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#17 Serendipity
“The world is ruled by chaos. The unforeseeable lies forever in ambush” (publisher’s note). It is only after suffering great pain and distress following on an unexpected discovery beneath the blue cover of a notebook or experiencing great fear after a hearty laugh elicited by a scene in a silent movie has faded away that the lives of the lead...
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Nov 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: ambush, brooklyn follies, chaos, city of glass, discoveries, einaudi, endings, exploring, life, lilia ambrosi, new york trilogy, oracle night, pain, paul auster, quinn | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
In front a cup of coffee.
“I learnt to paint like Raphael, now I have to learn to draw like a child.” Pablo Picasso
I’ve often wondered whether art and life are really related. Some artists have indeed turned their lives into their best work of art. But what a
price some have had to pay for their commitment and approach to life! Oscar...
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Nov 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: absolute beauty, acknowledge, age, appearance, art, beauty, caravaggio, country, deep meaning, desires, details, dreams, emotional content, endless job, eternal damnation | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
After graduating in architecture from Turin Polytechnic, in 1947 Ettore Sottsass jr. (Innsbruck, 1917) began working in Milan, where he opened his first design studio. Son of an architect and an architect himself, from the start he backed up his formal education and training with practical experiences in the visual arts field, trying out his ar...
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Nov 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: ambitious, bach, child, company, creative act, creativity, curage, curiosity, despair, development, einstein, emotions, ettore sottsass, everyday requirements, feelings | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
“What the hell is it?”. American historian and writer Paul Collins’ literary travels, published in Italy by Adelphi, usually start from this question, which struck him when he came across some oddity found in an old book. A cultured, meticulous curiosity rooted in the need to understand what has been buried in and by history. To mark a passio...
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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aberration, abilities, autism, autistic people, beta testing, book, characters, company, curiosity, exploration, family, feelings, genetic and societal forces, history, humanity | Leave A Comment »
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#24 Self Portrait
Your short stories frame the fascinating even if painful contrast between tradition and modernity. Do you recognise yourself in this contrast?
India is a very old culture, and the eternal continuum between tradition, the past, and the present is something that is present in all Indians. There is no clear defining line that separates the two; India...
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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: bangalore, children, conflict, contrast, culture, everyday, experience, explore, family, human, india, indians, lavanya sankaran, life, literature | Leave A Comment »
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#24 Self Portrait
Describing Luis Sepúlveda is no easy matter. Here’s a man who in his lifetime has been a novelist, poet, playwright, both for the stage and radio; a man who was one of Salvador Allende’s personal bodyguards; a man who has been a guerrilla fighter in many conflicts in different South American countries; a man who has travelled the world as UNES...
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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: activists, chile, cigars, cliches, conflicts, cuba, der spiegel, dreamer, environment, fair, feel, forests, galileo, greenpeace, guerrilla | Leave A Comment »
