"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

Incontro perturbante

 

T’ho incrociata alla stazione
che inseguivi il tuo profumo
presa in trappola da un tailleur grigio fumo
i giornali in una mano e nell’altra il tuo destino
camminavi fianco a fianco al tuo assassino.

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Ben Okri’s The Famished Road

Azaro is an abiku, a spirit child that sneaks his way into his mother’s womb only to enjoy a brief stay into our world and then die. They’re considered malign spirits and the grief they cause is immense, hence the tradition of scarring the faces

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Snow Country

Sometimes you read a book with beautiful prose and well-constructed characters but, when you put it down, you couldn’t tell the plot if your life depended upon it. Kawabata Yasunari‘s Snow Country is one of these books. Born in 1899, the author won the Nobel

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3 Comments
  • HowlingWolf
    Posted at 07:46h, 24 October Reply

    Confesso, non ho realizzato che era “Se ti tagliassero a pezzetti” finchè non sono andato a controllare, ma sapevo già dopo i primi due versi di dover andare a spulciare tra le canzoni del Faber…

  • HowlingWolf
    Posted at 07:47h, 24 October Reply

    (ritento, il primo tentativo non è andato a buon fine)

    Confesso, non ho realizzato che era “Se ti tagliassero a pezzetti” finchè non sono andato a controllare, ma sapevo già dopo i primi due versi di dover andare a spulciare tra le canzoni del Faber…

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 08:39h, 24 October Reply

    La piattaforma splinder è sempre peggio, sia per la gestione dei commenti che per il caricamento dei post. Non parliamo poi della funzione di ricerca, che prima funzionava male e ora non funziona proprio. Mah…

    A parte questo, è uno stile decisamente inconfondibile, n’est-ce pas?

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