by Pier Marton | Sep 13, 2010 | Art, Books, Ego, France, Highlights, Humor, Ideas, Mystery
A jewel of a book that conveys some of the energy behind Satie, Jarry, Apollinaire and Douanier Rousseau. This is his obituary in the New York Times. Were he not a satrap of the College of Pataphysics (“The Science of Imaginary Solution”/”The Science...
by Pier Marton | Aug 31, 2010 | Books, Ideas, Magyar, Theater
Eszmélet/Consciousness/La Conscience Both, the poet, and much later the actor, parallel tragic ends… An example of prosody for my non-Hungarian speaking students! Translated by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner Consciousness Eszmélet 1. The dawn dissevers...
by Pier Marton | Aug 31, 2010 | Books, Death, Eco, Hispanic, Human Rights, Native
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by Pier Marton | Aug 30, 2010 | Antisemitism, Books, Death, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Judaism, Media, Spectacle, Theater
On target, from the Daily Show. With his website here. His view on writing: “Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it’s impossible, it’s like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it’s done. And by the time you...
by Pier Marton | Aug 18, 2010 | Antisemitism, Books, History, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Politics, Shoah
“I am both writing in and about the tradition and spirit of Jewish cosmopolitanism: caught somewhere between Marx’s ‘ruthless criticism of everything existing’; pil-pul; zahor!; bearing critical witness; social responsibility; and perhaps a certain davka”....
by Pier Marton | Aug 14, 2010 | Books, Humor, Women
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