There is something about reading the love letters of the great thinkers, artists, politicians. This probably has to do with the very way of how we see Love. Although it can be not always happy or tend...
The Raven, Wigan On Monday I went to the Lancashire town of Wigan for the second time in all 6,5 years in the UK. I went for work, and no sooner that I and my colleagues left the train station there w...
A cover of the Russian edition of tales by Gianni Rodari La Freccia Azzurra (The Adventures of the Blue Arrow in English) is one of the books by the Italian author Gianni Rodari that I adored as a chi...
Poetry is a case of the loser winning. And the genuine poet chooses to lose, even if he has to go so far as to die, in order to win. … Thus, if one absolutely wishes to speak of the commitment o...
(written 5 Sept 2008) I am currently giving much thought to the importance of screen adaptations. I have to think simultaneously of the stage adaptations, too, because very often we are speaking about...
I noted that someone was looking for “picture on The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto “. There are various editions of the book, so the covers differ accordingly. The novel itself is woven aroun...
I previously discussed briefly how structuring the narrative works. Editing is a creative process, so I will be back to it next time. But recently I looked at the problem of proofreading, and this is ...
When coincidences like this occur, you’ve got make a point of them. So here goes… I was reading Mayakovski’s My Discovery of America, and in the very beginning he narrates his journe...
The imperial road to Italy goes from Munich across the Tyrol, through Innsbruck and Bozen to Verona, over the mountains. Here the great processions passed as the emperors went South, or came home agai...
I‘m sitting in the living room with a laptop on my knees, listening to Rachmaninov’s Adagio Sostenuto from the Piano Concerto no. 2. There is a bookcase in front of me (which I assembled m...