He could change her future. This thought Annabel, the woman who never forgot a secret of her tragic childhood. After separating from her husband, she changes home, going to the island of Ruegen, to live the experience of its white chalk cliffs, making long walks on pristine beaches. Yes, it is certain to regain its serenity. One day, in the …
Read More »IN THE MIRROR – Poetry by Heiner Müller
IM SPIEGEL Im Spiegel mein zerschnittener Körper In der Mitte geteilt von der Operation die mein Leben gerettet hat. Wozu Frage ich mich beim Blick in den Spiegel Für ein Kind eine Frau ein Spätwerk Leben lernen mit der halben Maschine Atmen essen Verboten die frage Wozu Die zu leicht von den Lippen geht Der Tod Ist das Einfache sterben …
Read More »GRAVITY’S RAINBOW – Novel by Thomas Pynchon
Many readers, consider it as the most encyclopedic and erotic of all the books ever written. Thomas Pynchon and his “Gravity’s Rainbow” a novel published 40 years ago – still is a masterpiece of American fiction. With your eyes (but also with all of yourself), you will discover the city of London, in 1944, bombed by the Nazis. You’ll find …
Read More »THE BRIEFCASE – Novel by Hiromi Kawakami
The succession of the seasons, a special way to measure the time of writing, developing the characters that drive the story. Page after page – as well as in the seasons – you too will know the love affairs, stories that are tying in the season of ice and flowers, stories that feed the dissatisfaction and storms, but also the …
Read More »KEEP CLOSE TO YOU WHAT IT IS IT IS GOOD – North American Indian Poetry
KEEP CLOSE TO YOU WHAT IT IS GOOD > Keep close to you what is good, although a handful of earth. Hold onto what you believe in, even if it is a solitary tree. Hold onto what you have to do, even if it’s far away from here. Keep close life, although it is easier to let go. Hold on …
Read More »GO SONG – Poetry by Paul Verlaine
VA CHANSON > Va, chanson, à titre-d’aile, au-devant d’elle, et dis-lui bien que dans mon coeur fidèle un rayon joyeux a lui, dissipant lumière sainte, ces ténèbres de l’amour: méfiance, doute, crainte, et que voici le grand jour! Longtemps craintive et muette, entendez-vous? La gaîté, comme une vive alouette, dans le ciel clair a chanté. Va donc, chanson ingénue, et …
Read More »MEMORY OF MARIE A. – Poetry by Bertolt Brecht
MEMORY OF MARIE A. > One day in September, the month blue, quiet under a young plum tree, I held my love pale and quiet in my arms like a sweet dream. And over us in the beautiful summer sky there was a cloud that I mirai long: white in the high was lost, and when she looked again, she …
Read More »HONORE’ DAUMIER (1808/1879), FRENCH PAINTER – The master at recording the unrehearsed moments of daily life
PAINTING UNREHEARSED MOMENT OF DAILY LIFE – Honorè Daumier: courts and lawyers, amateurs of prints, theater actors and humble workers
HONORE’ DAUMIER 1/4 – He, son of a glazier who loves poetry, was born in Marseille on a day in February. Also in his work as a painter, are the characteristic features of his work as an engraver: stretch and recorded net, expressionistic deformation and satire of manners. He lived in an age of dramatic political, economic, and social upheaval. …
Read More »LOW BRANCHES – Poetry by Yves Bonnefoy
LOW BRANCHES While that means last but not knowing, take eternity by low branches that protect the table where light and shadow play, on my white page of this morning. Around these two trees, first the blade, then the house, then the time, then tomorrow, to open oblivion, which already dissolves these fruits yesterday dropped by the table. There is …
Read More »THE WALL – Novel by Jean Paul Sartre
The wall, the front of which the condemned will find death. The wall, the walls of the rooms that close tragic mysteries and sexual offenses, the distortions and hypocrisy which poison social consciousness at its birth and preparing for a sort guilty. The wall, the one that hides the multiple aspects of a hallucinatory reality. This novel, published in France …
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Read More »ROB GONSALVES, CANADIAN PAINTER – When the magic realism becomes
THE INCREDIBLE PAINTINGS OF ROB – The fantastic optical illusion art works of Rob Gonsalves
ROB GONSALVES 1/4 – His surrealism is magical. Already at age 12, he began studying architecture, fostering a sense of perspective, what you can see in every painting. Nothing is as it seems: watch carefully what he paints, and you can see visual poems. ROB GONSALVES 2/4 – Dali, Magritte, Escher and Tanguy, they are his constant source of inspiration. …
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