Tag: literature
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(via Carl Sagan’s Undergrad Reading List: 40 Essential Texts for a Well-Rounded Thinker | Open Culture)
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Federigo and His Falcon, Decameron Nights: Ten Italian Indelicacies Remixed from Boccaccio, The Essay – BBC Radio 3
johnfinnemoressouvenirprogramme: shappeybunny: Terry Jones introduces another tasty Renaissance tale, starring John Finnemore as a lovelorn knight. The one hundred stories which make up Giovanni Boccaccio’s humane and comic masterpiece, come from all over the world. This Renaissance work is considered a landmark in world literature. The stories are vividly reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing…
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The dictatorship still casts a big shadow, though sometimes indirectly, as in Sobrevivientes (Shipwrecked) by Fernando Monacelli. Twenty-five years after the war in the Falklands, a mother finds the frozen body of a soldier, her son, adrift in a lifeboat near the Antarctic. In other cases it is barely perceptible or merely metaphorical. Soy Paciente…
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Last Saturday, the 15th of March, Akram Zaatari and Rana Zincir engaged on a very inspiring conversation around the prolific artistic production of Akram Zaatari. Rana Zincir wrote 6 words on postcards and let Zaatari choose among them and then talk about what they mean for him and his artistic production: Longing, peace, chronicle, resistance,…
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Illustrations for Heart of Darkness, by Matt Kish (via http://hyperallergic.com/115362/art-of-darkness-matt-kish-illustrates-conrads-classic/)
Sameer Padania 