“If you are already strolling in the Jardim da Gulbenkian, why don't you go into the museum for ten minutes?”

“If you are already strolling in the Jardim da Gulbenkian, why don't you go into the museum for ten minutes?”

agarama   May 23, 2021   Comment  

 

“If you are already strolling in the Jardim da Gulbenkian, why don't you go into the museum for ten minutes?”

This morning, the president of the Gulbenkian Foundation, Isabel Mota, introduced the two new museum directors this morning. Benjamin Weil wishes that strolling through the Modern Art Center should be as natural as enjoying the garden. António Filipe Pimentel wants a team with international dialogue

The experience of the last five years, in which the Gulbenkian Museum was linked to the Center for Modern Art (CAM), is definitely buried, Isabel Mota, president of the Gulbenkian Foundation, clarified this morning, at the end of the conference.

The time of the revolt, according to Michel Maffesoli

The time of the revolt, according to Michel Maffesoli

agarama   May 23, 2021   Comment  

 Michel Maffesoli, professor emeritus at Sorbonne and provocative sociologist, known for his theses on the return to communitarianism and the new urban tribes, anticipates in the new book L'Ere des Soulèvements, a future of popular revolts that mark the end of modernity. And he sees in today's democracies, exposed by the pandemic, the maintenance of power by concealing death and fear by a declining elite. We met in Paris for a conversation about this “masked ball turned into macabre dance”.

ichel Maffesoli (1944) has persisted, for decades, an enfant terrible of French sociology, since he published some of the works that ignited great controversy within the community of social sciences, still submitted to the dominant ascendant of Pierre Bourdieu. Titles such as La Violence Totalitaire (1979), L'Ombre de Dionysos (1982) and Le Temps des Tribus (1988) made the date and the vision

Stories of someone who was very close to death and managed to fake it

Stories of someone who was very close to death and managed to fake it

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With the technology of the past few decades, it can seem difficult to find ourselves in a dangerous situation without any assistance - but there are cases like that. The journalist Luís Francisco gathered several stories of survival and rescue in a real “book of adventures”, with a (almost always) happy ending.

They are stories of survival in extreme scenarios: a Portuguese woman who escaped the fury of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004; a fisherman who spent 438 days adrift in the Pacific; a boy who survived eight months in the dense forest on the island of Príncipe with the help of a monkey who picked up coconuts; a man who was buried alive for 27 days in Haiti, who survived by drinking

A stubbornly lonely place

A stubbornly lonely place

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                                      A poetry with a back to vulgarity DR

                        The strangeness treated in poetry as an attempt to know.

 In O Vale da Estranheza, loyalty to the fact will matter less than everything that remains after the factual, missing link - like the ballast on the water, when a stone fell on it. You never even get to do a sketch of a narration. In a way that is not surprising, already in Catarina Costa's debut book we could read: “there is no way to narrate this life” (Marcas de Urze,

The “Grandes Leitores” podcast is a PUBLIC / Antena 3 partnership that you can listen to on the usual platforms, such as Spotify or Apple Podcasts and also on RTP Play.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: learning from the end

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: learning from the end

agarama   May 23, 2021   Comment  

 

An essay by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the New Yorker is now a book. Notes on Mourning: the search for language at the time of the father's death.

"I didn't know that we cried with the muscles." The phrase refers to everything we did not know before someone close to us died. Nigerian-American Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote it after her father's death, the most painful confrontation with the loss that left her “turned inside out, screaming and screaming on the floor.” There is no complacency because as you learn about pain

Spanish writer Francisco Brines, who lived to pay homage to poetry, died

Spanish writer Francisco Brines, who lived to pay homage to poetry, died

agarama   May 23, 2021   Comment  

 

Poet “of emotions and tolerance”, award Cervantes 2020, died at the age of 89.

The Spanish writer Francisco Brines, poet of emotions and tolerance, died this Thursday, at the age of 89, having lived until the last moment with “fullness”, as those who accompanied him to the end remember. Francisco Brines was hospitalized for a surgical intervention the day after the visit of the King and Queen of Spain, who received the Cervantes 2020 prize at his residence on 12 May, which he received with great emotion.

According to the people who accompanied him, that was the last day he felt well, having lived the act with intensity and gratitude. After learning that he had been awarded the Cervantes Prize, Brines celebrated for having achieved with his poetry “a diverse song” and dedicated the prize to his parents who, he said, instilled respect for the unknown, the “best lesson” that led him to love literature. Now, the foundation with his name will be responsible for the perpetuation of his poetic legacy, in the environment that has become his living space, surrounded by more than 30,000 volumes and fragments of art history that the writer acquired throughout his existence.

Brines decided to promote this non-profit entity to preserve its material and poetic legacy and pay "homage to poetry, because poetry, in addition to its aesthetic aspect, is a very illustrative path". The Valencian writer is the creator of an entire catalog of verses full of tolerance where he dissects loneliness, love, time, old age and death.

Brines, one of the last survivors of the "50s Poetic Group", a member of the Royal Spanish Academy - elected in 2001, although he only took office in 2006 - and winner of the Queen Sofia National Ibero-American Poetry Prize, defended the poetry as an “exercise of tolerance”, the result of the reader's emotional identification with the poem, even if its content is alien to his convictions.

In reaction to his disappearance, many have resorted to social media to remember his verses. “We will always carry Dom Francisco Brines in our hearts with the emotion of the unforgettable moments shared a few days ago. He opened his home, his thoughts and his poetry with his great humanity. Thank you, Dom Francisco ”, indicated Casa do Rei through his Twitter account.

The first chapter of The Altruists, Andrew Ridker's debut novel

The first chapter of The Altruists, Andrew Ridker's debut novel

agarama   May 23, 2021   Comment  

 A dark and fun 21st century family saga arrives this Thursday at Portuguese bookstores in an edition of Quetzal. Andrew Ridker, who was born in 1991, was the editor of Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics and teaches creative writing.

THE ALTER FAMILY WAS RIPPED BY FIRE. Throughout the autumn, there were outbreaks, episodes, the kind of uncoordinated omens that only seem ominous a posteriori. In September, Ethan singed his thumb while trying to light a cigarette. After three days, a faulty gas burner caused the kitchen stove to malfunction; the lighter produced an anxious sound, a succession of desperate ticks, before giving rise to