La morte di Artemio Cruz

Time of great social cataclysms… Time of youth… Ideals are calling… A revolution starts in the battlefields, but once it gets corrupted, even though military battles are still won, it’s lost. And we’re all to blame. We’ve let ourselves be divided and directed by the lustful, the ambitious, the medioc Leggi tutto

The book’s title shows truth in advertising. We are at the deathbed of a man 71 years old. He reminisces about his life and in the process gives us a mini-history of modern Mexico. He also tells us in too-great detail about his pains and symptoms. [TMI as young people say.] His wife, daughter and so Leggi tutto

«θα φοβηθείς την αγάπη, αυτή τη μέρα: αλλά θα καταφέρεις να την ανακτήσεις: θα αναπαυτείς με τα μάτια κλειστά, αλλά δεν θα πάψεις να βλέπεις, δεν θα πάψεις να επιθυμείς, γιατί έτσι θα κάνεις δικό σου το αντικείμενο της επιθυμίας σου: η μνήμη είναι η ικανοποιημένη επιθυμία σήμερα που η ζωή σου και η μοί Leggi tutto

carlos fuentes is another one of those latin american writers that makes me hate myself. beyond his tremendous skill as a novelist, he's good looking, well dressed, worldly, dashing, daring, and claims to have slept with jean seberg and jeanne moreau. the bastard. and then i come across the article

‎دوستانِ گرانقدر، <آرتیمو کروز> سیاستمدار و نمایندهٔ مجلس میباشد و به قولِ کسانی که در ایران زندگی میکنند، بچه انقلابی بوده است... آرتیمو از فسادِ دولت و ضعفِ نظامِ حاکم بر مکزیک بهره برده و قدرت و ثروتِ فراوان بدست می آورد و البته در کنارِ این موارد، امتیازِ پرفروشترین و پربازدیدترین روزنامهٔ مکزیک Leggi tutto