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June 2009

Tributo a la estupidez

Me acabo de enterar que han cerrado la Sala Margot Benacerraf del Ateneo de Caracas. Es difícil poner en palabras la tristeza que esta noticia me deja. Las razones, si es que cabe la palabra, tienen que ver con la decisión de expulsar al Ateneo de su sede para ceder …

Celebrating the book I have never read

Bloggers usually post about the books they have read. Today, June 16 or Bloomsday, I prefer to post about the book I have never read, though I have really tried… so many times. James Joyce‘s Ulysses is one of the great novels of the 20th Century but, at the same …