ENGLISH LITERATURE
segunda-feira, 7 de março de 2016
The Crossing (Chapter I: The Blue Wall)
I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River, in a cabin that was chinked with red mud, I came into the world a subject of King George the Third, in that part of his realm known as the province of North Carolina.
The cabin reeked of corn-pone and bacon, and the odor of pelts. It had two shakedowns, on one of which I slept under a bearskin. A rough stone chimncy was reared outside, and the fireplace was as long as my father was tall. There was a crane in it, and a bake ketlle; and over it great buckhorns held my father´s rifle when it was not in use. On other horns hung jerked bear´s meat and venilson harms, and gourds for drinking cups, and bags of seed, and my father´s best hunting shirt; also, in neglected corner, several articles of woman´s attire from pegs. These once belonged to my mother. Among them was a gown of silk, of a fine, faded pattern, over whick I was wont to speculate. The women at the Cross-Roads, twelve miles away were dressed in coarse butternut wool and huge sunbonnets. But when I questioned my father on these matters would give me no answers.
(excerpt from the opening of a novel by Winston Churchill)
quinta-feira, 23 de julho de 2015
O Jardim de Cimento - escrito por Ian McEwan
"Já neste seu primeiro romance, Ian Mc Ewan revelava as características que o confirmariam como um dos maiores escritores ingleses de sua geração: o domínio técnico, a linguagem seca, narrativa de forte apelo visual, guinadas surpreendentes.
Mesclando elementos da tradição gótica inglesa a um enredo sem qualquer tipo de devaneio lírico, o autor constrói uma experiência literária áspera e visceral: após a morte dos pais, quatro crianças encerram-se no minúsculo mundo do lar, entregando-se a todo tipo de sensações e descobertas bizarras. Com o tempo, passam a mimetizar os papéis dos adultos ausentes, criando uma nova estrutura familiar que desaba quando a irmã mais velha leva um estranho ao núcleo fraterno. É só o começo de um inferno existencial para o qual não haverá saída." (Autor desconhecido)
segunda-feira, 29 de junho de 2015
A Viagem
Num estilo road literature, A Viagem de Virgínia Woolf, primeiro livro da escritora britânica, lança luz nos conflitos existenciais de um grupo de viajantes ingleses que realizam uma longa viagem de navio. A narrativa é povoada de personagens que têm sua vida psíquica devassada pelas palavras-bisturi de Virgínia Woolf. O cenário onde ocorrem os fatos é, ao mesmo tempo, material e psíquico e a viagem é apenas uma alegoria do mundo interior trazido à superfície e que se espraia diante do leitor.
segunda-feira, 6 de outubro de 2014
Rembrandt: painter, engraver and draftsman
"An ecletic artist, Rembrandt constantly varied his techiniques in order to better meet his demands. Therefore, he painted, and engraved in turn.
From his early style through his more introspective later paintings, the artist demonstrates his incredible skill in manipulating light and mood, while his striking etchings and engravings convey the energy and spontaneity of a sketch.
Rembrandt´s art, always intensely individual and somewhat mysterious, sheds light on the intimate harmony between the artist´s talent and the poet´s soul breathing through the technical perfection of his work."
From his early style through his more introspective later paintings, the artist demonstrates his incredible skill in manipulating light and mood, while his striking etchings and engravings convey the energy and spontaneity of a sketch.
Rembrandt´s art, always intensely individual and somewhat mysterious, sheds light on the intimate harmony between the artist´s talent and the poet´s soul breathing through the technical perfection of his work."
domingo, 13 de julho de 2014
Allen Ginsberg: poetry, homossexual, anarchist and a Messian of the Beat Movement
Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926 and deaded in 1997. Ginsberg was a poetry who participated of the movement beat and contraculture. This movement proposed a renovation in the literature and the artists connected at this movement to intend to do a revolution in the forme and content of the poem and in the arts. The Ginsberg´s book most famous is Uivo. The Ginsberg´s ideas and subersive poem
influenced the hippie ideologie. I found a poem which offer an idea of this subvertion in the language, form and content of the poem which is emerging in the new scene in the century 20.
For more information: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/allen-ginsberg
POEMA DE AMOR SOBRE UM TEMA DE WHITMAN
influenced the hippie ideologie. I found a poem which offer an idea of this subvertion in the language, form and content of the poem which is emerging in the new scene in the century 20.
For more information: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/allen-ginsberg
POEMA DE AMOR SOBRE UM TEMA DE WHITMAN
Entrarei silencioso no quarto de dormir e me deitarei entre
noivo e noiva,
esses corpos caídos do céu esperando nus em sobressalto,
braços pousados sobre os olhos na escuridão,
afundarei minha cara em seus ombros e seios, respirarei sua
pele
e acariciarei e beijarei a nuca e a boca e mostrarei seu
traseiro,
pernas erguidas e dobradas para receber, caralho atormentado
na escuridão, atacando
levantado do buraco até a cabeça pulsante
corpos entrelaçados nus e trêmulos, coxas quentes e nádegas
enfiadas uma na outra,
e os olhos, olhos cintilando encantadores, abrindo-se em
olhares e abandono,
e os gemidos do movimento, vozes, mãos no ar, mãos entre as
coxas,
mãos na umidade de macios quadris, palpitante contração de
ventres
até que o branco venha jorrar no turbilhão dos lençóis
e a noiva grite pedindo perdão e o noivo se cubra de lágrimas
de paixão e compaixão
e eu me erga da cama saciado de últimos gestos íntimos e
beijos de adeus —
tudo isso antes que a mente desperte, atrás das cortinas e
portas fechadas da casa escurecida
cujos habitantes perambulam insatisfeitos pela noite,
fantasmas desnudos buscando-se no silêncio.
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