Oskar Kokoschka, Anschluss-Alice in wonderland, 1942 Sit down and bargain All you like grizzled old foxes We’ll wall you up in a splendid palace With food, wine, good beds and a good fire Provided that you discuss, negotiate For our and your children’s lives May all the wisedom of the universe Converge to bless your …
Primo Levi – Canto dei morti invano / Song of those who Died in Vain Read More »
Caspar David Friedrich, Sunset (Brothers), c.1835 Happy the man who’s come to port, who leaves behind him seas and storms, whose dreams are dead or never born; who sits and drinks by the fire at the beer hall in Bremen, and is at peace. Happy the man like a flame gone out, happy the man …
Marc Chagall, The birthday, 1915 Be patient, my tired lady, be patient for the stuff of the words, for your traveling companions, including me, since I am touched you in chance. Accept, after many years, few crabby lines for your round birthday. Be patient, my impatient lady, you milled, macerated, skinned, you cut yourself a …
Primo Levi is remembered for being a partisan, a Holocaust survivor and a writer. In 1943 he was arrested and deported to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, from which he managed to escaped. His most famous novel (If this is a man, 1947) tells the terrible atrocities seen and suffered. He adheres to Neorealism and …
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