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<title><![CDATA[Words - City of Glass, Paul Auster]]></title>
<link>http://openpalm.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/words-city-of-glass-paul-aster/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[City of Glass is described on its back cover as &#8220;a wonderful whodunnit for metaphysicians]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><em>City of Glass </em>is described on its back cover as &#8220;a wonderful whodunnit for metaphysicians&#8221;. Auster has a character reading another character&#8217;s scholarly work on Milton&#8217;s <em>Paradise Lost</em>&#8230; I offer this wonderful passage as intriguing in itself (with no desire to check his scholarship)</p>
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In Milton&#8217;s <em>Paradise Lost</em>, for example, each key word has two meanings &#8212; one before the fall and one after the fall. To illustrate his point, Stillman isolated several of those words &#8212; sinister, serpentine, delicious&#8211; and showed how their prelapsarian use was free of moral connotations, whereas their use after the fall was shaded, ambiguous, informed by a knowledge of evil. Adam&#8217;s one task in the Garden had been to invent language, to give each creature and thing its name. In that state of innocence, his tongue had gone straight to the quick of the world. His words had not been merely appended to the things he saw. they had revealed their essences, had literally brought them to life. A thing and its name were interchangeable. After the fall, this was no longer true, Names became detached from things; words devolved into a collection of arbitrary signs; language had been severed from God. The story of the Fall, therefore, not only records the fall of man, but the fall of language.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Now back to &#8220;who dunnit&#8221;.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Loneliness]]></title>
<link>http://illadrodiciliegie.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/loneliness/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>illadrodiciliegie</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Lo scrittore è un essere isolato? Un essere solitario? La vera vita è interiore, dunque necessariame]]></description>
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<p><em>Lo scrittore è un essere isolato? Un essere solitario? La vera vita è interiore, dunque necessariamente piena di solitudine?<br />
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È una questione che mi sta a cuore. Credo malgrado<br />
tutto che ogni persona sia sola, tutto il tempo. Si vive soli.<br />
Gli altri ci stanno intorno, ma si vive soli. Ognuno è come<br />
imprigionato nella sua testa, e tuttavia noi siamo quello<br />
che siamo solo grazie agli altri. Gli altri ci “abitano”. Per<br />
“altri” si deve intendere la cultura, la famiglia, gli amici.<br />
Avolte possiamo cogliere il mistero dell’altro, penetrarlo,<br />
ma è talmente raro! È soprattutto l’amore a permettere un<br />
incontro di questo genere. Circa un anno fa, ho ritrovato<br />
un vecchio quaderno dei tempi in cui ero studente. Lì pren-<br />
devo appunti, fermavo delle idee. Una citazione mi ha particolarmente<br />
impressionato: «Il mondo è nella mia testa.<br />
Il mio corpo è nel mondo». Avevo diciannove anni, e questa<br />
continua a essere la mia filosofia. I miei libri non sono<br />
nient’altro che lo sviluppo di questa constatazione.</p>
<p><em>Si ha l’impressione che per lei la solitudine non abbia<br />
alcuna connotazione negativa. Non esiste una cattiva solitudine?<br />
</em><br />
La solitudine non è qualcosa di negativo, è un fatto. È<br />
la verità della nostra vita, precisamente questo e nient’altro:<br />
siamo soli. In inglese esistono due termini per dire la<br />
solitudine. C’è solitude ma anche loneliness. Loneliness<br />
indica un sentimento di abbandono. Significa: non voglio<br />
essere solo, sento il peso della solitudine, voglio stare con<br />
gli altri. Solitude, invece, è neutro. Si tratta semplicemente<br />
della descrizione di uno stato: si è soli. Loneliness esprime<br />
di più l’emozione, la sensazione. In italiano, c’è una sola<br />
parola per indicare i due stati; in definitiva, è il contesto<br />
che cambia tutto.</p>
<p><a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Auster" target="_blank">Paul Auster</a><br />
<a href="http://www.minimumfax.com/Libro.asp?Libroid=22" target="_blank">Una menzogna quasi vera</a>,  Conversazioni con Gérard de Cortanze</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dos novelas en los quioscos a 3,95€]]></title>
<link>http://bibliofiloenmascarado.com/2009/01/25/dos-novelas-en-los-quioscos-a-395e/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>César</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bibliofiloenmascarado.com/2009/01/25/dos-novelas-en-los-quioscos-a-395e/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sabéis que soy un apasionado de los libros baratos, y siempre que puedo visito los mercadillos de li]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sabéis que soy un apasionado de los libros baratos, y siempre que puedo visito los mercadillos de li]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[QUE TE CAES ... LO VES? TE LO DIJE!]]></title>
<link>http://sushidecontrabando.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/29/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>malditocorazon</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8220;En ningún momento del acto pensé que pudiera caerse. El riesgo, el temor a la muerte, la catá]]></description>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;">&#8220;En ningún momento del acto pensé que pudiera caerse. El riesgo, el temor a la muerte, la catástrofe no formaba parte del espectáculo. Philippe había asumido total responsabilidad por su propia vida y yo sentía que nada podría alterar esa resolución. El equilibrismo no es un arte mortal, sino un arte vital, de una vida vivida con plenitud; lo que equivale a decir que la vida no se esconde de la muerte, sino que la mira directamente a los ojos. Cada vez que Philippe se sube a una cuerda, toma posesión de esta vida y la vive en toda su regocijante inmediatez, en toda su dicha.&#8221;</span></div>
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<title><![CDATA[France has magazines with FREE STUFF]]></title>
<link>http://fromrighthere.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/france-has-magazines-with-free-stuff/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>purpley</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Oh, the art of doing-not-much, is so sweet here&#8230;. But of all the wonderfully literary and cult]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Oh, the art of doing-not-much, is so sweet here&#8230;. But of all the wonderfully literary and cult]]></content:encoded>
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<title><![CDATA[Brooklyn Follies (Paul Auster)]]></title>
<link>http://ernesto51.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/brooklyn-follies-paul-auster/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 10:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Ernesto</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ernesto51.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/brooklyn-follies-paul-auster/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[            Quiero recomendar fervientemente este libro de Paul Auster que engancha desde sus primer]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">          Quiero recomendar fervientemente este libro de Paul Auster que engancha desde sus primeras páginas, novela optimista, canto a la amistad y que muestra las ganas de vivir, a pesar de la edad y los condicionamientos y problemas de la vida cotidiana.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">          Escrito con un lenguaje sencillo, se lee de un tirón y produce una total empatía con el protagonista, quien nos cautiva con su fuerza vital. Igualmente, las historias que le rodean, contadas de forma sencilla y natural nos dejan al final con un buen sabor de boca, a pesar de las situaciones dramáticas que también ocurren.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Resumen del libro</span>:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">          Nathan Glass ha sobrevivido a un cáncer de pulmón y a un divorcio después de treinta y tres años de matrimonio. Y ha vuelto a Brooklyn, el lugar donde nació y pasó su infancia. Quiere vivir allí lo que le queda de su &#8220;ridícula vida&#8221;. Hasta que enfermó era un próspero vendedor de seguros; ahora que ya no tiene que ganarse la vida, piensa escribir &#8220;El libro de las locuras de los hombres&#8221;. Contará todo lo que pasa a su alrededor, todo lo que ocurre y lo que se le ocurre, y hasta algunas de las historias- caprichosas, disparatadas, verdaderas locuras- de personas que recuerda. Comienza a frecuentar el bar del barrio, el muy austeriano Cosmic Diner, y está casi enamorado de la camarera, la casada e inalcanzable Marina. Y va también a la librería de segunda mano de Harry Brightman, un homosexual culto y contradictorio, que no es ni remotamente quien dice ser.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Jew Wishes On:  My Jewish Related Reading List]]></title>
<link>http://jewwishes.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/jew-wishes-on-my-jewish-related-reading-list/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jewwishes</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I am an avid reader.  I cannot get enough reading into one 24-hour period.  I read both non-fiction,]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I am an avid reader.  I cannot get enough reading into one 24-hour period.  I read both non-fiction, as well as fiction.  As far as fiction, I prefer historical fiction.  In January I started keeping track of the books I have read, by name and author.  I want to see how many I read by the end of the year.</p>
<p>This list will let you see the a small portion of Jewish-related books I have read so far this year, or plan to read, and it is only a partial listing of the books.   The rest are books that don&#8217;t have any story line related to Judaism, or any non-fiction Jewish element to them.</p>
<p>American Pastoral &#8211; by Philip Roth</p>
<p>Book of Daniel, The  &#8211; by E.L. Doctorow</p>
<p>Brooklyn Follies, The &#8211; by Paul Aster</p>
<p>City of Glory, The, &#8211; by Beveryl Swerling</p>
<p>Einstein, His Life and Universe &#8211; by Walter Isaacson</p>
<p>Girl in the Red Coat, The &#8211; by Roma Ligocka</p>
<p>Hester Among The Ruins &#8211; by Binnie Kirshenbaum</p>
<p>Invisible Wall, The &#8211; by Harry Bernstein</p>
<p>Kalooki Nights &#8211; by Howard Jacobson</p>
<p>In My Mother&#8217;s House &#8211; by Margaret McMullen</p>
<p>Irene Nemirovsky &#8211; by Jonathan Weiss</p>
<p>Life Beyond the Holocaust &#8211; by Mira Ryczke Kimmelman</p>
<p>Sala&#8217;s Gift &#8211; by Ann Kirschner</p>
<p>Simon&#8217;s Family &#8211; by Marianne Fredriksson</p>
<p>Time of the Uprooted, The &#8211; by Elie Wiesel</p>
<p>A Woman in Jerusalem &#8211; by A.B. Yehoshua</p>
<p>I have several books relating to Judaism on my to-read stack, including (but definitely not limited to):</p>
<p>A Day of Small Beginnings &#8211; by Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum</p>
<p>The Foreign Correspondent &#8211; by Alan Furst</p>
<p>Marjorie Morningstar &#8211; by Herman Wouk</p>
<p>Messengers of God &#8211; by Elie Wiesel</p>
<p>Truth About Lou, The &#8211; by Angela Von Der Lippe</p>
<p>Jew Wishes&#8230;Peace to you all.<br />
© Copyright 2007 &#8211; All Rights Reserved &#8211; No permission is given or allowed to reuse my photography, book reviews, writings, or my poetry in any form/format without my expresss written consent/permission.</p>
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