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on 29.10.2019 at 15:22

📚În apărarea ficțiunii

Un eseu foarte frumos al lui Zadie Smith despre puterea și frumusețea ficțiunii, despre limbaj, despre lumile și contradicțiile care populează mintea unui scriitor.

Fiction suspected that there is far more to people than what they choose to make manifest. Fiction wondered what likeness between selves might even mean, given the profound mystery of consciousness itself, which so many other disciplines—most notably philosophy—have probed for millennia without reaching any definitive conclusions. Fiction was suspicious of any theory of the self that appeared to be largely founded on what can be seen with the human eye, that is, those parts of our selves that are material, manifest, and clearly visible in a crowd. Fiction—at least the kind that was any good—was full of doubt, self-doubt above all. It had grave doubts about the nature of the self.
https://www.nybooks.com/
articles/2019/10/24/zadie-smith-in-defense-of-fiction/

🎥Les Films de Cannes: din Buenos Aires la București.

Cum a luat naștere Festivalul Les Films de Cannes a Bucarest? Un fragment aparținându-i lui Cristian Mungiu despre ideea și peripețiile primei ediții. Foarte simpatică povestea. (Disclaimer: fragmentul e reprodus de revista Elle care precizează ca sursă „Aspecte din viața mea – amintiri din cinema“)

🎻💰Muzica clasică te face mai generos

Un experiment Heaven-Dictator:

Based on the psychological literature on music as a mood-inducing stimulus and on the effects of mood on helping behavior, we study the effect of exposure to different types of music on the Heaven-Dictator choices. Although at first sight observed distributional preferences are independent of the music condition, further analysis reveals that classical music seems to foster social welfare rather than inequality aversion.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/
traversmark/2019/10/18/
listening-to-classical-music-
makes-us-more-generous-
according-to-new-research/#4796e9104616

📖📚Evadare din Kabul.

Haidari Wujodi, poet mistic și bibliotecar de peste 50 de ani, organizează întâlniri la Biblioteca Publică din Kabul în cadrul cărora se citesc versuri din Rumi, se cântă și sunt dezbătute probleme filosofice și spirituale.

About 15 men and women, members of a group called “The Society of Lovers of Mawlana,” arrive and quietly take their seats. Mr. Wujodi looks out of the window as the room fills with the warm afternoon sun and a peaceful silence. One of the members, a middle-aged man with a narrow beard and a beautiful melodic voice, sings several verses as the rest follow along in their copies of the book. Then, in a soft but shaky voice, his head trembling, Mr. Wujodi begins explaining the verses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/
10/25/world/asia/afghanistan-
poet-haidari-wujodi.html?
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📖Poeții pot îmblânzi răul

Interviu cu Sjon, autor invitat la FILIT. Vă recomandăm să urmăriți interviurile, dar și înregistrările cu el, e un personaj încântător când vorbește despre literatură.