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El país que he escollit. Antologia poètica - Robert Graves
Traducció: Josep Maria Jaumà
Edicions del Salobre, Port de Pollença - 2009
(Trobat a Nova Editorial Moll)Tot i que es va fer conegudíssim per la seva novel·la "Jo Claudi" (1934) adaptada com a minisèrie per la BBC el 1976, era fonamentalment un poeta.
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves
https://novaeditorialmoll.cat/producte/el-pais-que-he-escollit-antologia-poetica/
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Robert Graves -- Good-Bye To All That
This 1929 autobiographical work is indispensable for an understanding of how many British dealt with the memory of the Great War in the years that followed.
The accounts of the chaos and confusion of military operations were vividly narrated, but did not come as a great surprise to me. I was more taken aback by the stories of allied mistreatment of German prisoners, with Graves picking out Canadian and Australian soldiers as especially notable for this behaviour.
"Good-Bye To All That" is rich with memorable anecdote and imagery, such as tommies using machine gun cooling water to make tea, and incidents of the wartime absurd, like the story of Graves mistakenly being reported as dead, then receiving a communication from his commanding officer: “I cannot tell you how pleased I am you are alive.”
Nevertheless the horror of the war is never forgotten: “The first dead body I came upon was Samson’s. I found that he had forced his knuckles into his mouth to stop himself crying out and attracting any more men to their death. He had been hit in 17 places.”
#Books #RobertGraves #GoodByeToAllThat #Autobiography #BritishLiterature #LiteratureInEnglish #FirstWorldWar #WW1 #History
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Love is not kindly nor yet grim / But does to you as you to him.
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The whole documentary is available to watch online from the Leman Productions archive: Alastair Reid reflects on 30 years of writing for the NEW YORKER magazine, & his remarkable literary friendships with Robert Graves, Jorge Luis Borges & Pablo Neruda
3/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2-NTj70oBA
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #sunshine #calvinism #AlastairReid #20thcentury #RobertGraves #JorgeLuisBorges #Borges #PabloNeruda
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Love is not kindly nor yet grim / But does to you as you to him.
-- Robert Graves -
Love is not kindly nor yet grim / But does to you as you to him.
-- Robert Graves -
El eterno retorno de Sísifo ⛓️⛓️🦠🎭 https://buff.ly/2WWvlLo Al comenzar una nueva etapa tras la pausa veraniega te propongo unas reflexiones sobre el mito de Sísifo desde la antigüedad hasta nuestras propias vidas con obras que te sorprenderán de #RobertGraves, #Camus, #Kallifatides, #Monteverdi y #Lully
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I hear a Japanese store solved that by simply having a display of Father Christmas crucified.
Cf #RobertGraves and #TheWhiteGoddess.
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don't forget the alt text).
#20books20days 9/20 #bookstodon #RobertGraves #TheWhiteGoddess #Paganism #Mythology
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#330 Robert Graves - The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth. Faber and Faber, London, 1984, amended and enlarged edition. #RobertGraves #Poetry #Mythology #Celts #BookOfTheDay
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Robert Graves had a unique and idiosyncratic approach to historical fiction. Best-known for I, CLAUDIUS but COUNT BELISARIUS, set against the background of Justinian's attempt to reconquer the Roman Empire in the West, is very much worth reading.
#HistoricalFiction #RobertGraves #RomanHistory #belisarius #justinian #Historicalnovel #Historicalnovels
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Mati Klarwein: Robert Graves (1957). Graves was an English poet, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated #Irish poet and figure in the #Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish #mythology. Graves produced more than 140 works in his lifetime. #novel #fiction #poetry #RobertGraves #history
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A random choice of #7Books on a particularly lazy #Saturday afternoon
To Kill a Mockingbird #HarperLee
The Tommyknockers #StephenKing
Dune #FrankHerbert
The Last Enchantment #MaryStewart
The Remains of the Day #KazuoIshiguro
La Solitudine dei Numeri Primi #PaoloGiordano
King Jesus #RobertGraves