Thursday, January 20, 2011

Nadine Jansen Grillen

Passports White

What . I've never bierzących I wrote about the events. There is always a first time.


I am a big fan of
literary awards of all types and kinds, if only they propagate the idea of \u200b\u200breading. Passports policy I appreciate, especially after reading "Lala" Dehnala and the "Pocket Atlas of Women" Chutnik. This time honored Ignacy Karpowicz, for "Balladyna and romances." No small thing, but hopefully worth reading. Already added to the waiting books.


In the category of distinguished theater duo snatch and Demirski. Monika hyphae in the striped sweat pants, as always, thank all przekur Convention and for all, recalled the death of 1% of the project on the culture and the persistent lack of support for her. And rightly so, the rewards are not just there to smile nicely, but there to say something important, so through his works, and during the speech.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Guys Who Masterbate In Public

Policy Teeth - Zadie Smith

recently I read a lot of summaries of the first decade of the XXI century. In all mentioned the novel "White Teeth" Zadie Smith. For many, proved to be the most important book of the decade. Work of introducing the new century and accurately characterized it. Well add more. Truth itself.



surprisingly adult debut today declared a British writer tells of two families related to each other over the decades. It moves all the problems of modern society. Since the search for identity, lost in the immigrant communities, to religion, science, and especially the role of family ties in the modern world.

written in a lively, Read the delightful language. Thoughts of the author, witty literary references and passionate story take several evenings of your CV. "White Teeth" is a true feast liteacka, so you should choose carefully when you start to read it to anything you do not distract from it. You will not regret.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

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Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Reading Wilde's like swimming in warm seas, pure pleasure, even if the topic covers such difficult issues as the aging of morality, friendship, madness and fascination. The text is all Wilde.



Since its appearance in 1890, the book was controversial, and I'd build its reputation as the author of eternal dandy devoid of morality. With time, as well as two processes of homosexuality, began to be looked for in a book hidden subtext. Discerned a sexual fascination between Lord Henry and Dorian.

author plays with the convention story, mocking the readers seeking niobyczajnych content, or hidden subtext. " Books that the world calls immoral are those which show the world its own shame . "Next, the following message for the inquisitive, which I especially liked, very frequent sin is over-interpretation and the search for additional content, where they do not." Who goes beneath the surface does so at their own risk .

Perhaps someone will take offense at me when I write. It's hard. Introduction to the book consists of Wilde, the author's reflections on art and authors. Some interesting quotations that can be subscribe to the calendar, diary etc.. I know the best-selling author, who has been writing a medium-sized books, interspersed with countless number of "golden mean", annoying, caught up in power and there is no ascendant. Wilde Thoughts interwoven with intelligent conversation heroes and make up an amazing portrait of Lord Henry. Everything is in place.

And so after a few observations come to the point. What is "Portrait of Dorian Gray"? Basically the story of a young, beautiful boy, whose portrait ages instead. A wonderful story of degradation and the sham nature of external beauty.

Finally, I quote the last time Wilde. He begins his novel, inter alia, such a remark: "There are no books moral and immoral. There are books written well or poorly. That's all." In this case, I have no doubt, "Portrait of Dorian Gray" is a well-written book.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

How Do You Know Scorpio Man Is Interested?

Art in Poland 1945-2005 "Anda Rottenberg

When you ask about your favorite artist, mostly falling very familiar names. Rembrandt. Renoir. Monet. Manet. Picasso. Dali. A Polish Wyspianski, Malczewski, sometimes Matejko. All undeniably great, undeniably brilliant. In any case I do not deny their work, most of them I tend to szcunkiem, I can call some of the same favorites. Bothering me only one question: why so seldom recall the contemporary artists?

answer is simple. I just do not know them. A pity. Finish art school, art, or whatever the name of this item the ministry of education. Polish language works of writers and poets illustrate what true works of contemporary artists, but discussing the times after 1945, no one thinks commenting on art, he knocks on the door baccalaureate, and many still need to catch up, repeat ...

For some time I felt a certain hunger, perhaps even a slight shame that they do not associate the most important names, and the knowledge gained occasionally read a newspaper or visiting a museum,. A month ago I read "You're welcome," Rottenberg, worth a command position, about which I wrote on the blog. Biography and sympathy for the "incentives" makes me want to read something else. And so I found a pearl.



"Art in Poland 1945 - 2005" by Andy Rottenberg. The first complete study of Polish art. Money spent, enriched with swarms of the most interesting and important works of Polish artists współczesnych.Niezwykłą advantage of this book is a form of not being a dry encyclopedic terms, but says very engaged in lively essays.

recommend. Who has not read, let seeks her everywhere and this is not the easy and takes to read. It should expand our horizons in order to understand what they want us to give contemporary artists, because ignorance is the assertion that they have nothing to say.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

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In the Garden of Remembrance - J. Olczak - Ronikier

book by Joanna Olczak-Ronikier is vividly written family saga. This author's mother's family in the nineteenth century, assimilated Polish Jews. To know their fate I read about mercifully, passion, friendship, births, weddings and funerals. Life goes on its course.



This beautiful book telling us about human characters and human institutions, which are the grandparents in the eyes of grandchildren.

"Chief of grandmother's rules said that the life of a fully successful must be a creative life. contained in this postulate duty activity, sensitivity to the needs of others, discipline and internal discipline. And above all, constant intellectual and spiritual development. "

chapter on War zatutowano just PEOPLE. How beautiful and simple message. Is associated with a quote from Nalkowska "people to people dealt this fate," but also, and above all, evokes the humanity of fighting on different fronts, pozamykanych in ghettos, in hiding p mnieszkaniach and struggling to survive. Nothing is able to pick up their humanity, it is worth remembering.

"How sad that the old people like to talk about his past, and the young, if ever deign to listen, listen carelessly, just remember, do not ask for details, just forget about what they heard. "

I hope someday I can write the story of my family as though in a split matches that Ronikier. She made a your family a great tribute to this book, and its value is potwierdzieniem newątpliwie NIKE win. We are all guilty of our ancestors, preserving memories and passing them on, because the fate of each family is fascinating.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Heritage House Mendocino 2010

Summary 2010

While blog writing from null and void, but also run their own stats.
This year I read 90 items.
order not to renew, I'll fly a few really worth, in my opinion, read.

My love for existentialism, and thus Jean-Poul Sartre and infinitely adjustable to all of Simone de Beauvoir are well known among my friends. I recommend them to all and always. "Nausea " should know, and a collection of short stories Fri "Wall " Sartre is one of the best items that I have read this year. From the works of de Beauvoir strongly recommend " mandarins ", a brilliant book that describes the environment of French intellectuals in the forties and fifties, and" Diary paninienki stable "reading of a female, and at the same time extremely interesting. A very interesting item is the story about the relationship of the two great French Fri" T ete a tete. The story of Simone de Beauvoir and Jen-Poul Sartrze "by H. Rowley.

Newspaper election a few years ago launched a series of Classics of the Twentieth Century, I try to read all the entries in this list. In this way in my hands hit "Branch cancer " Solzhenitsyn. Surge described the history of the fight against illnesses and the taming of rubbish. I would recommend to anyone. I read in one breath.

Finally, if you have free time we reach the " Sea, the Sea " Iris Murdoch, or "maids " Kathryn Stockett. Both well-written, but completely different story.

Niebyłabym side, but if I had not written sentences about my favorite writer - Truman Capote. Each of his book is a remarkable journey of brilliant tailored world of the American South, or New York life. " In Cold Blood" is the best book you've read. I love.

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loving - Littell


difficult to evaluate a novel widely regarded as controversial. I usually do not read the earlier reviews that did not give them to manipulate or in any way to imply. This time I had to read over a thousand pages, and if reading more and more interesting to see what others think of this novel.



"gracious" is the story of Maximilian Aue, an SS officer. Together with the military crawl the length and breadth of Europe. The author describes the Third Reich, of course, but also occupied Poland, France, Hungary, the territories of Soviet Russia. The main character is moved from place to place, supervise, inter alia, the concentration camps in Auschwitz, and the siege Staliningradu.

The most commented story plot are homosexual and incestuous tendencies hero, by the way I think homosexuality character translation is very biased and far-fetched. Evaluation of "gracious" merely descriptive because of the very broad sphere of sexual pushes the reader to compare the degree of degeneration obvious hero to the state under the rule of Nazi Germany.

War in Littell's novel has a truly Kafka dimension. Subtle intellectuals, friends of Dr. Aue, how to explain to crack down on a philosophically Endlusung logical. Most of them are idealists, but some people are pragmatists who try to gain as much as possible, in fact, the Third Reich, in the background happens to total war, in which the problem is the lack of the graves and the lack of ammunition. Termination of all types of taboos, which was based on nineteenth-century and interwar society on that with great power comes unlimited evil totalitarian, and education and intelgenckie inclinations are just elegant, but nothing worth sheath.

write this novel, certainly require the developer putting great effort in searching histriograficzny and among other things for it belonged to the author Goncourt Prize. However, while reading, despite the undeniable talent and zarzymywania intrygowania reader while reading, one gets the impression that the author has a clear tendencies grafomańskie. Despite this "loving" we know it and form their own opinions about them.