May 2014 archive

WOMEN AND THE NOVEL

  By: Lida PrypchanEnglish writer Virginia Woolf deals with this subject in her book A Room of Her Own. The title can have a variety of meanings for us, such as women and what they are like, or women and the novels they write, or women and the fantasies that have been written about them; …

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HAPPY DAYS

  By Lida Prypchan After waiting so long, living the life of a recluse, insipid and pointless, Mr. H. had reached the moment of wisdom. He could understand the feelings of his wife, the wise decision not to waste energy in advance, and most importantly, the moment in which a man knows who he is. …

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BEHIND THE DOOR

  By Lida Prypchan (“Behind the Door,” a film directed by L. Cavani) Barbara could not bring herself to discuss her fears behind closed doors.  This failure brought with it two surprises: one that led to her divorce and another which cost her her life, a link to sleeping with death and a connection between …

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THE DISCREET CHARM OF CLANDESTINENESS

  By Lida Prypchan (Based on the movie “The Deputy” or “The Immoral Life of a Public Man,”directed by Eloy de la Iglesia and starring Luisa San José and José Sacristan) Accompanied by the same as always (loneliness), the congressman is thinking; a transcendental fact manages to make him mature more in a few hours …

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THE CAGED MONKEY

  By Lida Prypchan Two blocks from the house is a zoo. Every Sunday, my brothers, cousins, parents, and other visiting family members and I go to the zoo. After all, there’s nothing else to do apart from looking at each other’s faces and we prefer to go and see the faces of the animals. …

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DANTE AND THE DIVINE COMEDY

By Lida Prypchan     The great agent of progress in the world is pain and the unhappy being that wishes to develop themselves and cannot find easy means to do so.  Renán Over six hundred years ago, a Florentine man far from his country and at the end of the day of a life …

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Freud and Art

  By Lida Prypchan The genesis and content of a number of disciplines or activities outside the scope of medicine has repeatedly been psychoanalyzed.  In this regard, the attention of psychoanalysts has addressed the history of religions, prehistory, mythology and, especially, literature and art.  In this task, what psychoanalysts seek is to explain the psychological …

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