Honoré de Balzac est né à Tours le 20 mai 1799 et mort à Paris le 18 août 1850. Il a laissé l’une des plus imposantes œuvres romanesques de la littérature française, “La Comédie Humaine” où il a regroupé un ensemble de plus de quatre-vingt-dix ouvrages —… Read More “Le coeur d’une mère …” – Balzac
Bagliori e fragori. Sentieri di luci. Collane di colori. Lampi di gioia fulminei, per non lasciar assuefare. Così è la felicità: un lampo di gioia, un arabesco luminoso, un fuoco d’artificio che comincia a spegnersi non appena inizia a esistere.
Herbert George Wells (1866 – 13 August 1946), usually referred to as H. G. Wells, was an English writer considered the father of modern science fiction, along with Jules Verne. His work “The Time Machine” is the first great novel to imagine time travel and can be considered both a scientific parable and a class… Read More 🛸 “We are always getting away from the present moment” (H.G. Wells) 🛸
William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and engraver. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. In the prose work “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1790-93), which is one… Read More “The Proverbs of Hell” (W. Blake)
Song: Go and catch a falling star (by J. Donne) Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil’s foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy’s stinging, And find What wind Serves to… Read More Go and catch a falling star
On this day, two hundred years ago, 22-year-old John Keats (1795-1821) returned from a walking tour in the Lake Districts and Scotland with some friends, during which he had begun to show symptoms of the tuberculosis that would kill him within three years. It was 1818: during that year Keats’s health began to fail and… Read More 8 August 1818: Keats
Joanne Rowling, known under the pen name J.K. Rowling, was born on 31 July 1965. She is a British author and screenwriter, famous for her Harry Potter fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than 500 million copies becoming the best-selling book series in history. She conceived the idea of Harry… Read More Happy Birthday J. K. Rowling
L’ écrivain Marcel Proust est né le 10 juillet 1871 à Paris et mort en 1922. 3 citations: 1- “Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais à avoir de nouveaux yeux. ” 2- “Nous n’arrivons pas à changer les choses suivant notre désir, mais peu à… Read More À la recherche de Marcel Proust
MIRROR (by Sylvia Plath) I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful ‚ The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time… Read More Mirror
“All’inizio di un luglio straordinariamente caldo, sul far della sera, un giovane uscì dallo stanzino che aveva preso in affitto in vicolo S., scese per strada e lentamente, come indeciso, si avviò verso il ponte K.” Incipit di “Delitto e Castigo” (Fëdor Dostoevskij) ⭐️ … Read More Inizia luglio …
