Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

ভুল বোঝাবোঝি : Gaganendranath And Camus' Cross Purpose




REALM OF THE ABSURDGAGANENDRANATH** TAGORE. A rare book printed by Gaganendranath** Tagore at his home on his private hand press. It has 16 large full-page lithographs of satirical pictures or caricatures, 7of them in colour, published in Calcutta in 1917.

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Love Letters Of Wild Mary

With you I can become the person I really am – and bearing the grave in mind be buried as such. Dear love consider yourself kissed
Mary, 30 October 1944
 
Mary Wesley before her engagement to her first husband, 1936  
‘I find you brave and amusing, understanding and beautiful, simple and sophisticated, and I love you. More than that, I mean to get you’
Eric, 5 December 1944

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Blood And Guts Club Travell To Stockholm Metro

Oct 6
''Just got trolled by 3 bots horrified of a drawing of period blood. They found THIS joyful drawing threatening. Therein lay the power. Well done, Liv Stromquist!''

Liv Stromquist and her work at the Slussen station, Stockholm
''Joyful indeed. Would it be disrespectful to Liv Stromquist if I turned her art into a clock?''

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Lorca, Resurrected With A Poor Translation

''The clock says “When will it be morning?”
The sun says “Noon hurt me.”
The river cries with its mouthful of mud
And the sea moves every way without moving.''


Above requiem by Ted Hughes says how much Lorca was and still is a major poet of the poets!


Federico Garcia Lorca was an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting of mostly poets who introduced the tenets of European movements, such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism into Spanish literature.Lorca was executed at 38 by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.His body has never been found.

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Mona Lisa Lips And A Fresh Book On Gay Da Vinci

Walter Isaacson, who has written on Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, says da Vinci is the ultimate example of combining art and science, whose insights, innovations and inventions were often decades, centuries and sometime half-a-millennia ahead of their time.


Thursday, October 26, 2017

Book Thief And The Reader

Both as books and movies 'The Reader' and 'The Book Thief' deal the delights, abilities and disabilities evolving around reading.


The Book Thief, a 2005 historical novel by Australian author Markus Zusak and is his most popular work. Directed by Brian Percival and starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, and Sophie Nélisse the book became a war drama keeping the same name in 2013.

Lincoln in the Bardo wins 2017 Man Booker Prize

Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders is named winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Lincoln in the Bardo is the first full-length novel from George Saunders, internationally renowned short story writer.