December 23, 2024 12:56 pm

ROMOLA: Romance, by George Eliot

ROMOLA This famous English writer, she loved very much Florence, so much to write a novel from the misleading title (Romola), a historical novel set in Renaissance. By reading, you will know the story of a year that changed the history of the world: The 1492 is the year of the discovery of America, the year he died Lorenzo de …

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THE TOWN: Poetry, by Pablo Neruda

THE TOWN And when in the Palazzo Vecchio, looking like an agave stone, climbed the worn steps, crossed the ancient rooms, and a worker came to see me, boss of the city, the old river, the houses cut as in moonstone, I’m not me They surprised: the majesty of the people governed. And I looked behind his mouth wires dazzling …

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ECO: Poetry, by Joan Brossa

ECO ¿Podrías decirme qué es el sol? El sol. ¿Y la luna, podrías? Es la luna. ¿Y por qué llora Pedro inconsolable? Porque en su vida no ha tenido suerte. ¿Y qué son las montañas, las estrellas? Son solamente estrellas y montañas. ¿Y estas raíces qué? ¿Y qué estas cañas? Pues no son más que cañas y raíces. ¿Qué es …

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THE CITY MARVELS: Romance, Eduardo Mendoza Garriga

THE CITY MARVELS In his novel, the writer paints with words a city and its atmosphere. Everything is set in a time long gone, around the beginning of the twentieth century. Reading you will know the protagonist of this story – Onofrio Bouvila – a boy becomes a man, taking care of his life. What will surprise you, reading, will …

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WAIT: Poetry, by Galway Kinnell

WAIT Wait, for now. Be’ wary of all if you have to. But trust hours. Do not they have perhaps taken anywhere, up to now? Personal events you will again interesting. The hair will get interesting. The pain will be interesting. The buds that open off season get interesting. Used gloves you will again pretty; their memories are what gives …

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TIMELESS BOOKS: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

THE ROAD A father and a son, a road to the south, a looming catastrophe. This is what you are starting to read inside this novel. Energy resources and technology are degraded to a minimum. Inside the pages of this book – perhaps – you too will experience a thrill, sharing with the two protagonists foraging and climatic rigidity. The …

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WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: – Time to Say Goodbye/Con te partirò, by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli

The Meeting Benches way: a perfectly proportioned man, created by Leonardo da Vinci, correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. That geometrical way of the mind, could live with the simplicity of the sides of a charming square, where joy, surprise, expectations and approval are four emotions in motion. What you see, hear, eat and …

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WHEN THE MUSIC BECOMES POETRY: The wind will carry us, by Black Desire

The Meeting Benches way: a perfectly proportioned man, created by Leonardo da Vinci, correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. That geometrical way of the mind, could live with the simplicity of the sides of a charming square, where joy, surprise, expectations and approval are four emotions in motion. What you see, hear, eat and …

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