sábado, 8 de octubre de 2011
Hongdae, Hongik Univ Seoul
lunes, 3 de octubre de 2011
Reading..... Bill Bryson's At Home
I've started reading Bill's Bryson last book 'At Home'. This is a list of entertainig anectotes, historical references and trivia related to the house, the home. The author's point of departure is a 150 year old rectory where he lives with his family in the English countryside. He presents a historical review of the different parts of the house starting with the Hall and moving towards the kitchen, the dining room,etc... I've learn the importance of the ice in everyday life,the subhuman conditions i which servants lived and even the problems of the streetlights in London in the early decades of the 20th Century
The Crystal Palace is a victorian builidng extensively mentioned in the book.
Ironic, charming and plenty of interesting data, this book's being fun.
domingo, 18 de septiembre de 2011
Summer holidays in Korea (again)
Seoul is a fantastic city full of things to see and do.
sábado, 10 de septiembre de 2011
domingo, 4 de septiembre de 2011
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
It was originally part of a BBC radio series broadcasted in the 70s.
I would usually try to read rather than the spanish translation, the non translated version. But this book includes a serie of interviews with some of the main characters of the movie production.
It made me want to see the movie...
miércoles, 13 de julio de 2011
Sandor Marai
This is a New York Times review of one of Sandor Marai books
Poet, journalist, dramatist, translator, novelist and essayist, Marai worked in just about every literary form, but for Hungarians it’s probably the diaries that excite the greatest admiration; written in a bare prose, they offer a merciless examination of himself and his era. He loved his native language, and stuck with it in exile (he could easily have switched to German) although he was well aware this decision ensured indigence and obscurity. His relations with his fellow Hungarians, however, were not very smooth. Insanely principled, he found himself isolated even within émigré circles.
Shortly before he committed suicide in San Diego in 1989, Marai oversaw the publication of “The Garrens’ Work: A Novel in Two Volumes.” This was what he judged his magnum opus, the story of the Garren family from his hometown, Kassa (now Kosice, in Slovakia).
HALLUCINATING FOUCAULT
One of the last books I have read is Patricia Dunker Hallucinating Foucault