Etiqueta: Modernism
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Reseña: Al Faro
“Era amor, pensaba ella, fingiendo que colocaba el lienzo, destilado y quintaesenciado; un amor que nunca intentaba asir el objeto amado; es igual al que los matemáticos profesan hacia sus símbolos, o los poetas a sus frases, se había concebido para extenderse por el mundo, y para convertirse en propiedad de toda la humanidad.” Al…
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The Joyce Experience
Nevertheless, yesterday was a special day for the world of literature and I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to tell you all about it. But before that, let me tell you about my experience with the book and the author that started it all. About the book Probably one of the most complicated books that…
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La experiencia Joyce
¡Feliz Bloomsday, desocupados lectores! Ulysses Probablemente uno de los libros más complicados que he leído en la vida, Ulysses llegó a mi repisa hace unos cuatro años. El asunto empezó porque abrí un libro en el que decía que esta es probablemente la novela más grande y significativa para la literatura inglesa del siglo XX.…
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Books of February (2015)
This month I jumped across genres, so there’s a little bit of everything in the comments. Mrs Dalloway Last semester I had to read Virginia Woolf for two different courses. The first text I picked up was an essay on the modernist writer, in which she talked about how there are no boundaries or rules…
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What I read during Winter (2015)
This winter I was pretty busy with university, but thanks to some courses I found a couple of good old classics worth sharing. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man This a novel, by James Joyce, is partly autobiographical, since he tells about his own youth through his fictional alter-ego Stephen Dedalus. Throughout the pages, young…
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Books of October (2014)
Here I am once again to talk about my last readings. This has been one of the few times that I’ve truly enjoyed everything I read. Tender is the Night Scott Fitzgerald and I met again with Tender is the Night (I’ve read The Great Gatsby). It’s the story of charming, intelligent psychoanalyst Dick Diver…
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Libros de octubre (2014)
Lo que leí este mes: Scott Fitzgerald, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Juan Eslava Galán y Ernest Hemingway.
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