Monday 14 February 2011

Hi everyone: how was your week end ? Mine was fun because monday morning I stayed in bed until 9 , reading A friend of Kafka, by Isaac Bashevis Singer, a jewish author that writes on life most amazing experiences, both great and horrible, also misterious. I have read most of his work, mostly big fat novels that are very interesting, a real portrait on how first and second world wars affected and changed central Europe, their societies and minorities. Singer won the Nobel Price, not just because most of his work was written in Yiddish but because of the depth, contadictory caracters of his short stories and novels, the stories twists, sometimes very dramatic, often humoristic. There is magic in the way Singer reinterprets ancient myths in contemporary history. His literature has a scent of spiritualism that has to do a lot with human nature in a not religious way. Perhaps some of you have seen a movie called "Enemies, a love story", well, this title says it all. If you ever find his works read them, you will enjoy and suffer them intensely. See you all tomorrow, maysa

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