December 13, 2024 11:13 am

WRITERS

ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: Xenophon and 10,000 adventurers of weapons, in a timeless book, Anabasis

A man born in Athens, an extraordinary reporter, tells the march towards the interior of an unknown world. In the pages of his book, not only facts relating to ancient Greece, but the concerns – along with the strengths and weaknesses – of men. Timeless, the nuances of varied humanity tell us about the nightmare in impossible environments, the heartbreaking …

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A BOOK WITHOUT TIME, THE PRINCE: Niccolo Machiavelli, ie profit and virtue, in the hazy boundaries of power

Few books, like this, books remain timeless. Suggestion of writing, combined with the criteria of logic and passion, make it the object and subject of the issues relating to power and success. If you think – reading it – to remain indifferent, you’re wrong. Profit and virtue, together to concerns of power, are a reality that goes beyond the boundaries. …

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THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NATHANIEL P. : A beautiful novel of Adele Waldman, but also the life of people close to you

Those  like him, they are men that think to superficial judgment of the people, just make him an emblem of our times. “The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.” –  while you read – it like to open special window over the life of a man, while he search for happiness. Obviously, it is also an inside look at how he …

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TWO BILLION YEARS LIGHT: The Loneliness, poem by Shuntaro Tanikawa

“On the small globe humans they sleep they get up, work sometimes wish to have companions on Mars. The Martians on their small globe I do not know what to do (perhaps doze, get up a little, work a little?) Sometimes wish to have companions on Earth. This is absolutely safe.     Gravitation means force of attraction of mutual …

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EDGE OF THE ABYSS: Speaking of love, with Boris Cyrulnik

Yes, even the soul has its wounds. This tells us a French neuropsychiatrist – Boris Cyrulnik – the innovator of the circuits invisible of emotions and feelings. Not with poems, and not even with a novel, he takes us on pages full of sense. http://www.amazon.it/Parlare-damore-sullorlo-dellabisso-Cyrulnik/dp/8876848703 Almost as an architect, but without using brick and reinforced concrete, the physician-writer reminds us …

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ANNA AND THE CAPTAIN: With Jane Austen, walking into the infinite, far from the persuasions of others

Jane Austen, 42 years of earthly light, a well known English narrator, an immortality of words and emotions, which is not dead in the summer of 1817. He grew up in a home environment culturally vibrant, opening its vast horizon of words in a vast library family. In 1793 she has already completed its “juvenilia”, a collection of her poems, …

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C. L. DE MONTESQUIEU, TRAVEL IN ITALY: Four literary nuances, in the formation processes, mental and emotional, as many travelers

Travel in Italy. http://www.amazon.it/Viaggio-Italia-Charles-L-Montesquieu/dp/8842047139  Charles L. de Montesquieu, examines and describes the social scene and the intrigues consistorial, admires the beauty of women Florentine and Venetian, is questions the liquefaction of the blood of San Gennaro, along with the misery of the Neapolitans. He, a politician and diplomat, scrutinizes the United Italians of his time, but anchored to their decline, …

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V. WOLF, TRAVEL IN ITALY: Four literary nuances, in the formation processes, mental and emotional, as many travelers

Travel in Italy. http://www.amazon.it/Diari-viaggio-Italia-Grecia-Turchia/dp/8862612222/ref=sr_1_49?ie=UTF8&qid=1420197195&sr=8-49&keywords=viaggio+in+italia Virginia Woolf, novelist, essayist and activist British – died aged 59, in 1941. Among his novels, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando. Among his works, translated into over fifty languages, her diaries through Italy start of the twentieth century. There are many ways to write travelogues, but his is absolutely original, because she moves away …

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F. R. DE CHATEAUBRIAND, TRAVEL IN ITALY: Four literary nuances, in the formation processes, mental and emotional, as many travelers

Travel in Italy.  http://www.ibs.it/code/9788887804607/chateaubriand-f–reneac/viaggio-italia.html FR de Chateaubriand, the travel writer, politician and French diplomat, dies in Paris at age 80, in 1848. With him (and his travels), was born on French literary Romanticism. On his trip to Italy, visiting Rome and the Roman countryside, going to Naples to Vesuvius and the mysterious archaeological sites that surround the volcano. The Italian …

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J. W. VON GOETHE, TRAVEL IN ITALY: Four literary nuances, in the formation processes, mental and emotional, as many travelers

Travel in Italy. http://www.amazon.it/Goethes-Travels-Italy-Residence-Fragments/dp/0548168172/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420199683&sr=8-1&keywords=travel+in+italy%2C+goethe The title of a book by JW von Goethe, his travelogue in the “land where the lemon trees bloom and foliage dark fulgono oranges gold. Because where there is much light, there is also plenty of shade. “In 1832, on his deathbed, he took leave from the world, this man of 83 years – reminiscent of …

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