I have to disagree about some of your translations. Eu vou voar is surely better translated as I'm going to fly. This tense implies an action that is about to happen or that is going to happen. In eu...
Type: Posts; User: Heteronym; Keyword(s):
I have to disagree about some of your translations. Eu vou voar is surely better translated as I'm going to fly. This tense implies an action that is about to happen or that is going to happen. In eu...
I'd recommend:
Dorothea Tanning: Chasm: A Weekend
Leonora Carrington: The Hearing Trumpet
They were excellent women artists, who found the time to write prose too.
I recently discovered Rousseau and William Blake were great fans of this novel.
It's on my list, and after reading War and Peace the length doesn't intimidate me so much, but I still fear it may...
The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays, because it contains two essays on Blake and I'm currently assembling a collection of books on him.
You're so lucky! I'd love to meet him and hear him talk one day. I wonder if he's as funny in real life as in his novels.
I've read
43 in total.
1) War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
2) Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
3) The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, José Saramago
4) One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
5) The...
I read Paul Bowles' big book of collected short-stories after reading the praise Gore Vidal gave it. For me it's an uneven book, with many forgettable and dull stories, but it also has many treasures...
I was hooked from the moment I read Fictions. Nowadays I'm the proud owner of a four-volume set of his collected works. I've been reading his dialogues with Osvaldo Ferrari; besides being an...
I'm interested in him because he's of Portuguese descent.
And can you learn ten languages?
War and Peace, Naked Lunch, The Waste Land, Foucault's Pendulum, and I'm reading Moby Dick.
Don't understand why some of those are considered difficult, unless it's because they're long.
A difficult choice, of course.
Perhaps Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen:
FURIES
Banished from sin and the sacred
Now they inhabit the humble intimacy
Of daily life. They are
The leaky...
I would defend that comedy is certainly the harder the write.
Also, I think the dominance of tragedy has to do with what we want from art; I think most people want to believe that life is tragic...
A couple of other names I should add, two poets: Wislawa Szymborska and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.
But aren't we in this forum to debate and exchange ideas?
On the other hand, machines don't argue, so I guess you are on the right path to your metamorphosis.
I'm sorry, but this statement...
Complexity is not the purview of machines. Poems are highly complicated and complex, but it does not follow that they are machines. Man are machines is a metaphor taken too far by some thinkers who,...
Mary Midgley, in her excellent book The Myths We Live By, remarks that Hobbes, like many thinkers, philosophers and scientists of his time, was fascinated by the recently discovered clockwork. This...
In defense of universities, they don't force would-be novelists to enroll in creative programs. If there's a demand for such courses, the universities would be foolish not to take advantage of people...
I've been reading Mary Midgley's The Myths We Live By, an excellent philosophy books that confronts a lot of modern muddled thinking. One of her many targets is memes. She devotes many essays to...
IntravenousJava, I'll put forth some possible reasons. I believe some people genuinely enjoy reading abstruse books. I think some people enjoy the challenge. I think it also has a lot to do with ego:...
How much truth can social animals find living in self-imposed solitude? You'd think that would actually distort their conception of human nature, no?
I think the first question someone should pose is, if these impulses are unconscious, how did Freud discover them? Freud was born in 1856; he lived in a time that, having lost faith in god,...
I don't think they're moot questions, because treatment with drugs doesn't solve the patients' problems, it just hides them. Depression, social anxiety and other psychic problems sometimes have...
For me few books are a waste of time. Perhaps I'll read both books, so thanks for the suggestion on the Norton edition. But I prefer to read books from start to finish, I never know if what others...