Don’t ask me why I like something. Most of the time, I don’t have a reason or any word to describe why something attracts me. Although, I believe we like something when we see ourselves in it, whether they are … Continúa leyendo IL POSTINO (THE POSTMAN): A lesson about life, art and aesthetic experiences
A few days ago I read, by chance, something that really amazed me. I looked up where these words came from, and I found out that they were from Livro do desassossego (the Book of Disquiet) from Fernando Pessoa. … Continúa leyendo Because Pessoa told me “Dante is a liar”
Sobre Lolita de Vladimir Nabokov: “Surely the most allusive and linguistically playful novel in English since Ulysses and Finnegans Wake”.- Alfred Appel. “Uno de los mejores libros del año”.- Graham Greene en el Sunday Times, 1955. “The filthiest book I had ever read and sheer unrestrained pornography”.- John Gordon en el Sunday Express,1956. “My best work so far”.- Nabokov, 1956. Desde su publicación en 1955 Lolita ha generado muchas y muy diversas reacciones. Es un libro que no pasa desapercibido dentro de la historia de la literatura. Sin duda, una pieza artística clave del siglo XX, cuya controversia se basa en … Continúa leyendo La obsesión de H. Humbert como obra outsider