miércoles, 2 de noviembre de 2011

Diet for a Small Planet.

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Twenty years and three million copies later, the extraordinary book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of...
lunes, 17 de octubre de 2011

A Clockwork Orange.

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A dystopian novella written by Anthony Burgess back in 1962 that would become internationally known thanks to the film by the same title d...
viernes, 23 de septiembre de 2011

Driven to Extinction. The Impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity.

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Climate change is real, and so is the threat it poses to the diversity of plants and animals that inhabit Earth. Yet debate on this topic h...
martes, 20 de septiembre de 2011

The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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A classic that I had never read until now. I must say that watching Dorian Gray , the 2009 adaptation directed by Oliver Parker , has somet...
viernes, 16 de septiembre de 2011

Conexiones entre misticismo oriental y Física contemporánea.

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Racionero trata en el capítulo 10 de este libro sobre las conexiones entre el misticismo oriental y los últimos descubrimientos de la Física...

Pintura tántrica: pintura como música.

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Interesantes reflexiones acerca de la pintura tántrica y su conexión con la pintura abstracta: La pintura tantra se tiene que ver, por tanto...

Tantra: el yoga del sexo.

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Del amor sufí, Racionero pasa al tantra : Resulta que en India también hay "underground" y que los contraculturales de la secta ba...

Amor y sufismo.

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Racionero nos introduce a los sufis como intoductores de la idea de amor en nuestra civilización, defensores de una filosofía basada en el ...
lunes, 12 de septiembre de 2011

"The Garden of Love": against the asceticism of the Church.

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In The Garden of Love , Blake explicitly criticizes the asceticism of the Church: I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had see...

Humble lilly.

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Humble, humble lilly: The modest Rose puts forth a thorn; The humble Sheep, a threatning horn; While the Lilly white shall in Love delight, ...

"My Pretty Rose Tree"

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Another favorite: A flower was offerd to me: Such a flower as May never bore. But I said I've a Pretty Rose-tree, And I passed the sweet...

"The Sick Rose": satyre or simple love poem?

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According to the literary critics who edited this book for the Spanish publisher Cátedra, the poem titled "The Sick Rose" is a ...

"Holy Thursday" or the cry against poverty and despair.

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William Blake writes when the Industrial Revolution is changing England, destroying the old peasants' lives and starting to lay the fo...

Favorite poems from "Songs of Innocence".

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The two poems I like the most from Songs of Innocence can be found towards the end of the book. The first one is titled The Blossom : Merr...
sábado, 10 de septiembre de 2011

Canciones de Inocencia y de Experiencia.

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Este volumen bilingüe recoge en un mismo libro dos obras del poeta romántico William Blake que fueron publicadas juntas en vida del autor: l...