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Reading and contemplation -- Seeing and using : art and craftsmanship -- At table and in bed -- Iniquitous symmetries -- The new analogy : poetry and technology -- The verbal contract -- Picasso : hand-to-hand combat with painting -- Literature and literalness -- Latin-American poetry -- A literature of convergences -- Quevedo, Heraclitus, and a handful of sonnets -- The tradition of the Haiku -- Blank thought -- Constellations : Breton and Mirao -- Two centuries of American painting (1776-1971) -- The tree of life.
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Voyages and travelsTravelArtsEnglish literatureEnglish essaysWoolf, virginia, 1882-1941
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Virginia Woolf
25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ([Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf).) [Comment from Ursula Le Guin on The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice): > You can't write science fiction well if you haven't read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven't read anything else. Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the ge…
Octavio Paz
31 March 1914 – 19 April 1998
[Octavio Paz Lozano][1] (México, DF, 31 de marzo de 1914 - 19 de abril de 1998) fue un poeta, escritor, ensayista y diplomático mexicano, fue miembro de El Colegio Nacional y ganador del premio Nobel de Literatura (1990). Se le considera uno de los más grandes escritores del siglo XX y uno de los grandes poetas hispanos de todos los tiempos. Fue un escritor prolífico cuya obra abarcó varios géneros, entre los que sobresalieron textos poéticos, el ensayo y traducciones diversas. [1]: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio_Paz
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