Archive for November 28th, 2009
28
Nov
09
Mind your own business.
“Why this world: A biography of Clarice Lispector” was written by Benjamin Moser. Edited in the United States in November this year, the biography shows Brazilian Literature to the world – and a little of Lispector literature.
“This books”, says Benjamin, “is important to Literature – especially to Brazilian Literature. Clarice was a great writer, a world writer. This biography is a study about her life, her literature and a little of Brazilian Literature – which is wonderful”.
28
Nov
09
Film review: Scent of a Woman
Al Pacino is Frank Slade, a painful blind Army officer. Chris O’Donnell is Charlie Simms, a student that is contracting to look after Frank. They travel to New York to put into practice an old dream of Frank. With Charlie in New York, Frank meets the happiness after accident that blind him.
The story “The Stolen White Elephant”, by Mark Twain, talks about a royal elephant that disappears and nobody knows what happened to it.
A man travels with his servants and the officers and helpers of the elephant, on a ship from Sian. The man needs to give the present (the elephant) to the Queen of England, but it is stolen. So the chief of the New York Police Force, Inspector Blunt, is called to help to find the white elephant – and many things will happen.
The Stolen White Elephant is a interesting detective story.
28
Nov
09
Plath’s biography
Sylvia Plath was born in October 27, 1932 and died in February 11, 1963.
She was an American poet, novelist, children’s author, and short story author.
Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The book’s protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is a bright, ambitious student at Smith College who begins to experience a mental breakdown while interning for a fashion magazine in New York. The plot parallels Plath’s experience interning at Mademoiselle magazine and subsequent mental breakdown and suicide attempt.
Along with Anne Sexton, Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry initiated by Robert Lowell and W. D. Snodgrass.
