Uno de nuestros poetas jóvenes narra su encuentro con uno de los maestros. Néstor E. Rodríguez y Norberto James Rawlings están unidos no sólo por el Caribe que baña el este de República Dominicana sino también por el exilio.
Aquí los dejo con Néstor y Norberto
martes, junio 02, 2009
sábado, mayo 23, 2009
viernes, mayo 01, 2009
miércoles, abril 29, 2009
Post 100: Hazel McCallion
Pensaba que el post 100 iba a ser sobre Madame Bovary (les debo ese) pero esto es demasiado bueno para dejarlo pasar. Esta es la alcalde de mi ciudad, Mississauga, 88 años y pa'lante...
People, meet Hazel!!!
People, meet Hazel!!!
jueves, abril 16, 2009
jueves, abril 02, 2009
A literary survey
This was sent to me by a very good friend that have a Facebook account (I don't have one), it will give you an idea about me...
Rules: You have received this note because someone thinks you are a literary geek. Copy the questions into your own note, answer the questions, and tag any friends who would appreciate the quiz, including the person who sent you this. Don't bother trying to italicize your book titles, even though we know you want to... ***
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Oddly enough: Michel Foucault, followed very closely by Carlos Fuentes and then Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez and Julio Cortázar.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
I normally don’t buy the same book twice with the exception of The Divine Comedy (Dante) and The Republic (Plato), weird, eh!!?
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No, I am an ESL person.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Hmm, nothing came to mind at first, but then two characters from detective fiction show up: Tempe Brennan (from the Kathy Reichs’ novels) and Siobhan Clarke (from the Rebus’s novels by Ian Rankin)
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Rayuela, La insoportable levedad del ser, Don Quijote and A solas con el enemigo (Yuri Dold Mijailik, a Soviet spy novel set in World War II)
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Probably something by Jules Verne or Emilio Salgari
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Peña Batlle en la Era de Trujillo (I started it in December, so it qualify)
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Wolf) and Tres Tristes Tigres (Guillermo Cabrera Infante)
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
I don’t tag people, but that book would be Rayuela.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
A triple tie for the first time between Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Mario Vargas Llosa.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I have to agree with my friend Agnes (the one who sent me the survey): Morirás lejos (José Emilio Pacheco) could be a good movie, but also (and it’s coming soon): The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz), with a honorable mention for: A solas con el enemigo
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I don’t dream anything that is printable, publishable or susceptible to be share in any public forum.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Again, agreeing with Agnes (this is not good at all!!!) The Da Vinci Code and I did not like it.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
I will say History in Transit (Dominick LaCapra), I did not enjoy that one, I should plow through it again according to some people. Beginnings: Intention and Method (Edward W. Said) is a close second but very enjoyable, maybe because it’s Said, and I will read that one again, soon.
16) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Both
17) Austen or Eliot?
I haven’t read any of them seriously, but I will go with Austen
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare and Cervantes
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Ok, are we talking about authors, particular books, traditions, genres...!? So pick one category and I will have a lot of gaps...
23) What is your favorite novel?
Rayuela, because you ask so directly, Jesus!!!!, but then also Cien años de soledad, La región más transparente, Cambio de Piel, La insoportable levedad del ser, La tía Julia y el escribidor, Los detectives salvajes, The Human Stain, A solas con el enemigo ...
24) Play?
A play that I have seen or a play that I have read? Ok, play that I have seen... I don’t go to the theater as I should. Play that I have read: Hamlet, Antigone and all Lorca.
26) Short story?
Authors: Cortázar, Borges, Poe, Bosch, René del Risco
28) Work of non-fiction?
Vigilar y Castigar, Las palabras y las cosas (Foucault)
29) Who is your favorite writer?
HAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!! Ok then, Cortázar, Dylan, Foucault, Vargas Llosa, Fuentes, García Márquez, and I am becoming a Bolaño fan, a big, big one
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Not a clue, but probably Dan Brown tied with Paulo Coelho
31) What is your desert island book?
I was tempted to answer: If you have to ask...but I will answer it anyway: Rayuela
32) And ... what are you reading right now?
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France, 1977-1978 (Foucault), The Love of a Good Woman (Alice Munro), Caribe Two Ways (Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel) and I just finished re-reading Madame Bovary...
Rules: You have received this note because someone thinks you are a literary geek. Copy the questions into your own note, answer the questions, and tag any friends who would appreciate the quiz, including the person who sent you this. Don't bother trying to italicize your book titles, even though we know you want to... ***
1) What author do you own the most books by?
Oddly enough: Michel Foucault, followed very closely by Carlos Fuentes and then Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez and Julio Cortázar.
2) What book do you own the most copies of?
I normally don’t buy the same book twice with the exception of The Divine Comedy (Dante) and The Republic (Plato), weird, eh!!?
3) Did it bother you that both those questions ended with prepositions?
No, I am an ESL person.
4) What fictional character are you secretly in love with?
Hmm, nothing came to mind at first, but then two characters from detective fiction show up: Tempe Brennan (from the Kathy Reichs’ novels) and Siobhan Clarke (from the Rebus’s novels by Ian Rankin)
5) What book have you read the most times in your life?
Rayuela, La insoportable levedad del ser, Don Quijote and A solas con el enemigo (Yuri Dold Mijailik, a Soviet spy novel set in World War II)
6) What was your favorite book when you were ten years old?
Probably something by Jules Verne or Emilio Salgari
7) What is the worst book you've read in the past year?
Peña Batlle en la Era de Trujillo (I started it in December, so it qualify)
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year?
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Wolf) and Tres Tristes Tigres (Guillermo Cabrera Infante)
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be?
I don’t tag people, but that book would be Rayuela.
10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for literature?
A triple tie for the first time between Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Mario Vargas Llosa.
11) What book would you most like to see made into a movie?
I have to agree with my friend Agnes (the one who sent me the survey): Morirás lejos (José Emilio Pacheco) could be a good movie, but also (and it’s coming soon): The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz), with a honorable mention for: A solas con el enemigo
13) Describe your weirdest dream involving a writer, book, or literary character.
I don’t dream anything that is printable, publishable or susceptible to be share in any public forum.
14) What is the most lowbrow book you've read as an adult?
Again, agreeing with Agnes (this is not good at all!!!) The Da Vinci Code and I did not like it.
15) What is the most difficult book you've ever read?
I will say History in Transit (Dominick LaCapra), I did not enjoy that one, I should plow through it again according to some people. Beginnings: Intention and Method (Edward W. Said) is a close second but very enjoyable, maybe because it’s Said, and I will read that one again, soon.
16) Do you prefer the French or the Russians?
Both
17) Austen or Eliot?
I haven’t read any of them seriously, but I will go with Austen
20) Shakespeare, Milton, or Chaucer?
Shakespeare and Cervantes
22) What is the biggest or most embarrassing gap in your reading?
Ok, are we talking about authors, particular books, traditions, genres...!? So pick one category and I will have a lot of gaps...
23) What is your favorite novel?
Rayuela, because you ask so directly, Jesus!!!!, but then also Cien años de soledad, La región más transparente, Cambio de Piel, La insoportable levedad del ser, La tía Julia y el escribidor, Los detectives salvajes, The Human Stain, A solas con el enemigo ...
24) Play?
A play that I have seen or a play that I have read? Ok, play that I have seen... I don’t go to the theater as I should. Play that I have read: Hamlet, Antigone and all Lorca.
26) Short story?
Authors: Cortázar, Borges, Poe, Bosch, René del Risco
28) Work of non-fiction?
Vigilar y Castigar, Las palabras y las cosas (Foucault)
29) Who is your favorite writer?
HAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!! Ok then, Cortázar, Dylan, Foucault, Vargas Llosa, Fuentes, García Márquez, and I am becoming a Bolaño fan, a big, big one
30) Who is the most overrated writer alive today?
Not a clue, but probably Dan Brown tied with Paulo Coelho
31) What is your desert island book?
I was tempted to answer: If you have to ask...but I will answer it anyway: Rayuela
32) And ... what are you reading right now?
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France, 1977-1978 (Foucault), The Love of a Good Woman (Alice Munro), Caribe Two Ways (Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel) and I just finished re-reading Madame Bovary...
sábado, enero 31, 2009
Why Read The Classics? (Italo Calvino)
Generalmente los clásicos intimidan pero Calvino en este libro intenta hacerlos más asequibles. Como todo libro de crítica literaria este es un texto eminentemente personal: la lista de clásicos de Calvino va desde Homero y Jenofonte a Raymond Queneau y Eugenio Montale pasando por Balzac, Stendhal, Conrad, Tolstoy y Dickens, sin dejar de lado a James, Flaubert y Hemingway.
Los invito a leer el libro no sólo por lo que nos dice de los clásicos analizados sino también por lo que nos dice del propio Calvino y de su proceso de lectura.
Aquí los dejo con las doce definiciones de "clásico" que ofrece Calvino (la traducción es mía) y los invito a reflexionar y compartir conmigo sus propios clásicos y a mis lectores dominicanos, les dejo la siguiente pregunta: ¿Cuáles serían los clásicos dominicanos?
- Los clásicos son esos libros acerca de los cuales usualmente uno oye a la gente decir: “estoy re-leyendo…” nunca “estoy leyendo…”
- Los clásicos son esos libros que constituyen una experiencia atesorada por aquellos que los han leído y amado; pero que se mantienen siendo una experiencia igual de enriquecedora para aquellos que reservan la oportunidad de leerlos cuando estén preparados para ello.
- Los clásicos son libros que ejercen una influencia particular, tanto cuando se imprimen en nuestra imaginación como inolvidables como cuando se esconden en las entretelas de la memoria como parte del inconsciente colectivo o individual.
- Un clásico es un libro que con cada re-lectura ofrece el mismo sentimiento de descubrimiento que en la primera lectura.
- Un clásico es un libro que aún cuando lo leemos por primera vez nos da la sensación de re-leer algo que ya hemos leído antes.
- Un clásico es un libro que nunca agota todo lo que tiene que decir a sus lectores.
- Los clásicos son aquellos libros que nos llegan con el aura de interpretaciones previas y cargan, detrás suyo, las huellas que han dejado en la cultura o culturas (o al menos en la lengua y en la cultura) a través de las cuales han pasado.
- Un clásico es una obra que constantemente genera a su alrededor una nube de polvo crítico pero que siempre se sacude las partículas.
- Los clásicos son libros que, mientras más pensamos que los conocemos de oídas, más originales, inesperados e innovadores los encontramos cuando realmente los leemos.
- Clásico es el término que se le otorga a un libro que ha venido a representar todo el universo, un libro que se compara con los talismanes antiguos.
- “Tu” clásico es un libro hacia el cual no puedes permanecer indiferente, y que te ayuda a definirte en relación con o en oposición a él.
- Un clásico es un trabajo que viene antes de otros clásicos, pero aquellos que leen otros clásicos antes reconocen inmediatamente su lugar en la genealogía de las obras clásicas.
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