Hi to everybody
I attach an interesting commentaire about MacCarthy.... I was positevely surprised to find this ....
Two years ago I participated to the first Resilience Congress titled: "expect the unexpected"....part of the discussion was on the relationships between science and art....
http://rs.resalliance.org/2010/01/19/cormac-mccarthy-and-santa-fe-institute/
cheers
federica
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
To know more about the author ...
Hi,
You will find some more information about Ben Okri in : http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth82
Ben Okri is son of the Nigerian oral and writen tradition, that has major writers and fine poets like Wole Soyinka (Nobel for Literature on with The interpreter) and Igbo. They used Yoruba tradition in their writing but they are also writers of the civil war, the poverty and the relationships between western World and Africa. Particularly, Ben Okri is able to capture images of misery and magical poetry in the real world of every day.
The book I have decided to present is "Dangerous Love"
This is the story of Omovo, an office worker and artist, who lives with his father and step-mother. In the communal world of the compound, Omovo has both friends and enemies, but most importantly there is Ifeyinwa, a beautiful married woman whom he loves with a passion
Prizes won:
1987 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region). 1987 Paris Review/Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. 1988 Guardian Fiction Award (shortlist) Stars of the New Curfew. 1991 Booker Prize for Fiction. 1993 Chianti Ruffino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize. 1994 Premio Grinzane Cavour. 1995 Crystal Award (World Economic Forum) 2000 Premio Palmi. 2001 OBE
Author details available also at:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/okri.htmhttp:/
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/okri/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/1391193.stm
You will find some more information about Ben Okri in : http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth82
Ben Okri is son of the Nigerian oral and writen tradition, that has major writers and fine poets like Wole Soyinka (Nobel for Literature on with The interpreter) and Igbo. They used Yoruba tradition in their writing but they are also writers of the civil war, the poverty and the relationships between western World and Africa. Particularly, Ben Okri is able to capture images of misery and magical poetry in the real world of every day.
The book I have decided to present is "Dangerous Love"
This is the story of Omovo, an office worker and artist, who lives with his father and step-mother. In the communal world of the compound, Omovo has both friends and enemies, but most importantly there is Ifeyinwa, a beautiful married woman whom he loves with a passion
Prizes won:
1987 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa region). 1987 Paris Review/Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. 1988 Guardian Fiction Award (shortlist) Stars of the New Curfew. 1991 Booker Prize for Fiction. 1993 Chianti Ruffino-Antico Fattore International Literary Prize. 1994 Premio Grinzane Cavour. 1995 Crystal Award (World Economic Forum) 2000 Premio Palmi. 2001 OBE
Author details available also at:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/okri.htmhttp:/
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/books/author/okri/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/1391193.stm
Ben okri interview
Hi girls and one boy,
this week I'll present the Ben Okri's book "Dangerous love". He his one of my favourite authors and I think he his a wonderful example of the African niger literature, a mixture of realism and magic.
First of all, I'd like to give you some information of the author. The best way for knowing a writer is asking him what does it mean writing for him...
listen to his way of thinking ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orNNO90R-JI&feature=related
cheers
federica
this week I'll present the Ben Okri's book "Dangerous love". He his one of my favourite authors and I think he his a wonderful example of the African niger literature, a mixture of realism and magic.
First of all, I'd like to give you some information of the author. The best way for knowing a writer is asking him what does it mean writing for him...
listen to his way of thinking ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orNNO90R-JI&feature=related
cheers
federica
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Hi all,
I attach you two parts from the film "Blade Runner" based on the novel "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" written by Philip K. Dick.
In the first part, Rick Deckard meets Rachael. He apllies her an empathy test (known as Voigt-Kampff test) in order to know if she is an android.
The second part is from the last part of the movie and it is one of the most famous parts: it's an speech made by an android called Roy who is facing death. Nevertheless, it's not based on the novel.
Finally, I attach the pages that I have selected from the book.
I hope you will enjoy them. See you on friday,
Neus
I attach you two parts from the film "Blade Runner" based on the novel "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" written by Philip K. Dick.
In the first part, Rick Deckard meets Rachael. He apllies her an empathy test (known as Voigt-Kampff test) in order to know if she is an android.
The second part is from the last part of the movie and it is one of the most famous parts: it's an speech made by an android called Roy who is facing death. Nevertheless, it's not based on the novel.
Finally, I attach the pages that I have selected from the book.
I hope you will enjoy them. See you on friday,
Neus
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