He was born into a Slovene minority community in Trieste. That writer, he is internationally most notable for his Holocaust experiences as described in the novel Necropolis. Boris Pahor is a prominent public figure in the Slovene minority in Italy. He was awarded order of the Legion of Honour by the French government, the Cross of Honour for Science and …
Read More »ON THE BORDER OF THE DISTANCE – Slovenian Poems in the moonlight, in the short days of April
The Vitruvian Man, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius. The drawing, depicts a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square. Leonardo’s image has become much more than a literal illustration of a proportional canon. …
Read More »THE DREAM CITY – Piran, Slovenia
The Vitruvian Man, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius. The drawing, depicts a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square. Leonardo’s image has become much more than a literal illustration of a proportional canon. …
Read More »PAINTING BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION – Istvan Csok
ISTVAN CSOK 1/3 – He was a Hungarian Impressionist painter, that lived and exhibited in Paris for a portion of his life. István Csók was born in 1865, inside a February day, becoming most famous in Hungary for his nudes, portraits, and landscapes of the Lake Balaton. Similarly to the other young artists of his time, he studied at the …
Read More »ISTVAN CSOK (1865/1961), HUNGARIAN PAINTER – The systematic rigor of the academy style, and freer expressionist approach
TRIP TO GYOR / HUNGARY – A good choice for the tastes of all people
The Vitruvian Man, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html That drawing, accompanied by some notes based on the Roman architect Vitruvius work, depicts a man in two superimposed positions (with arms and legs spread ), inscribed in a circle and a square. Over the centuries that image has become a cultural icon. That man perfectly proportioned, comparing the …
Read More »OBSERVING NEW MUSICAL HORIZONS, EVEN HUNGARIAN MUSIC
Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone likes to do it the same way. All you need to do is have the time, within your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world better is easy. Choose the bench where to publish what you have painted or written a review of a book you read, or the story of …
Read More »HUNGARIAN SHADES OF POETRY
NIGHT’S – Poetry by Petöfi Sándor Night’s sleep peacefully village and town, moon Light shines the sky, starry. Asleep and you, my jewel, holdes girl sloes eye with blonde hair? I want this night to sleep are not fit, dreaming I lie awake, find no rest, Kingdoms float before my eyes, and the queen in you.Is also stealing a gross …
Read More »A BOOK OF MEMORIES – Novel by Péter Nádas
He was born in 1942, inside an October day. Péter Nádas (Hungarian author, essayist, and playwright), he is known for his detailed surrealist tales and prose-poems that often blended points of view or points in time. Personal responsibility, which means confronting the consequences of one’s own compromised morality, is a recurrent theme in his writing about history and his literature. …
Read More »HUNGARIAN ROMANTIC HIDEAWAYS
Maybe you need a little rest, just you and your love. Let me show you some Hungarian romantic places where you can stay away from the world for a couple of days, getting some cuddles. Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone likes to do it the same way. All you need to do is have the time, within your …
Read More »HUNGARIAN INNER LANDSCAPES
IMRO WEINER KRAL (1901/1978), SLOVAK PAINTER – Walking around painting, illustration and graphic art.
SPARKLING AIR, RIGHT NEXT TO THE RIVER HVOR – Welcome to Banska Bystrica / Slovakia
Slovakia welcomes you along the Hvor River, right in the heart of a valley surrounded by green mountains, in a city with a fancy name, he falls in love at first sight because of its geographical position. You’ll have to enter in the streets of its old town (where stands the central square full of flowers, terraces, medieval towers, an …
Read More »WHEN THE POETRY FEEL SLOVAK LANGUAGE
DIET BUSINESS – Poetry by Terezia Kontova Today I am eating spinach, tomorrow I am eating spinach and your smile, on Monday I am eating spinach or your smile. This is how I reduce my kilograms. Anyhow, if you are too fatty, please, look at me, and I will reduce your kilograms too, by kissing you, by hugging you, by …
Read More »THE SOJOURN – Romance by Andrew Krivak
He is an American novelist, and his debut novel The Sojourn (inspired by Krivak’s own family history, particularly the experiences of his grandparents and their contemporaries), was nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction, won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Andrew Krivak is a graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis. He have wanted to write for some time …
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