tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92044772012-02-16T23:44:46.848-08:00A literary critic at large in a melting planetGiorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-18161967483072225112010-01-15T01:58:00.000-08:002010-01-15T02:02:05.651-08:00

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-20204082613199553152008-12-26T08:00:00.001-08:002008-12-26T08:19:13.732-08:00

I wish everyone a joyous holiday and a sparkling new year.The BBC Middle East published a video of Aleem Maqbool's foot journey from Nazareth to Betlehem, the road followed more than two thousand years ago by Joseph and Mary. This is a nice way to celebrate Christmas.Also, take a look at a photo from Thailand, portraying a group of people remembering the South East Asian Tsunami and its victims.

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The Economist published its list of books of the year, out of which I picked my favourites. Most of my choices are related to globalisation, in different ways (but what isn't global these days?). These books will be my post-Christmas reading list.I will start with Dinner with Mugabe, by Heidi Holland, a South African journalist who give an intimate and well-researched portrait of the freedom

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-13701471617070929272008-12-10T09:49:00.001-08:002008-12-10T14:38:47.185-08:00

Theoretically, translating a text from one language to another is an impossible task. But luckily it happens all the time. Reading translated books and discuss how translators achieved this impossible task is delightful. At least according to A. M. Correa, a student of literary translation:I think this is a favorite aspect of studying literary translation: learning how translators have used

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-49758578825426026522008-12-09T02:28:00.000-08:002008-12-09T03:49:14.698-08:00

Le Monde, the French newspaper, published yesterday an article (Prix littéraires : la fin d'un système ? -Literary Prizes: the End of a Era?) that discussed the 2008 literary prizes in France, noticing that it was a transformational year. Alain Beuve-Méry wrote that, even though one cannot speak of a revolution, a "changing wind" can be perceived.Mais que s'est-il donc passé cette année ? Les

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-91131891307240420872008-11-27T07:42:00.000-08:002008-11-28T07:11:37.443-08:00

I just find out that after almost two years without posting I am still in the blogroll of an Argentinian blog, Hotel Céline. It's the blog of a radio show aired by an Argentinian radio. To be honest, I am not sure why they linked me in the first place, but is nice to know they kept the address.I made also another discovery through LibraryThing, a social networking site in which you can share the

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Miriam Makeba (Johannesburg, March 4, 1932 - Castel Volturno (Naples), November 9, 2oo8)"In the mind, in the heart, I was always home."(Miriam Makeba)

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-29226103259036670312008-11-07T14:51:00.000-08:002008-11-07T15:53:17.025-08:00

Tonight I decided that, since this week was an historic moment, as I said in the previous post, I needed to understand it better, to be more involved in it. So I went all the way to an international bookshop in Rome and, after a thorough and careful browsing in the shelf (twenty or thirty seconds, more or less) I bought the following books:David Mendell, Obama: From Promise to Power, a biography

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Obama is everywhere at the moment. And receive videocards from everywhere. As Janine Mendes-Franco (a caribbean blogger) wrote, Yes, they did!Indeed, this is a historical moment. Not so much, imho, because he is the first African american in the White House, but because he is the first "Creole" there. One of the white supremacist self-appointed-candidate-to-kill, in his paranoid discourse,

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-1108025971725807502005-02-09T13:53:00.000-08:002005-02-10T00:59:31.726-08:00

I have been out quite a long time because I am planning to move to South Africa in a few months, and I have quite a lot of things to organize. I don't know how often I will be able to post in the future.

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To confirm what I was saying yesterday about the weblogs as a more humane way of coping with the endless flow of information, allowing to be at the same time updated and not superficial nor overwhelmed by infos and news, I discovered that the UK leading newspaper, the GUARDIAN, started in September 2004 his Newsblog, the main part of which is, in their own words, to "tell you some of the main

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Recently, the French newspaper Le monde discussed a study made by Observatoire du débat public, about the changing habit of catching up with the news. This is a particularly interesting subject, in a time in which different ways to distribute and disseminate, on- and offline, are becoming widespread. A shift occurred from the traditional consumer, which had very stable habits (his days were

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-1103111463929981552004-12-21T22:15:00.000-08:002004-12-21T13:15:32.683-08:00

Very soon I will be travelling to Philadelphia. While being there I will try to steal the Declaration of Independence and substitute it with this New Declaration. If someone is interested and want to help me, I will be very grateful: “Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this. Her setting out in life, like the rising of a fair morning, was unclouded and promising. Her

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-1103451732097071062004-12-19T11:28:00.000-08:002004-12-19T02:23:18.790-08:00

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A burglar is creeping through a dark house. Suddenly he hears a voice: "Jesus is watching!" He stops very still, but hears nothing else, so he goes on. Then he hears the voice again: "Jesus is watching!" All is silent, so he continues. The voice comes again, "Jesus is watching!" and as his eyes adjust, he sees a parrot in a cage. "Was that you talking?" he asks the parrot, and the bird says "yes

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Almost half of America is against Bush. Remember it. I am sorry for them, and apparently they're sorry for me. Everybody is sorry, then. This seems comforting.

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Which one(s) is (are) correct? Which one(s) would you use? Stumbled upon Stumbled accross Stumbled on Stumbled into Stumbled in Stumbled onto

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-1101911208062760492004-12-01T15:25:00.000-08:002004-12-01T06:26:48.063-08:00

I just stumbled in the Guardian Weblog's Report. Interesting. It will take some time to read and comment it, but I will manage soon enough. Wait, and you will see.

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-1101650688712347402004-11-30T16:25:00.000-08:002004-11-30T07:52:24.033-08:00

A significant part of my prospective work will be about teaching my native language, at least for a few years... This is why a significant part of this blog, from now on, will be dedicated to reflection on language teaching and learning. An interesting and new tool that can be used in language class is a collective blog. Jason M. Ward, a teacher of English as a foreign language discuss its

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From Emily Dickinson: How much the present moment means To those who've nothing more - The Fop - the Carp - the Atheist - Stake an entire store Upon a Moment's shallow Rim While their commuted Feet The Torrents of Eternity Do all but inundate - Com'è importante il momento presente per quelli che non hanno altro - Il Frivolo, il Pedante, l'Ateo si giocano tutto ciò che hanno sul sottile

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-1101219778707382222004-11-23T17:25:00.000-08:002004-11-23T08:44:10.746-08:00

In 23 november 1889 the "ancestor" of the modern jukebox made his debut in San Francisco. The Nickel-in-the-Slot machine was placed at the Royale Palais Saloon. This event is so distant in time that one might think that inside the machine there was a slavelike musician who played tunes on request. Actually it was a coin-operated Edison phonograph with no amplification. To hear the music people

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-1100977263897636242004-11-20T10:55:00.000-08:002004-11-20T11:31:54.450-08:00

Today is Universal Children's Day. These are two poems written by children interned at Terezin Concentration Camp. Something everybody should remember: TEREZIN That bit of filth in dirty walls, And all around barbed wire, And thirty-thousand souls who sleep Who once will wake And once will see Their own blood spilled.

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-1100695318416915932004-11-17T09:23:00.000-08:002004-11-18T11:57:34.150-08:00

It has been a very longtime, but I have been very busy. Now I am here again. I will begin with a post on the English language. To practice and ameliorate my english is one of the main reasons for writing this blog. Today I will introduce to you a list of blogs that can be helpful. Later on I will create a group of link with all of them (I will probably call it The English Language Blogs, or

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-1100807124137949832004-10-17T20:54:00.000-07:002004-11-18T11:54:59.400-08:00

MOVING IN Don't wait for the wind to blow you through the door, If you need help, here is my hand, I said Don't let my walking on the hollow floor Frighten you, only the dark air is dead. People more than things can fill a house. Sit by me on these boxes in the gloom, Here, with our crumbs of living, like a mouse, While the fire burns the strangeness from the

Giorgio Guzzettanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9204477.post-1100806587744500682004-10-17T11:29:00.000-07:002004-11-18T11:53:40.016-08:00

I am not new to the blogworld, but this is the first time I write an English one. Originally I am Italian but I became, I don't know exactly when, sort of bilingual. I lived in England and in the States in different period, and I recently visited South Africa, a fascinating place where I will certainly return. I do Italian and comparative literature research and teaching. Very soon you will be

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