Roberto Bolaño

we would also play chess furiously, inventing (so we thought) new chess variations and talk about books and again drinking chicha, an andean fermented maize beverage, in our “Chicherias.” Each sip of chicha went along with our thanks to the Inca gods, (mainly the sun) and the mountains, Apus as we call them. We would start drinking chicha by spilling it to the ground as a salutation to the Inca deities. It was a ritual, our own Andean cultural trait. The bookstores and streets frequented by the savage detectives in Mexico City: libreria del sotano, Libreria Baudelaire, Libreria Francesca and avenida insurgents, or the streets, calle Corazon, Calle Anahuac, calle Bucareli and of course the bar called la encrusijada veracruzana , that Roberto Bolano (Arturo Belano) and Mario Santiago Papasquiaro ((Ulises Lima) mention in the book, were not the bookstores, streets or bars of our city in the Andes, but it didn’t matter. We were similarly curious and exploring like our Mexican counterparts, walking a similar youthful awakening. So there in the highlands of Peru our young souls were not much different like, lets say, from other literary rebellious characters. Holden Caufield of the Catcher of the Rye is an example. We were all searching in Cusco and Mexico City or as is the case of the savage detectives, for a missing poet. They would discuss their search for the great poet amid mezcal or tequila at, more likely, la Encrusijada Veracruzana . Our world in Cusco was not…

Crystal Allen, author of How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy is trying to portray teenage boy Lamar Washington as a confident self-proclaimed maddest, baddest, most spectacular bowler ever at Striker’s Bowling Paradise. Lamar’s summer is about to begin and with it comes the best bowling games, the opportunity in getting a summer job, and will finally get the girl of his dreams. Not to mention that his bowling idol Bubba Sanders is going to make an appearance at his favorite bowling…

With mainland Europe left in ruins after war, civilians of the devastated countries sought to rebuild their cities, and return everything to normal. This attempt of normalisation is what drives the story lines of both Primo Levi’s ‘The Reawakening’ and Roberto Rossellini’s ‘Germany Year Zero,’ as the characters in both seek to make things as they were before the war. What differs between the two stories is how the characters went about the process of normalisation, and how each story arc…

La Vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful) is a movie about a man named Guido who tries to shelter his son Giosue from the violence during the World War II. The story is jagged and rough to the audience because it shows the problem of the people during the world war. While the movie also shows gentle and happiness to the viewers because of Guido’s sense of humor. La Vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful) is an Italian movie which is directed by Roberto Benigni. Roberto Benigni who was the director of the…

Cinema Paradiso and Life is Beautiful In Life is Beautiful, Guido is a portrait of a very positive character, he celebrates the life with humor and laugh. Although, life comes with many turns and presents him with possibilities of happiness and sorrow, Guido always looks upon hope. He has moments of serendipity when he is mistakenly saluted as a king and he starts pretending that he is a prince. The incident happens when his car takes a wrong turn and overtakes the arrival of the royal king…

The Life of Roberto Clemente Roberto Clemente was born as Roberto Clemente Walker on August 18, 1934, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was the last of six children to Melchor Clemente and his wife Dona Luisa. Roberto Clemente was married to Vera Clemente and they had three sons. Roberto Clemente mother was very religious, she often fed the poor children that would come over and play with Roberto and his siblings. Roberto parents instilled in him the value of hard work, respect, dignity, and…

Life is Beautiful by Robert Benigni is a romantic war movie. When a Jewish librarian, Guido becomes victims of the Holocaust with his son, he tells his son their playing a certain game, when reality is fatally different. With humor and imagination he uses these techniques to protect his son from the danger Nazi concentration camps. Although the film won several Oscars’, many critics who accused the production to have falsely depiction of the Holocaust, unrealistic plot and comedy attacked…

Pastime” sport as baseball. “In 1960, the great Roger Kahn wrote in Sport magazine that ‘There is no denying America’s love for baseball, but increasingly the greater excitement seems to be coming from football fields, and that is where it’s likely to be coming in the future.” (Barra, 2013) Within the 1960’s there were many players that made the game roar into the 1970’s. Some often refer to baseball in the 1960’s as the “Golden Era of the Game” (Overfield, Adomites, Puff, Davids, 2013) Some…

When Monsters Attack Every second of every day, a monster enters my body. The monsters come in all forms, shapes, and sizes. Some days the monsters are subtle, playing with my thoughts, filling the positive ones with harsh, negative thoughts instead. Other days, ferocious, breath- sucking, light dimming, vein shrinking monsters come in to achieve their desired harm. Three specific monsters have found their home in my life, and their names are Anxiety, Insecurity, and Fear. The first…

Life is beautiful is a film about a man named Guido Orefice, his wife Dora, his son Giosuè, and Guido’s uncle Eliseo. His family is sent to a concentration camp. Guido uses his humor to hide the horror of the camp by playing a game with his son. Critics of the film say that the film is not showing the full picture of the holocaust. Proponents of the film said that film is portraying the Holocaust, this way to have a broader audience. Roberto Benigni’s use of comedy is effective in portraying…