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El Enigma Stradivarius

Written by Miguel Ángel Valero López
Thursday, 01 January 2009 00:00
EL ENIGMA STRADIVARIUS Carlo Scirocchi. Prefacio de Stanislao Nievo. Traducción de M. P. V. e Inmaculada Otero. Algaida Editores. Sevilla. 2008. 238 páginas El poder alquímico de la música Miguel Ángel Valero López Hay quien cree en el poder alquímico de la música, en las dimensiones mágicas y espirituales del arte, desgraciadamente arrinconadas. Existen todavía comunidades sufíes (los Naqshbandi, los Mevlevi, los Jerrahi, los Nematollahi) y otras confraternidades que aprecian el conocimiento del hombre, su camino hacia la paz y la unidad, y que utilizan la música para alcanzar tal comunicación espiritual, que está al margen de las religiones oficiales.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 20 September 2009 19:09 )
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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Written by Tom Cunliffe
Thursday, 01 January 2009 00:00
THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN The magic in the illness Tom Cunliffe I have wanted to read this book for a long time, and decided to take the plunge on discovering this new translation by John E Woods. This is a monster of a book - at 854 closely typeset pages, it is going to take a long time to read: in my case it too me the best part of a month. One of the main themes of this books is the experience of “time”. The patients at the mountain sanatorium initially arrive for what they think is going to be stay of a few weeks, but inevitably they end up staying on for months and years, and even return for further “treatment” when they have tried to return to normal life below in “flatland”.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 20 September 2009 19:08 )
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