The 5 of the week
The 5 of the week of Mercedes Sicilia (Student of English course of the IIE)
Friday / “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote At the end of 1959 Truman Capote (1924-1984) read in the New York Times the news of the murder of the four members of a family of farmers in a remote Kansas town, at the hands of a couple of guys who made off with ridiculous loot. It was about
The 5 of the week of Mercedes Sicilia (Student of English course of the IIE)
Thursday / “Everything is illuminated” directed by Liev Schreiber [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahx4q58PBVE] A young Jewish American flies to the Ukraine in search of his grandfather's past. He has a photograph and the name of a village. He hires the Odessa Heritage Tours, made up of a gruff old man and his English-speaking grandson. The three, plus grandfather's
The 5 of the week of Mercedes Sicilia (Student of English course of the IIE)
Wednesday / “The city of the dead: the tragedy of Ciudad Juárez” Marcos Fernández and Jean-Christophe Rampal In Ciudad Juárez, state of Chihuahua, Mexico, near the border with the United States, almost 400 women have been murdered since 1993, and still today more than five hundred are still missing. However, more than ten years
The 5 of the week of Mercedes Sicilia (Student of English course of the IIE)
Tuesday / “The picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde Since its first publication in 1890, Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray , has remained the subject of critical controversy. Acclaimed by some as an instructive moral tale, it has been denounced by others for its implicit immorality. After having his portrait
The 5 of the week of Mercedes Sicilia (Student of English course of the IIE)
Monday / “101+19=120 : poems” by Ángel González Birthday I notice it: how I am becoming less certain, confused, dissolving in the daily air, a crude shred of me, frayed and broken by the fists I understand: I have lived one more year, and that is very hard. Move your heart every day almost a hundred times
Maria's 5 of the week (New York University student)
Friday / “Complete stories” by Jose Martí “On tiptoe, on tiptoe, so as not to wake Piedad, the father and mother enter the sleeping room. They come laughing, like two boys. They come hand in hand, like two boys. The father follows behind, as if he were going to trip over everything. The mother does not stumble; she because she knows
The 5 of the week of Maria (New York University student)
Thursday / Paul Auster “The Brooklyn Follies” “Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his eleven-promising academic career, and life
The 5 of the week of Maria (New York University student)
Wednesday / "Women in Black" by Josefina Aldecoa Women in Black is a novel that is part of a trilogy that begins with the novel "History of a Teacher" (1.990) and ends with "The Force of Destiny" (1.997). It is a literary work that not only deals with the Civil War, the postwar period, exile,
The 5 of the week of Maria (New York University student)
Monday / "Ardor Guerrero" by Antonio Muñoz Molina A courageous and naked memory, an implacable document, human entomology, a plea against intolerance, an incisive chronicle of some key years in the history of Spain, Ardor Guerrero is a book that burns in the hands and that the reader, whatever his station of departure, will live from the
The 5 of the week of Maria (New York University student)
Tuesday / "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway Considered by many critics to be one of the most emblematic novels of the twentieth century, A Farewell to Arms marks the pinnacle of the literary work of perhaps the most important American writer: the winner of the Pulitzer of 1953 and the Nobel Prize to the year