MEMBER BLOG TAG: natura
| Sunday, May 1, 2011 8:40PM | | | | A CONVERSATION WITH HAROLD BLOOM | Tags: Literary taste, Western literary canon, literary criticism, Shakespeare's greatness: naturalistic characterizations. Walt Whitman's finest works, Ralph Waldo Emerson as American mentor, Edmund Wilson as inspiration, Dr. Samuel Johnson as role model for Harold Bloom, love of reading.
| | | | Yale University’s Sterling Professor of Humanities, author of many books of literary criticism and cultural analysis, Harold Bloom, was introduced and questioned by Paul Holdengraber to stimulate a conversation about Mr. Bloom's opinions and career. Holdengraber is curator of “LIVE from the NYPL, a Cognitive Theatre with a mission to provoke, engage, instigate, and agitate the mind.” The acoustics in the auditorium were poor, causing an echo-like reverberation that made it difficult to understand what the men were saying. Holdengraber's German accent and Harold Bloom's age and difficult speech, and habit of mumbling behind the hand supporting his chin, made it hard to understand their conversation. Most audience members, except for those in the very front rows near the stage, had difficulty getting all the... | | | | | | | Saturday, April 25, 2009 2:36PM | | | | Crossing borders with Le Clèzio | Tags: Le Clèzio, Gopnik, confini, creolizzazione, radicamento, natura, dettagli, Nobel, ribellione, immaginazione, memoria, letteratura, altri
| | | “Where do you come from?”—“I’m crossing borders.”
Entrando dimesso e allampanato sul palco del 92nd Street Y a New York, seguito a passetti rapidi dal critico Adam Gopnik, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (atipico anche nel nome), già comunica tutto se stesso. La conversazione, seguita da un pubblico sempre più sorpreso e affascinato, confermerà la prima impressione.
Credo che pochi tra i presenti abbiano letto qualcosa di Le Clézio. Io... | | | | | |
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