Emigrare è anche bello. È bello conoscere ed apprendere lingue nuove, sensazioni che si muovono in spazi diversi; strade , monti e boschi, fiumi e laghi.. volti ..che si aprono per diventare memoria.E ami le terre avute in dono dalla vita e le strade e le piazze e nuovi ricordi, nel tempo, affollano la mente raccontati in lingue diverse dalla tua e non ci fai caso tanto ti appartengono e sono tuoi.Conosci l’inglese, apprendi il tedesco, hai fatto nuove amicizie e ti è piaciuto. Diritti riservati
mercoledì 30 luglio 2008
Incontro
domenica 27 luglio 2008
Nazim Hikmet
Anima mia
chiudi gli occhi piano piano
anima mia chiudi gli occhi piano piano
Catherine Amy Dawson Scott
solo, ti guarderò partire.
Il tempo del sogno è finito
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finita la buona idea
del nostro amore.
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Ti guarderò partire
triste, ti guarderò andare.
Con sulle spalle il peso di una vita,
la mia
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perché io
non posso più chiamare vita
quello che mi resta.
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da Beyond (Poems)
Ed. G. J. Glaisher, London, 1912.
venerdì 25 luglio 2008
Anghelos Sikelianos - E SE NON PUOI LA VITA CHE DESIDERI
per quanto sta in te
Non sciuparla portandola in giro
giovedì 24 luglio 2008
W. H. AUDEN - FUNERAL BLUES
Incrocino aeroplani lamentosi lassù
Lui era il mio Nord, il mio Sud, il mio Est ed Ovest,
Non servon più le stelle: spegnetele anche tutte;
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead/ Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,/ Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves, / Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,/ My working week and my Sunday rest,/ My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;/ I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong. /
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;/ Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;/ Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;/ For nothing now can ever come to any good.
In Cammino verso Compostela
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“caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar”
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Buon viaggio Slawka ...e, se puoi porta con te la mia Preghiera, quella scritta con il cuore.
Santiago di Compostela venne distrutta nel 997 dall'esercito musulmano di Almanzor e poi ricostruita da Bermudo II. Fu però il vescovo Diego Xelmirez ad iniziare la trasformazione della città in luogo di culto e pellegrinaggio, facendo terminare la costruzione della Cattedrale iniziata nel 1075 ed arricchendola con numerose reliquie.
(Particolare interno Cattedrale di Santiago di Compostela)
IL CAMMINO
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Il 23 ottobre 1987 il Consiglio d'Europa ha riconosciuto l'importanza dei percorsi religiosi e culturali che attraversano l'Europa per giungere a Santiago de Compostela dichiarando la via di Santiago "itinerario culturale europeo" e finanziando adeguatamente tutte le iniziative per segnalare in modo conveniente "el camino de Santiago".
Apocalissi invocate e mancate estinzioni
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Comunque voglio darle un consiglio: lei ha qualche ambizione?
- Mah…
- E allora vada via, se ne vada dall’Italia. Lasci l’Italia finché è in tempo. Cosa vuole fare? Il chirurgo?
- Non lo so… non ho ancora deciso…
- Qualsiasi cosa decida… vada a studiare a Londra, a Parigi… vada in America, se ha la possibilità, ma lasci questo paese. L’Italia è un paese da distruggere. Un posto bello e inutile… destinato a morire.
- Cioè, secondo lei tra poco ci sarà un’apocalisse?
- Magari ci fosse… almeno saremmo tutti costretti a ricostruire. Invece qui rimane tutto immobile, uguale… in mano ai dinosauri… mi dia retta: vada via.
- E lei allora professore, perché rimane?
- Ma come perché? Mio caro, io sono uno dei dinosauri da distruggere…
mercoledì 23 luglio 2008
L'INFINITO - Giacomo Leopardi
martedì 22 luglio 2008
Cortès Édouard Leon (1882 -1969)
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Il padre, Antonio Cortès, era stato un pittore del Royal Court spagnolo. e lui, Édouard, ne seguì gli insegnamenti e la passione per l’arte e la poesia.
All’età di 17 anni si iscrive all'École des Beaux-Arts di Parigi e nel 1901 espone per la prima volta le sue opere raccogliendo un immediato successo.
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Cortès ha sempre sottolineato l’indipendenza della sua ricerca artistica e ad un giornalista che gli chiedeva se era stato un allievo di Luigi Loir, rispose "Non, elève de lui tout seul". ( "No, uno studente di me stesso.")
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lunedì 21 luglio 2008
Giovanni Paolo II (Karol Wojtyla)
domenica 20 luglio 2008
A.Machado
Nadia Anjuman - poetessa afgana
venerdì 18 luglio 2008
André Derain e Maurice de Vlaminvk
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André Derain (Chatou, 1880 – Parigi, 1954) e Maurice de Vlaminvk (Parigi, 1876 – Rueil –la- Gadelière, Parigi, 1958) costituiscono un binomio perché, conosciutisi casualmente in treno nel 1900, costatando l’affinità delle loro idee, intrapresero a lavorare in comune, discutendo, dipingendo insieme in campagna o nello studio di Chatou.
Nel 1901 uscirono entrambi sconvolti dalla mostra retrospettiva delle opere di Van Gogh che insegnava loro la forza espressiva del colore.
Entrati nell’ambito matissiano dei “fauves”, dettero un contributo notevole con le loro opere nell’affermazione delle nuove idee.
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Vlaminvk è un istintivo: per lui la pittura è un atto quasi fisico, una necessità vitale.
Si esprime con il colore puro, così come esce direttamente dal tubetto premuto contro la tela, un colore esplosivo come “ cartucce di dinamite “ ( secondo la nota espressione di Derain) , aggressivo, espressionista. Vlaminvk ( che neppure Matisse così equilibrato, così classico riesce a disciplinare) è forse per questo il più fauves di tutto il gruppo.
La pennellata larga lascia strisce curveggianti e vorticose che creano un violento moto psicologico, la materia pittorica, visibile, grumosa, solida, suscita le diverse drammatiche incidenze della luce, i colori si accendono per accostamento, rendendo la reazione del tutto soggettiva del pittore, travolto da un’emozione condotta al limite estremo di tensione.
(Maurice de Vlaminvk )
.Nel 1908, smorzatasi l’ondata fauve anche egli si accosta al cubismo e soprattutto al costruttivismo di Cézanne. Ma in questo suo ritorno all’ordine, tipico di tutta la scuola europea, che si accentua in modo particolare dopo la guerra 1014 – 1918, restano sempre quella carica espressiva, quel travaglio interiore, quella disperata coscienza della solitudine umana che fanno di Vlaminvk uno dei pochi espressionisti francesi.
(Maurice de Vlaminvk)
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André Derain è più misurato , più luminoso, più sereno, in qualche modo potremmo dire più francese, nel senso che Vlaminck può avere ereditato l’angoscia dalla sua origine fiamminga.
Per rendersi conto della profonda differenza che intercorre tra i due basta confrontare la ballerina del ‘’ Rat mort’’ dell’uno con la donna in camicia dell’altro. (Una ballerina del Rat Mort aveva accettato nel 1906 di posare per Vlaminck e Derain nello studio di place Pigalle 7.)
(André Derain, donna in camicia, olio su tela)
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Questo no significa che Derain non partecipi interamente all'estetica fauve, che, anzi, anch'egli, nell'interpretazione della realtà, ne supera i dati oggettivi , per rendere, piuttosto. attraverso l'innaturalezza dei colori, il soggettivismo della propria emozione. Solo che la concezione della sua vita è serena.
giovedì 17 luglio 2008
Wilhelm Apollinaire de Kostrowitsky
Guillaume Apollinaire nasce a Roma il 26 agosto 1880. Figlio naturale di un ufficiale italiano e di una polacca si trasferisce in Francia ancora adolescente stabilendosi a Parigi, dove dal 1908 grazie al legame con Marie Laurencin si mette in contatto con gli ambienti artistici d'avanguardia e con personalità quali Maurice de Vlaminck, André Derain, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse.
(Pablo Picasso)
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mercoledì 16 luglio 2008
DANIELE DA VOLTERRA
Studiò inizialmente con gli artisti senesi Il Sodoma e Baldassarre Peruzzi. Sembra che abbia accompagnato quest'ultimo a Roma nel 1535 e l'abbia aiutato a dipingere gli affreschi nel Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne. Diventò in seguito un apprendista di Perino del Vaga.
A Roma cominciò a lavorare nel circolo di Michelangelo, il quale si servì della sua influenza presso il papa Paolo III per assicurare a Daniele il posto di superintendente delle opere in Vaticano, una posizione che mantenne fino alla morte del papa nel 1549.
Michelangelo gli fornì anche degli schizzi sui quali Daniele basò alcuni dei suoi dipinti. La sua prima commissione importante fu quella di decorare con degli affreschi la Cappella Orsini nella chiesa di Trinità dei Monti a Roma, nel 1541; è situato lì il suo quadro più famoso, la Discesa dalla croce (1545 circa), basato su disegni di Michelangelo.
Altre opere notevoli includono un dipinto di Davide che uccide Golia (1555 circa), ora al Louvre (anch'esso basato su disegni di Michelangelo e a lungo creduto opera del maestro), il Massacro degli innocenti (1557), ora agli Uffizi, un ritratto di Michelangelo e un busto dello stesso che creò dalla sua maschera funeraria.
Ricciarelli è, suo malgrado, famoso per aver coperto con vestimenti e foglie di fico i genitali dell'affresco del Giudizio Universale nella Cappella Sistina, nel 1565, poco dopo che il Concilio di Trento aveva condannato la nudità nell'arte religiosa; questo gli guadagnò il soprannome di "Braghettone".
Egli rimosse a colpi di scalpello e ridipinse anche la maggior parte di Santa Caterina e l'intera figura di San Biagio dietro di lei, poiché nell'originale quest'ultimo sembrava guardare alla schiena nuda di lei.
Non suoi, invece, i perizomi ed i panneggi nella metà inferiore dell'affresco. Il lavoro di Daniele sul Giudizio Universale fu interrotto alla fine del 1565 dalla morte di Pio IV, subito dopo la quale l'impalcatura che usava dovette essere rimossa in fretta poiché la cappella serviva per l'elezione del nuovo papa.
martedì 15 luglio 2008
16 luglio - Beata Vergine Maria del Monte Carmelo
Etimologia: Maria = amata da Dio, dall'egiziano; signora, dall'ebraico
http://www.madonnadelcarmine.net/italiano/rivista/archivio/04.html
Pablo Neruda
Cuerpo de mujer; blancas colinas, muslos blancos,
Y la fatiga sigue, y el dolor infinito.
"Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
Corpo di donna, bianche colline, cosce bianche,
Dal 1926 al 43 girò il mondo come rappresentante diplomatico del suo paese, nel'36-37 visse l'esperienza della guerra civile spagnola non soltanto da spettatore interessato.
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Pablo Neruda....
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Born July 12, 1904, Parral, Chile died September 23, 1973, Santiago
Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He was perhaps the most important Latin American poet of the 20th century
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Early life and love poetry
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Neruda was the son of José del Carmen Reyes, a railway worker, and Rosa Basoalto. His mother died within a month of Neruda’s birth, and two years later the family moved to Temuco, a small town farther south in Chile, where his father remarried. Neruda was a precocious boy who began to write poetry at age 10. His father tried to discourage him from writing and never cared for his poems, which was probably why the young poet began to publish under the pseudonym Pablo Neruda, which he was legally to adopt in 1946. He entered the Temuco Boys’ School in 1910 and finished his secondary schooling there in 1920. Tall, shy, and lonely, Neruda read voraciously and was encouraged by the principal of the Temuco Girls’ School, Gabriela Mistral , a gifted poet who would herself later become a Nobel laureate.
Neruda first published his poems in the local newspapers and later in magazines published in the Chilean capital, Santiago. In 1921 he moved to Santiago to continue his studies and become a French teacher. There he experienced loneliness and hunger and took up a bohemian lifestyle. His first book of poems, Crepusculario, was published in 1923. The poems, subtle and elegant, were in the tradition of Symbolist poetry, or rather its Hispanic version, Modernismo . His second book, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada (1924; Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair), was inspired by an unhappy love affair. It became an instant success and is still one of Neruda’s most popular books . The verse in Twenty Love Poems is vigorous, poignant, and direct, yet subtle and very original in its imagery and metaphors. The poems express young, passionate, unhappy love perhaps better than any book of poetry in the long Romantic tradition.
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The experimental poet as diplomat
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At age 20, with two books published, Neruda had already become one of the best-known Chilean poets. He abandoned his French studies and began to devote himself entirely to poetry. Three more books appeared in quick succession: Tentativa del hombre infinito (1926; “Attempt of the Infinite Man”); Anillos (1926; “Rings”), in collaboration with Tomás Lago; and El hondero entusiasta (1933; “The Enthusiastic Slingshooter”). Yet his poetry was not a steady source of income, so he translated hastily from several languages and published magazine and newspaper articles. Neruda’s future looked uncertain without a steady job, so he managed to get himself appointed honorary consul to Rangoon in Burma (now Yangôn, Myanmar). For the next five years he represented his country in Asia. He continued to live in abject poverty, however, since as honorary consul he received no salary, and he was tormented by loneliness.
From Rangoon Neruda moved to Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). He increasingly came to identify with the South Asian masses, who were heirs to ancient cultures but were downtrodden by poverty, colonial rule, and political oppression. It was during these years in Asia that he wrote Residencia en la tierra, 1925–1931 (1933; Residence on Earth ). In this book Neruda moves beyond the lucid, conventional lyricism of Twenty Love Poems, abandoning normal syntax, rhyme, and stanzaic organization to create a highly personalized poetic technique. His personal and collective anguish gives rise to nightmarish visions of disintegration, chaos, decay, and death that he recorded in a cryptic, difficult style inspired by Surrealism. These puzzling and mysterious poems both attract and repel the reader with the powerful and awe-inspiring vision they present of a modern descent into hell.
In 1930 Neruda was named consul in Batavia (modern Jakarta), which was then the capital of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). There he fell in love with a Dutch woman, Maria Antonieta Hagenaar, and married her. In 1932 Neruda returned to Chile, but he still could not earn a living from his poetry. In 1933 he was appointed Chilean consul in Buenos Aires, Argentina. There he met the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, who at that time was traveling in Argentina and who was to become a close friend and an enthusiastic defender of Neruda’s poetry.
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Communism and poetry
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In 1934 Neruda took up an appointment as consul in Barcelona, Spain, and soon he was transferred to the consulate in Madrid. His success there was instantaneous after García Lorca introduced him. Neruda’s new friends, especially Rafael Alberti and Miguel Hernández, were involved in radical politics and the Communist Party. Neruda shared their political beliefs and moved ever closer to communism. In the meantime, his marriage was foundering. He and his wife separated in 1936, and Neruda met a young Argentine woman, Delia del Carril, who would be his second wife until their divorce in the early 1950s.
divorce in the early 1950s.
A second, enlarged edition of the Residencia poems entitled Residencia en la tierra, 1925–35 was published in two volumes in 1935. In this edition, Neruda begins to move away from the highly personal, often hermetic poetry of the first Residencia volume, adopting a more extroverted outlook and a clearer, more accessible style in order to better communicate his new social concerns to the reader. This line of poetic development was interrupted suddenly by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, however. While García Lorca was executed by the Nationalists and Alberti and Hernández fought at the front, Neruda traveled in and out of Spain to gather money and mobilize support for the Republicans. He wrote España en el corazón (1937; Spain in My Heart) to express his feelings of solidarity with them. The book was printed by Republican troops working with improvised presses near the front lines.
In 1937 Neruda returned to Chile and entered his country’s political life, giving lectures and poetry readings while also defending Republican Spain and Chile’s new centre-left government. In 1939 he was appointed special consul in Paris, where he supervised the migration to Chile of many defeated Spanish Republicans who had escaped to France. In 1940 he took up a post as Chile’s consul general in Mexico. He also began work on a long poem, Canto general (1950; “General Song,” Eng. trans. Canto general), resonant with historical and epic overtones, that would become one of his key works. In 1943, during a trip to Peru, Neruda climbed to the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu. The strong emotions aroused by the sight of this spectacular ruin inspired one of his finest poems, Alturas de Macchu Picchu (1943; Heights of Macchu Picchu). This powerful celebration of pre-Columbian civilization would become the centrepiece of Canto general.
In the meantime, Neruda suffered a stunning reversal in his native country. He had returned to Chile in 1943, was elected a senator in 1945, and also joined the Communist Party. He campaigned for the leftist candidate Gabriel González Videla in the elections of 1946, only to see President Videla turn to the right two years later. Feeling betrayed, Neruda published an open letter critical of Videla; as a consequence, he was expelled from the Senate and went into hiding to avoid arrest. In February 1948 he left Chile, crossing the Andes Mountains on horseback by night with the manuscript of Canto general in his saddlebag.
In exile Neruda visited the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, and Mexico. In Mexico he again met Matilde Urrutia, a Chilean woman whom he had first encountered in 1946. Their marriage would last until the end of his life, and she would inspire some of the most passionate Spanish love poems of the 20th century. The third volume of Neruda’s Residencia cycle, Tercera residencia, 1935–45 (1947; “Third Residence”), completed his rejection of egocentric angst and his open espousal of left-wing ideological concerns. His communist political beliefs receive their culminating expression in Canto general. This epic poem celebrates Latin America—its flora, its fauna, and its history, particularly the wars of liberation from Spanish rule and the continuing struggle of its peoples to obtain freedom and social justice. It also, however, celebrates Joseph Stalin, the bloody Soviet dictator in power at the time.
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Later years
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In 1952 the political situation in Chile once again became favourable, and Neruda was able to return home. By that time his works had been translated into many languages. Rich and famous, he built a house on Isla Negra, facing the Pacific Ocean, and also maintained houses in Santiago and Valparaíso. While traveling in Europe, Cuba, and China, Neruda embarked upon a period of incessant writing and feverish creation. One of his major works, Odas elementales (Elemental Odes), was published in 1954. Its verse was written in a new poetic style—simple, direct, precise, and humorous—and it contained descriptions of everyday objects, situations, and beings (e.g., “Ode to the Onion” and “Ode to the Cat”). Many of the poems in Odas elementales have been widely anthologized. Neruda’s poetic output during these years was stimulated by his international fame and personal happiness; 20 books of his appeared between 1958 and his death in 1973, and 8 more were published posthumously. In his memoirs, Confieso que he vivido (1974; Memoirs), Neruda summed up his life through reminiscences, comments, and anecdotes.
In 1969 Neruda campaigned for the leftist candidate Salvador Allende, who appointed him ambassador to France after being elected president of Chile. While already ill with cancer in France, Neruda in 1971 learned that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. After traveling to Stockholm to receive his prize, he returned to Chile bedridden and terminally ill and survived by only a few days his friend Allende, who died in a right-wing military coup.
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Assessment
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Neruda’s body of poetry is so rich and varied that it defies classification or easy summary. It developed along four main directions, however. His love poetry, such as the youthful Twenty Love Poems and the mature Los versos del Capitán (1952; The Captain’s Verses), is tender, melancholy, sensuous, and passionate. In “material” poetry, such as Residencia en la tierra, loneliness and depression immerse the author in a subterranean world of dark, demonic forces. His epic poetry is best represented by Canto general, which is a Whitmanesque attempt at reinterpreting the past and present of Latin America and the struggle of its oppressed and downtrodden masses toward freedom. And finally there is Neruda’s poetry of common, everyday objects, animals, and plants, as in Odas elementales.
These four trends correspond to four aspects of Neruda’s personality: his passionate love life; the nightmares and depression he experienced while serving as a consul in Asia; his commitment to a political cause; and his ever-present attention to details of daily life, his love of things made or grown by human hands. Many of his other books, such as Libro de las preguntas (1974; The Book of Questions), reflect philosophical and whimsical questions about the present and future of humanity. Neruda was one of the most original and prolific poets to write in Spanish in the 20th century, but despite the variety of his output as a whole, each of his books has unity of style and purpose.
Neruda’s work is collected in Obras completas (1973; 4th ed. expanded, 3 vol.). Most of his work is available in various English translations. Four essential works are Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, trans. by W.S. Merwin (1969, reissued 1993); Residence on Earth, and Other Poems, trans. by Angel Flores (1946, reprinted 1976); Canto general, trans. by Jack Schmitt (1991); and Elem Manuel E. DuranRoberto González Echevarría
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Manuel E. Duran
Roberto González Echevarría