Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Do I Go To The Doctor For Minor Frostbite

Wednesday, July 7: Conversations with Enrique Vila-Matas on Dublinesca



La esperada Semana del Autor del Centro Cultural de España rinde homenaje esta vez al notable Enrique Vila-Matas, quien dialogará con Gabriel Ruiz-Ortega sobre su reciente (y apetitosa) novela Dublinesca .
Aquí los datos y algunas opiniones sobre la novela en España:

Conversando con Enrique Vila-Matas
El escritor y blogger Gabriel Ruiz-Ortega dialogará con Enrique Vila-Matas sobre su esperada nueva novela Dublinesca
Lugar: Auditorio del Cultural Center of Spain in Lima
Date: July 7
Time: 7.30 pm

About Dublinesca :

"A unique novel, a writer always surprising and disconcerting and the largest contributor, with Javier Marias, to open our "modernity" to create a new narrative voice, to integrate to other literatures and out of our worst curse, the traditionalism [...] A novel like Ulysses , Joyce, is a nostalgia for the not lived and a magnificent epic of everyday life. " Juan Antonio Masoliver
Ródenas ( La Vanguardia )

"The most personal book Vila-Matas in which the parody reveals the deepest feelings of the writer to the parents, wife recovered, friendship and literature, with a script that accompanies us like a melody. The book of the decade. " Juan Antonio Masoliver
Ródenas ( La Vanguardia )

" Dublinesca is like a distillation of all that has been building its author along trajectories of the original English narrative of the last two decades. Sense and thoughtful tribute to a city twilight, literature and some of those who explored the limits (Joyce, Beckett), and elegiac tribute to a world that was just "Manuel Rodríguez
Rivero ( The Country )

"One of the heroes of modernism rounder narrative that gave our literature. Dublinesca is an excellent novel, the most ambitious and best of Enrique Vila-Matas. "
Santos Sanz Villanueva ( World )

"The most unique, risky and innovative narrative of those projects have been put in place in Spain in the last three decades, has reached its zenith. Because it is, in short, the latest novel by Enrique Vila-Matas: the zenith, the pinnacle of his work. " J.
Albacete ( The Real Digital )

"Superb history, I believe Enrique Vila-Matas's novel has given his life. " José María Pozuelo
Yvancos (ABC )

Friday, June 18, 2010

Does A Dummy Help Reflux

José Saramago (1922-2010)


He shed tears of Mary, was the first time the husband raised his voice and, without more, began to in order and pack the few family assets, Hurry, hurry, he repeated, as he put the saddle on the donkey and pulled the strap, then, dazed, was filling the bags with what was at hand, mixing it all, before the Mary's surprise, he did not recognize her husband. Were already prepared for the march, just missing ground cover the fire and out, when Joseph, with a signal to women not to come with him, he approached the entrance of the cave and looked out. A gray twilight sky blended with the land. Yet the sun had set, but a dense fog, high enough to not harm the vision of the surrounding countryside, prevented light from spreading. Joseph listened, took a few steps and suddenly you hair stood on end, someone shouted in the village, a high-pitched scream that seemed human voice, and then immediately resounded with the echoes still from hill to hill, a clamor of new screams and cries filled the air, were not the angels crying the misfortune of men, crazy men were under an empty sky. Slowly, as if afraid it might hear, José back to the entrance of the cave and met with Mary, who had not yet complied with the order. All it was shaking, crying, are those asked, but the husband did not respond, he pushed in and released fast-moving earth on fire, what were those cries he inquired Mary, invisible in the dark, and Joseph said after silence, are killing people.

(De The Gospel According to Jesus )

Image: Peter Walter, El Pais.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Dow Jones Global Titans



few days ago a fellow web developers, designers and integrators discussing the existence of Internet Explorer 6.0 (or any other version) and we go back to the 90's, when even sailed in text mode only ( most of them good, I knew the FAX to work) and finally concluded that Internet Explorer was the worst thing that could have happened to www certainly all technical details and elements that drive him back insecure nightmare many, however much all that no one understands and because it still comes embedded in the operating system many people are using and what is worse believe it is all there. For this reason we dared to seek a comparison with religion (any religion) because in most cases these issues arouses passion could reach levels of violence (verbal and non-bloody as in other religions).


Any thoughts?