Elogio della lettura e della finzione

“‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the se Leggi tutto

"English below" نیمه اول کتاب ناامید کننده بود و از چنین نویسنده مشهور و تاثیرگذاری انتظار نداشتم که پا را از حوزه فکری خود فراتر بگذارد و به طور آشکار تمام پیشرفتهای دنیا را مرهون لیبرال دموکراسی بداند و غیر از آنرا بربریت بنامد. به نظر من، تنها یک ارزیابی غیرسیستمی و غیرخطی از رژیم های سیاسی می توا Leggi tutto

In Praise of Reading and Fiction is Mario Vargas Llosa's Nobel Prize speech. Books helped me get through (view spoiler) [the pretty crappy year of our dark lord (hide spoiler)] 2020, so it resonated with me when Llosa talked about how they were both escape, breaking the barriers of time and space and allowing me to travel with Capt Leggi tutto

Pa dobro. U govoru koji pročitaš za pola sata, ima svetlih i tamnih strana. Ono na šta bi trebao i da se odnosi, bar prema naslovu, je svetlo. Iako ne uvek originalno. "Bili bi lošiji bez knjiga koje smo pročitali", "čitanje je protest protiv manjkavosti života" ili "stvorili smo fikciju kako bi žive Leggi tutto

This is so beautiful, so outstanding! I could have written his words. I'm from South America but lived elsewhere all my adult life. There's no describing this speech. Read it. Feel it. If you are human you will get it. If you are a foreigner in another land and has become every bit a citizen of your Leggi tutto

I was eleven years old, and from that moment everything changed. I lost my innocence and discovered loneliness, authority, adult life, and fear. My salvation was reading, reading good books, taking refuge in those worlds where life was glorious, intense, one adventure after another, where I could f

“Por eso, las dictaduras deben ser combatidas sin contemplaciones, por todos los medios a nuestro alcance, incluidas las sanciones económicas”. Elogio de la lectura y la ficción (2010), Mario Vargas Llosa (Literatur-Nobelpreisträger 2010) Hay ideas que me han parecido terribles y decepcionant Leggi tutto

I bought this book, used from Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska, when I picked it up and read on the first page that Mario's mother was moved to tears reading Pablo Neruda. Llosa is humble and honest in his writing. "If in this address I were to summon all the writers to whom I owe a few things or a