Macumbeira
a Reader's diary
Sunday, December 31, 2023
If Not, Winter - Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson, Folio Society edition
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I am very happy with my purchase of this beautiful edition. The letterpress quality and the cream - colored paper are just splendid. Hom...
Thursday, December 29, 2022
Reading Oscars 2022
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All along the year 2022, I crawled slowly further over the lines of Dante Alighieri's Commedia . O ne canto each evening before bedtim...
Monday, June 6, 2022
Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine
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The loss of irreplaceable books has recently been on my mind. While visiting the fair for Artbooks in Ghent, I was attracted by a stand wit...
Sunday, June 5, 2022
"The Poetics" by Aristotle
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"How to tell a Story, An ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers" is nothing less than Aristotle's cl...
Thursday, May 26, 2022
The Twilight World by Werner Herzog
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It is not really surprising that one grows trust - issues after fighting 5 years of intense war. So when Hiroo Onada, a Japanese officer o...
Monday, January 31, 2022
Kramberger with Monkey by Rick Harsch
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picture by Natasha Juhnov There was such a man. Three decades ago, there was, in far-away Slovenia, a self-made businessman with preside...
Sunday, January 23, 2022
"Anabasis" by Xenophon
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Lately I have been reading, enjoying and schooling myself with the 2400 year old "Anabasis" written by Xenophon. The story relat...
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