The life of Charles Bukowski, following his long bibliography, is easily recognizable. In his poems, in his stories, in his novels, all the situations that he experienced are reflected. From…
Who were the Fleshly Poets? The carnal poets
The Fleshly school of poetry, (School of carnal poetry), brought together a group of English poets in the late 19th century associated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The term Fleshly Poets…
documentary sources, what are they?
And what are documentary sources? Well, a documentary source shows the origin of the information, without further distinction. DOCUMENTARY SOURCES are the documents, testimonies, events or objects that convey significant…
William Shakespeare, his true portrait
It could be the most real and trustworthy face that we have left of the playwright William Shakespeare. A new curiosity about Shakespeare, after, recently, the portrait of the one…
William Shakespeare, Accusations of Plagiarism
All those things: playwright, actor, poet (or some of them, as we will see later) was William Shakespeare, who is still considered one of the greatest playwrights in the world…
▷ 9 Curiosities about the life of Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda’s father wanted his son to go to university to build a future for himself. Thus, he enrolled in the Institute Pedagogical. Quickly, it came to his ears that…
Did Sherlock Holmes exist? The true history
Detective Sherlock Holmes is real or made up? It may be that, jokingly or seriously, many people for a long time sent letters addressed to Mr. Sherlock Holmes at 221a…
Boris Vian: books and literature. “I will spit on your grave”
Boris Vian wrote “I will spit on your grave” (J’irai cracher sur vos tombes) in 1947, and became a bestseller. Today it is still a hard and disturbing novel, perhaps…