Mario Vargas Llosa: Life and Literature
Lesley Wylie, University of Leicester Sin las ficciones seríamos menos conscientes de la importancia de la libertad para que la vida sea vivible y del infierno en que se convierte cuando es conculcada por un tirano, una ideología o una religión. Quienes dudan de que...Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s Hammerstein oder Der Eigensinn. Warum dieses Buch doch ein Roman ist
Richard Littlejohns (Leicester) Hans Magnus Enzensberger published Hammerstein oder Der Eigensinn in 2008, since when it has appeared in paperback and reached the bestseller lists. Now in his eighties, Enzensberger has had a chequered and often controversial career...
Reading (and re-reading) Jana Hensel’s Zonenkinder
Geoffrey Plow, University College School, Hampstead Deutsch: Lehren und Lernen, Autumn 2010, No 42, 3-7 INTRODUCTION When Jana Hensel published Zonenkinder in 2002,1 it was acclaimed for its documentation of an identity crisis felt by a whole generation of former East...
Il teatro di Gianni Rodari: la fantasia al servizio dell’apprendimento della lingua
Chiara Torriani, (University of Colorado, Boulder) Nella primavera del 2005, ho avviato presso il dipartimento d’italiano dell’University of Colorado a Boulder (USA) un corso sperimentale che utilizzava il teatro come veicolo d’insegnamento della lingua e che si...