07/10/2010. Today was a special day for Spanish letters. It has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Mario Vargas Llosa and therefore the recognition of an extraordinary writer, member of the so called Latin American boom, and restless world citizen. As a Latin American and as a reader we welcome more. Vargas Llosa has created extraordinary works, and others less so, but certainly one of the most often re-read the essay entitled “García Márquez, a history of deicide” (Monte Avila Editores, 1971). It is a gem which makes a detailed analysis of the magical realism of Garcia Marquez’s narrative, and especially his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Here are some lines that work great: “One Hundred Years of Solitude is a complete novel mostly because it puts into practice the utopian supplanting of God all describe a total reality, face the real reality, an image that is its expression and negation “.

25/09/2010. Read Confessions of Lev Tolstoy (Cliff, 2008): “My actions, whatever they are, sooner or later fall into oblivion, and I no longer exist.” What’s toil, for how can a person live and not realize it? That is amazing! can only live for the duration of the intoxication of life, but when one takes off drunkenness is impossible not to see that everything is a hoax, a hoax stupid!

16/09/2010. Delicious reading some interviews with Bertrand Russell, in a booklet entitled Speaks His Mind, published by the World Publishing Company in 1960. There are thirteen dialogues that were filmed for television (BBC) in the spring of 1959. The moderator was Wooddrow Wyatt.

Here’s a small sample: “The purpose of a philosopher should not be changing the world, but to understand, which is exactly the opposite of what Marx said.”

05/09/2010. I’m really waiting to start reading the book: what I mean when I say run, the Japanese author Haruki Murakami (Tusquets, 2010). From where does this curiosity? … Look at this sentence on pages 56 to 57: “It’s just my opinion, but in life, except for that time when you’re really young, should be prioritized. Must be shared orderly energy. If, before reaching a certain age, do not leave within you installed such a system, life had just become monotonous and lacking axis. ”

04/09/2010. “Do not celebrate your joy dedicating to fear” ~ # Fariñas quote

04/09/2010. Phrase Mark Strand: “The search for lightness as a reaction to the weight of living!, Cited in the novel Dublinesca, Vila-Matas, 2010.

02/09/2010. In our hands a copy of the book in English: twitter power 2.0, Joel Comm. I’ll read it quickly and I will make some comments. It has 14 chapters, all relating to twitter. There is one that promises: The Art of the Tweet.

30/08/2010. I can not still suggest reading this great book of interviews with Umberto Eco and Jean Claude Carriere, No end to the books, (Lumen, 2010). At some point in the book are talking about the current learning speed, as fast as CoCoCo fall into disuse, and then Jean-Claude-Carriere says that in the worlds that define primitive, do not change, the old retain power it is they who transmit knowledge to their children. In contrast, when the world is in permanent digital revolution, in this case are the children who teach their parents electronically. And the children will learn from them? He asks.

Later states categorically: “when the state is too powerful, silent poetry. When the state is in crisis, as happened in Italy after the war, then art is free to say what to say.”

25/8/2010. Reading: No end to the books (Lumen, 2010) … wonderful. Umberto Eco and Jean Claude Carriere tell us why the book will always be there for us. When asked if the book will disappear because of the advent of the Internet, Umberto Eco replied: “Either the book is still support for reading or invent something that looks like what the book has never ceased to be even before the invention of printing. ” Then ends with: “… the book is like a spoon, hammer, wheel, scissors. Once they have invented, you can not do anything better.”