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02
Jan
2012
Stupidity vs. Admitted Ignorance

40 days ago by Ann L.M. Barrett

"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything." So says, Milan Kundera in an interview with Philip Roth in Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and I couldn't agree more. The converse of this is that those of us who admit our lack of knowledge are "smart." Taking this one ...

22
Dec
2011
Vaclac Havel.

51 days ago by Dr. Rafael Fernández

1968 es en mi memoria un año mítico. La globalización era algo por ser descubierto y las comunicaciones empezaban apenas a despertarse; en México la televisión a colores hizo su entrada triunfal, ese año, para transmitir los juegos olímpicos. Juegos cuya inauguración se llevó a cabo apenas diez días ...

17
Dec
2011
Milan Kundera

55 days ago by Serendipity

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"Estoy bajo el agua y los latidos de mi corazón producen círculos en la superficie."

14
Dec
2011
Întunericul psaltic al celeilalte înnoptări

59 days ago by George Şerban

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Când te gândeşti că punctul de la care Creaţia a început să decadă a fost o banală ceartă, fiinţa ta nu poate să devină decât hăituire. De acum încolo, mintea mea nu mai poate scormoni decât în spaţiul-mort, definit ca ante-lume. Aici găsesc o frumoasă corespondenţă între cine şi ce, dar, în fapt, n ...

13
Dec
2011
Milan Kundera on friendship and political convictions (Encounter, 2009)

60 days ago by Philippe Theophanidis

In our time people have learned to subordinate friendship to what’s called “convictions.” And even with a prideful tone of moral correctness. It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, w ...

12
Dec
2011
LA INMORTALIDAD.

61 days ago by Lazaro Sarmiento

“Con cierta parte de nuestro ser vivimos todos fuera del tiempo. Puede que sólo en circunstancias excepcionales seamos conscientes de nuestra edad y que la mayor parte del tiempo carezcamos de edad”. M. Kundera , en La inmortalidad. Edad inmortalidad Kundera

08
Dec
2011
Milan Kundera, Edipo e...cosa dovrebbero fare

65 days ago by marco

Ne "L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere" lo scrittore ceco Milan Kundera utilizza, attraverso uno dei personaggi del romanzo, il mito di Edipo, per mettere a fuoco il peso della responsabilità individuale, con riferimento alle conseguenze non desiderate di certe azioni. Il mito di Edipo lo conosc ...

30
Nov
2011
Teste a fronte: Ena Marchi e Georges Simenon

73 days ago by luigiasorrentino

Venerdì 2 dicembre, alle ore 17, nell’auditorium Tiziano Terzani della biblioteca San Giorgio di Pistoia, si terrà un incontro dal titolo “Dal laboratorio di Simenon al laboratorio adelphiano: pratiche di scrittura, di traduzione e di revisione”. Si tratta del secondo appuntamento di “Teste a fronte ...

14
Nov
2011
Links for November 9th through November 13th

89 days ago by Vinny Carpenter

The End of Borders and the Future of Books – Businessweek – An inside look at the real reasons for the once-beloved chain's demise New features and improvements in Hibernate 4.0 – New features and improvements in Hibernate 4.0 Hibernate Core Migration Guide : 4.0 – Get ready for Hibernate 4.0 with t ...

Links for November 9th through November 13th

89 days ago by Vinny Carpenter

The End of Borders and the Future of Books – Businessweek – An inside look at the real reasons for the once-beloved chain's demise New features and improvements in Hibernate 4.0 – New features and improvements in Hibernate 4.0 Hibernate Core Migration Guide : 4.0 – Get ready for Hibernate 4.0 with t ...

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