Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Poems That Relate To Secret Life Of Bees

" Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault by MARÍA SANZ AIXA

-Abuelita, ¡qué brazos tan grandes tienes!
-¡Son para abrazarte mejor, hija mía!


El nuevo Ilustrado de Nórdica Libros es ‘Caperucita roja’ , un libro que será delicia y joya para todo bibliófilo, pues en él se reúnen tres versiones de este cuento. La original escrita por el francés Charles Perrault en 1697 con un final drástico; la versión de 1812 de los hermanos Grimm que es la large known for children and adults with the end softened, and finally the version in verse he wrote in 1800 the German also Ludwig Tieck, which is closer to that of Perrault that the Brothers Grimm and is less popular.
Three versions are a jewel for the bibliophile and more if we add the variety of illustrations, as this issue of Nordic books 'Red Riding Hood' is eclectic up in their artwork, for it Augustine has had Comotto, Marta Gómez-Pintado, Ana Juan, Alicia Martínez, Verónica Moretta, Elena Odriozola, Luis Scafati, Naomi Villamuza and Javier Zabala, and his own particular vision and the story and its protagonist.

Innocence before the tragedy. Eclecticism illustrations. The Little Red Book of Norse winks to diversity. I said, a jewel for book lovers.
© MARÍA SANZ AIXA






(Illustrated by Ana Juan Red Riding Hood, Noemi and Alicia Martínez Villamuza)

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Bosch Dishwasher Won't Run

"The Seagull" by Sándor Márai by MARÍA SANZ AIXA


... They are full of energy, look how hard living.
(...) In fact, gulls displayed great energy and is clearly not ask what the meaning of life (...)

again have another novel in the hands of Sándor Márai is to have a certainty, is known as a reader graceful. Salamandra published in these days of spring: 'The Seagull' . An intense story that runs in the form of a dance of two, a sensual dance and desperate. Like a last dance, a last night. 'The Seagull' is a monologue that is produced in a Hungarian night while Europe is immersed in the war. A monologue, rarely interrupted by summoned Aino Laine, the Finnish girl, who ran for the morning ahead of the protagonist, putting at risk the apparent calm of this, his calmness, serenity, and the routine that is involved, because he knows he is no longer young, who is fifty years old and for him it means give up living certain passions, love some, certain feelings and Finnish girl shakes her quiet and orderly world.
'The Seagull' portrays the heart of old Europe, but further portrays the soul of man, in a 187-page hypnotic monologue, a monologue full of reflections intense that the reader will check your level of maturity, share opinions, smiling to himself, look up the book to think about their own self, and holds more than once in the head. 'The Seagull' is Sándor Márai in pure and that's always a safe bet.
"Astrologers today are no crown on the head and most are nothing more than diligent mathematicians say that there are three facts that the free will of man can not change: birth, death and love ... These three facts are more powerful than any human will and strength. Because there are couples, Aino Laine, two people swept away in space towards each other by a single wave, which can not be avoided, they can not escape each other, or going north or west, nor to India or the grave ... must come back in space and time to meet. "

© MARIA SANZ AIXA