Jeremy
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Introduction | My aim here is to "broadcast" essays, commentary, books, poetry and other material that have not been published elsewhere. Conventionally, this area is reserved for a potted biography, but you can find this (together with more writings) on the website link given above where you'll also find a contact address. |
| Interests | Literature, Theatre, Latin America, Sailing, Thinking, People, La mujer y las mujeres. |
| Favorite Movies | Les Enfants du Paradis, Fanny & Alexander, Ivan the Terrible Part I, Once upon a Time in America, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Antonio das Mortes, Ashes and Diamonds, The Pianist, It's a Wonderful Life, 2001, Moliere (Mnouchkine), Ivan and Abraham, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago, Little Dorrit, 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle, Los Olvidados, the Seventh Seal, Gandhi, Rashomon, The Shawshank Redemption, Farewell my Concubine, Les 400 Coups. |
| Favorite Music | Bach: St Mathew's Passion, Cello Suites and everything else; Mozart: Don Giovanni, Requiem, Schubert piano and string quintets, and last two piano sonatas, Schumann's chamber music (all of it), ditto for Brahms, Mahler: Das lied von der Erde, Chopin (of course!), Los Olimareños, José Alfredo Jimenez, Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel, Eduardo Falú, Buena Vista Social Club and Rubén Gonzalez, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Lola Beltrán, Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, Shostakovich - Viola Sonata played by Rivka Golani. |
| Favorite Books | Everything by Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Chekhov. Homer - the Iliad and the Odyssey, Rabelais - Le Tiers Livre, Montaigne's Essays, most of Dickens, Eliot - Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss, and Adam Bede, Joyce - The Dubliners, Proust - Du Côté de Chez Swann, Le Temps Retrouvé, Lévi-Strauss - Tristes Tropiques, Schwarz-Bart - Le Dernier des Justes (Last of the Just), Sandberg and MOMA - The Family of Man, Chateaubriand - Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe (Memoirs from Beyond the Grave), Neruda - Canto General, García Marquez - Cien Años de Soledad (Hundred Years of Solitude), El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (No one writes to the colonel), Vivir para contarla, Simón Bolívar - Escritos Políticos, The Bhagavad Gita, Lorca - Romancero Gitano. T.E. Lawrence - Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Turgenev - Spring Torrents, Fathers and Sons, Pushkin - Eugene Onegin. |