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No próximo sábado, a Biblioteca Nacional de Espanha adere à iniciativa «La Noche em Blanco». Poesia, dança e homenagem a três grandes autores espanhóis - entre eles, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1910 – 1999). Portas abertas até às 3h00.
«The absorbing fact about being mortally sick is that you spend a good deal of time preparing yourself to die with some modicum of stoicism (and provision for loved ones), while being simultaneously and highly interested in the business of survival. This is a distinctly bizarre way of “living”—lawyers in the morning and doctors in the afternoon—and means that one has to exist even more than usual in a double frame of mind. The same is true, it seems, of those who pray for me. And most of these are just as “religious” as the chap who wants me to be tortured in the here and now—which I will be even if I eventually recover—and then tortured forever into the bargain if I don’t recover or, presumably and ultimately, even if I do.» Texto de Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair) e a notícia do Guardian.
Por outras palavras, The World Alliance (TWA).
É destaque no New York Times: Simon Wiesenthal - The Life and Legends, de Tom Segev (Doubleday). Excerto aqui.