Poetry and literature
Interview de Edward Bizub à l’occasion de la sortie de son livre “Proust et le moi divisé”.
Q. Edward Bizub, vous venez de publier un nouveau livre sur Proust, “Proust et le moi divisé”. C’est votre deuxième étude sur ce grand écrivain français.
En effet. J’ai d’abord écrit “La Venise intérieure” qui traite du rôle de la traduction. On oublie parfois que Proust a passé sept ans de sa vie à traduire les oeuvres du grand historien d’Art anglais John Ruskin. Les traduire ... sans savoir l’anglais ! (...)
Alarm clock
Technologically Impaired Husband decides to lend Rather Important House Guest his state-of-the-art alarm clock (set alarm hand to hour required, pull out button, grope wildly and thump button to halt buzzer,) so that R.I.H.G. doesn’t miss his very early flight back home. T.I.H. proceeds to sleep soundly until 4 a.m. when he suddenly falls out of bed and hurls himself at the house phone to call (...)
L’EMIGRE
Comme l’oiseau migrateur n’ayant pour richesse Que l’?lan vital et la force de ses ailes Le migrant quitte son toit fuyant la d?tresse Le c?ur palpitant, moins confiant que l’hirondelle
D’o? qu’il vienne au del? de mers ou de d?serts Le chemin de l’exil est parsem? d’?cueils Rescap? de guerre ou enfant de la mis?re La terre promise est le pays qui l’accueille.
Il blondit ses cheveux, se peint les (...)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 60 - Interview with David B. Roosevelt, author of Grandm?re - a personal history of Eleanor Roosevelt
You have written a book about your grand mother, Eleanor Roosevelt? What inspired you to do so?
This is a question I asked myself over and over as I first considered writing Grandm?re. After all, there had been numerous biographies and books written about her life and work, so what could I possibly offer that was different? To my knowledge no one had written about Eleanor Roosevelt from (...)
Interview de Jean-Michel Wissmer à propos de son nouveau livre “La poupée Katchina - Une Genevoise en Amérique (1949-1950)”.
Q. Jean-Michel Wissmer, vous êtes l’auteur de trois livres sur le Mexique et, à présent, avec votre dernier roman, “La Poupée Katchina”, vous nous emmenez au ... Nouveau-Mexique!
R. Effectivement. C’est une contrée fascinante où la présence des mondes indien, espagnol et anglo-saxon a profondément modelé la culture et les mentalités. Mon voyage dans cette région m’a enthousiasmé, c’est un lieu magique. (...)
SKIING
Skiing is a mode of living: Life is now, an affirmation, time in motion and elation. Carpe diem ! Life is skiing. Skiing is a state of being: happy trance in blinding light or blanket mists, on perfect runs or frozen pistes : a drugless high, a game of chance. The mountains are alive with skiers striving strenuously for citius, altius, fortius — not pausing for the vast, majestic (...)
At Sixty
Sixty is no eschatological age, but a breathing pause after a good run. Sixty is no end and no beginning, but a hyperbolic notwithstanding, a parable of sowing and reaping, a metaphor of memories. Too early for farewells, too late for apprehensions, less heroic than at twenty. No, ya no me malogro, ni nadie me quita lo bailado. Twice thirty is twice lived and somehow doubly young, full of (...)
Zidane Meriboute, Islam’s Fateful Path
We are happy to inform you on the publication by the Londonian Publisher I.B Tauris of the translation and Update into English of the book: "La Fracture islamique:demain le soufisme?" , Ed.Fayard, Paris, 2004.
The English title is: Zidane Meriboute, Islam’s Fateful Path: The Critical Choices Facing Modern Muslims, Publisher, I.B Tauris, London, January 2009, Translated by Dr.John King. (...)
UNITED NATIONS SOCIETY OF WRITERS SPONSORS A POETRY READING ON THE LAKE
On Saturday 10 March beginning at 11 a.m. and continuing until well past noon, the United Nations Society of Writers/Société des Ecrivains des Nations Unies and its literary journal Ex Tempore co-sponsored a “happening” at the Bains de Paquis, including the reading of lake poetry by Alphonse de Lamartine, Rainer Maria Rilke and Hermann Hesse, with translations into English and Russian.
Under a (...)
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In a chronology of Irish history, the first accurate census of Ireland in 1841 records a population of 8,175,124. It coincides with the gigantic goodbye signed by 160,000 people and presented to the popular Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Morpeth, when he left Dublin in 1841. On the first sheet the testimonial contains the names of nobility, first being that of the Duke of Leinster and the rest of the organising committee. Most of the signatories were from the aristocracy, gentry and professional and merchant classes. Further research may show that other socio-economic groups were also (...)
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