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Holidays With Friends And Books Books BOX 1 January – Belgrade Youth Centre
The end of another year is approaching and let’s try to end it beautifuly. Although this year’s edition of the Holiday with Friends will take place without accompanying programs, promotions and book signings, organisers have tried to give you, in cooperation with more than twenty publishing houses, the opportunity to buy / or donate book (s) with 10-50% discounts.
Illustrating Martín Fierro
until 28 February – Institut Cervantes The song by Argentine writer, soldier, journalist and politician José Hernández “Martín Fierro” was published in 1872. This epic is composed of two parts: “El Gaucho Martín Fierro” and “La vuelta de Martín Fierro”. Today, this famous work is considered one of the most significant expressions of Argentine literature, it has been translated into more than 30 languages, including Serbian. The Embassy of Argentina and the Instituto Cervantes in Belgrade present 13 lithographs made by painter, draftsman and engraver Carlos Alonso (Tunuyán, Mendoza, 1929) for the publishing house Emecé, after winning an illustration contest for Martín Fierro and another work by Don Quixote in the 1950s. de la Mancha. The circulation included 2,000 copies with 13 lithographs and 67 drawings. Then, in 1963, he illustrated postcards for scenes from “Don Quixote” for the Soviet Union, along with other great artists such as Gustave Doré, Honore Daumier and Pablo Picasso. In the works of Carlos Alonso, there are scars from the military dictatorship (in 1977 he was exiled in Spain), as well as political engagement, not neglecting the eroticism noticeable in the second part of his artistic production. Alonso’s work constantly points to the paradox between subjectivity and rationality, chaos and order, between pleasure and discipline.
Thomas Dylan Verses On Film 26 January, 7 pm, SKC
See you in the bookstore, the hall of the Belgrade Youth Center and at www.beopolis.rs. P.S. Here is a list of publishers and discounts, so you slowly start preparing. 30% -50% discount: Book Factory 25% discount: Plato Publishing 20% discount: Rašić Literary Workshop, Desk, Geopoetics, Athos, L.O.M., Karpos, Contrast, Bukefal, Faculty of Media and Communication, Komiko, Arete, Fedon, Hoplit 15% discount: Booka, Futura publications, PPM Enclave, Psychopolis 10% discount: Dereta, Clio, XX century
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The sixth edition of the cycle “Performing Poetry on Film” is dedicated to the verses of Dylan Thomas. It builds on an analysis of film performances of poetry by T. S. Eliot, William Blake, William Butler Yates, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walt Whitman. One segment of the films from which the inserts will be shown is dedicated to his personality, ie in a documentary or somewhat fictionalized way it deals with his nature, life habits and approach to poetry, with a clear emphasis on the specifics of the way he performed his poetry. The second segment includes those film narratives in which his name is only mentioned, and which are entangled around some specific verses, such as “and death will have no dominion,” or “does not go quietly into that mild night.” In Soderbergh’s version of “Solaris”, the constant return of a dead unrepentant darling, for which the protagonist finds an explanation in the influence of the planet in whose orbit the space station in which the action takes place, is hinted at by Thomas Dylan’s verses he utters at a real meeting. In John Smith’s Dangerous Minds, verses of disapproval of death are read by analogy with the ethics of street fighting, which is the reality of teenagers growing up in a small provincial town in California, where racial segregation, poverty and complete distrust of society prevail.
