My student wrote an essay on Bodas de sangre as anti-tragedy and it was great. I then discovered there is a book by George Steiner on this matter and another very interesting one by Ekbert Faas. I never thought I was interested in theatre as a genre but I think that many of the decisions … More On tragedy
I am recycling my photocopy of this collection of short stories, which I never read because it was a bad photocopy. The actual book is in libraries, and Amir Hamed is a good writer. Teresa Basile has a 2017 article on Amir’s Artigas Blues Band, and more has surely come out by now. (This is … More La sombra de la paloma
There are so many teaching guides on this, the students love the film, and you can have them read part of the book. I think I will start using all of this in a systematic way although it is not my personal favorite. They can learn to map the story, summarize, do a character sketch, … More Diarios de motocicleta
I read at the New Orleans Poetry Festival, from our translation manuscript (a revised version of the first of these poems, and some others). People liked them and thought the book has a future. I met, and got to talk to and hang out with Salgado Maranhão, his translator Alexis Levitin, the Poet in New … More Le succès
I started being depressed on November 19, 1991 and may have stopped on April 3, 2019. That makes it less than 28 years. Most people I know have not known me that long. But the cause would have been deciding it was necessary to take Da Whiteman’s ideas seriously and the cure, realizing exactly how … More “Saving my strength for running”
If you search this as a keywords through your library interface you will find that there is a great deal of material, much of it in Portuguese and Spanish. There’s a name I’ve been given, Adrianna Kezar, on this but based on titles, a review she wrote seems more immediately interesting to me now than … More Academic capitalism
It is raining and it reminds me of Mexico, Chile, Berkeley, Oregon, places I wish I lived and where I could walk to bookstores. I would like to stay home and read today and this would in fact be research. “Tenho saudade de tudo.” My colleague says the problem here is that so many in … More La nostalgie
I got up in Dupont Circle and walked past the row houses to a café, had coffee and came back and packed. I walked to the metro and rode to the airport, changing trains once. At the airport I read old notes on Vallejo and transcribed them, including the outline of an old conference paper, … More Another world
Vision… Odor and gaze Lost from view (Without a trace) Oh fury… Scandalous life… Various lions… NOT ALREADY PUBLISHED BY US (BUT REVISIT TO MAKE SURE OF WHAT HAS AND HAS NOT BEEN PUBLISHED IN TRANSLATION BY OTHERS) Camino de tierra… Mundo ilustrado… El humo se disipa… Vienes en la noche… Batalla… Leve pisada… El … More Already published
Here is someone worth knowing about. I feel really alienated from work and really sad. But it is important to recognize, as Mitchell points out, that aggression is one reaction people can have to others’ achievement. I never understood this. I believed it when told I had done them wrong, and tried to disable myself … More Koritha Mitchell
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