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Like Water for Chocolate, it is a novel by Laura Esquivel, a woman who devoted herself to teaching, writing works of children’s theater and film scripts. In her novels, she uses magic realism, ie a combination of the supernatural with the everyday. In the novel, the writer proclaims the importance of the kitchen as the most important place of the …

EL SUENO – Una vez, tuve un sueño, ¡un sueño muy bonito! Pudo haber sido grande, pero se quedó chiquito. Llegó como flor de primavera, como rosa principesca. Y encendió como la yesca, hasta la más yerma quimera. En el puño muy cerrado, lo guardé celosamente. Ni tan siquiera la mente, podía abrir el candado. Quise que conociera a la …

CUERPO DE MUJER – Cuerpo de mujer, blancas colinas, muslos blancos, te pareces al mundo en tu actitud de entrega. Mi cuerpo de labriego salvaje te socava, y hace saltar el hijo del fondo de la tierra. Fui solo como un túnel. De mí huían los pájaros, y en mí la noche entraba su invasión poderosa. Para sobrevivirme te forjé …

VERDADES – No me preguntes si te amo, porque esa pregunta me ofende, si pudiera colocar moneda sobre moneda para hacer una torre de todo lo que siento, créeme llegaría hasta el cielo. Te amo mujer, amo tu historia, amo tu vida, y amo tu paz, me gusta verte estornudar, tu manía de tocarte el cabello, tu nerviosismo cuando beso …

First published in 1921, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, became Hughes’s signature poem, collected in his first book of poetry “The Weary Blues”. James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, one of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry. He is known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City. DREAM DEFERRED …

JOHN CHARLES CLEARY 1/3 – He (the first of three children), was born and raised in Coventry (UK), and his family moved to Ireland in 1970’s, where pursued his studies in chemistry, by training and has spent many years in the design and manufacture of premium domestic appliances. JOHN CHARLES CLEARY 2/3 – John Charles Cleary has always had a …

He was an American writer. Edgar Allan Poe, is best known for his poetry and short stories, (particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre). He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and is considered the inventor of the “detective fiction genre”. He was found delirious, on the streets of Baltimore, in great …

He was born on 1827 in Basel, attending the Dusseldorf Academy. At this time he painted scenes of the Swiss Alps. In 1848, his romantic introspection gave way to plein air, after he was influenced by Corot and Delacroix. But after the June revolutions, Arnold Böcklin returned to Basel, and he resumed painting gloomy mountain scenes. He resided in Florence …

Giovanni Antonio Canal was born in Venice on 1697. His father, Bernardo, was a painter, and Canaletto appears to have assisted him. Canaletto’s name, was inscribed in the register of the Venetian artists’ guild in 1720. He adopted the diminutive “Canaletto” – the little Canal – by the mid-1720s. In 1746 Canaletto departed Venice for England where he worked for …

Although he was considered a controversial figure in his day, he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Joseph Mallord William Turner, was born on 1775. He was an English Romantic landscape painter, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Extraordinarily inventive and enduringly influential, he …

Claude Monet, was a famous French painter whose work gave a name to the art movement Impressionism, which was concerned with capturing light and natural forms. He was born on 1840, in Paris. After 1874, a critic insultingly dubbed Monet’s painting style “Impression,” since it was more concerned with form and light than realism. He struggled with depression and illness …

CARLO SALOMONI 1/3 – He is an Italian artist, born in December day in Ferrara. He is a graduate from the medical faculty, but decides to leave the medical activity, becoming a professional artist. His paintings are mentioned in art catalogues and auctions. All his paints, have origin in surrealism, art fantasy and magic realism. Looking his paints, you can …

AFTER TRYING MANY YEARS After trying many years, and then near death, the able man may know an image living in the alpine stone. If at all, the high and new come slowly, and, for us, they do not last so long. Oh my beloved! Nature’s like that too, who tried for beauty times untold until she triumphed, and made …

Helping children and families, the Innocenti in Florence has worked uninterruptedly for over six centuries, like citizen institution dedicated to taking in children. The institute waiting for you in the old hospital in Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, where you can find the precious complex of the Museo degli Innocenti. http://www.istitutodeglinnocenti.it/?q=content/home To protect the rights of childhood and adolescence, but also …