Giovanni Verga: The She-Wolf, la Lupa
GIOVANNI VERGA – She was tall and lean; but she had a firm, full bust, and yet she was no longer young; her complexion was brunette, but pallid as if she had always suffered from —> Prosegui lettura >>
Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev: The Revolutionist
BY MIKHAIL PETROVICH ARTSYBASHEV — I. Gabriel Andersen, the teacher, walked to the edge of the school garden, where he paused, undecided what to do. Off in the distance, two miles away, the woods hung like bluish lace —> Prosegui lettura >>
Lucretia P. Hale: A place for Oscar
LUCRETIA P. HALE — “I don’t like tiresome fables,” said Jack, throwing down an old book in which he had been trying to read; “it is so ridiculous making the beasts talk. Of course they —> Prosegui lettura >>
Anton Chekhov: Such is Fame!
ANTON CHEKHOV – The passenger of the first class, who had just finished dinner, in the railway station, was a trifle drowsy; he lay down upon the velvet sofa, stretched himself out with a grunt —> Prosegui lettura >>
Koizumi Yakumo / Lafcadio Hearn: Horai
KOIZUMI YAKUMO / LAFCADIO HEARN – Blue vision of depth lost in height,—sea and sky interblending through luminous haze. The day is of spring, and the hour morning. Only sky and sea,—one azure enormity… In the —> Prosegui lettura >>
Katherine Mansfield: The Wind Blows
KATHERINE MANSFIELD — Suddenly—dreadfully—she wakes up. What has happened? Something dreadful has happened. No—nothing has happened. It is only the wind shaking the house, rattling the windows, banging a piece of iron on the roof —> Prosegui lettura >>
Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Jemina, The Mountain Girl
FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD – This don’t pretend to be “Literature.” This is just a tale for red-blooded folks who want a story and not just a lot of “psychological” stuff or “analysis.” Boy, you’ll love —> Prosegui lettura >>
Giovanni Verga / Lawrence: Liberty
GIOVANNI VERGA / (Lawrence) – They unfurled a red-white-and-green handkerchief from the church-tower, they rang the bells in a frenzy, and they began to shout in the village square, “Hurray for liberty!” Like the sea in —> Prosegui lettura >>
Vicente Huidobro: Necessità di un’estetica poetica composta dai poeti
VICENTE HUIDOBRO — Proprio come le leggi della chimica devono essere stabilite da un chimico, e quelle dell’astronomia o della fisiologia devono essere tracciate da un astronomo o un fisiologo, le leggi della poesia non —> Prosegui lettura >>
Vicente Huidobro: Altazor – Canto III
Rompere le legature delle vene I lacci della respirazione e le catene Dagli occhi sentieri di orizzonti Fiore proiettato in cieli uniformi L'anima pavimentata di ricordi Come stelle tagliate nel vento Il mare è un —> Prosegui lettura >>
