTER DARK: Novel, by Haruki Murakami
AFTER DARK Imagine you’re in Tokyo, imagine walking in the streets of a neighborhood that begins to live the arrival of the night. Imagine the insignia of bars and night clubs, on until dawn. Fine. Inside that darkness, it is interwoven the story of some people, involved in a case of violence. Imagine a hotel, where a prostitute was beaten …
Read More »WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: Erika Sawajiri, Destination Nowhere
DESTINATION NOWHERE In a soundless desert, under the star filled sky, I raise up my head and look at it. This scenery will continue until where? And where will I walk to? I reach out my frozen hand to touch the light, before that imaginary star disappears. Take off to the sky,wind is crying, don’t be confused with what you …
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