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"The things that happen are forever in an exact story"
"The things that happen are forever in an exact story"
Beatriz Gomes
Cristiana Soares
Tiago
Biography of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Biography of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was born on 6 November 1919 in Porto and died on 2 July 2004. She was a Portuguese poet and writer. She had five children.
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen's poem
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen's poem
“Quando”
“Quando”
Quando o meu corpo apodrecer e eu for morta
Continuará o jardim, o céu e o mar,
E como hoje igualmente hão-de bailar
As quatro estações à minha porta
Outros em abril passarão no pomar
Em que eu tantas vezes passei,
Haverá longos poentes sobre o mar,
Outros amarão as coisas que eu amei
Será o mesmo brilho a mesma festa,
Será o mesmo jardim à minha porta,
E os cabelos dourados da floresta,
Como se eu não estivesse morta.
Click on the picture below and listen to the poem: "I Feel the Dead" by Sophia de Mello Breyner, read by the Portuguese English teacher! :)
Click on the picture below and listen to the poem: "I Feel the Dead" by Sophia de Mello Breyner, read by the Portuguese English teacher! :)
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838-1907) - poet, writer, playwright, historian, philologist and folklorist
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (1838-1907) - poet, writer, playwright, historian, philologist and folklorist
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu (26 February 1838 – 7 September [O.S. 25 August] 1907) was a Romanian writer and philologist, who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history.
Life
Life
He was born Tadeu Hasdeu in Cristineştii Hotinului, northern Bessarabia, at the time part of Imperial Russia. His father was the writer Alexandru Hâjdeu, a descendent of the Hâjdău family of Moldovan boyars, with noted Polish connections.
After studying law at the University of Kharkiv, he fought as a Russian hussar in the Crimean War. In 1858 he settled in Iaşi as a high school teacher and librarian. In 1865, Hasdeu published a monograph on Ioan Vodă the Terrible, renaming him for the first time cel Viteaz—"the Brave". The portrayal of this violent, short rule as a glorious moment (and of Ioan himself as a reformer) drew criticism from the Junimea society, a conflict which was to follow Hasdeu for the rest of his life. Still, Hasdeu's version of Ioan's character and his anti-boyar actions were to be reclaimed as a founding myth by Communist Romania.
In 1863, Hasdeu again moved his residence, from Iaşi to Bucharest; he began editing the satirical magazine Aghiuţă, which ceased publication the following year.
Scientific works
Scientific works
In Romania, Hasdeu started work on the Arhiva historică a României (1865-1867), the first history work to use sources in Slavonic and Romanian. He also published the 1870 philological review Columna lui Traian, the best at the time in Romania. With the work Cuvente dân Batrâni (2 volumes, 1878-1881), he was the first to contribute to the history of apocryphal literature in Romania.
His Istoria critică a Românilor (1875), though incomplete, marks the beginning of critical investigation into the history of Romania. Hasdeu edited the ancient Psalter of Coresi of 1577 (Psaltirea lui Coresi, 1881).
His Etymologicum magnum Romaniae (1886) was the beginning of an encyclopaedic dictionary of the Romanian language, though he never covered letters after B. While the completed parts of the work do aim to be exhaustive, and are remarkably detailed, many of its entries reflect more of Hasdeu's own vision than historical facts (in one famous entry, he claims to be able to trace Basarab I's ancestry in a direct line to the Dacian rulers, with Dacia as a developed state that would have had, at times, dominated the Roman Empire—to the point where the single ruling family would have given Rome a large number of emperors).
Hasdeu got involved in the dispute over the Latin origin of the Romanian language. Being challenged by numerous arguments which pointed to the central position occupied by words of Slavicorigin in the Romanian language, Hasdeu developed an influential verdict, deemed the theory of words' circulation. The conclusion he reached was that Slavic words were never as widely used as Latin ones, with usage giving the language its character.
In 1876 he was appointed head of the State Archives in Bucharest, and in 1878 professor of philology at the University of Bucharest. In 1877, Hasdeu was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy.
Last years/Death
Last years/Death
After the death of his only child, his daughter Iulia, in 1888, he became a spiritualist and a firm adept of the spiritism. He retreated to a Câmpina mansion, and arranged it as a temple to his newly found beliefs and to his daughter. He died there and was buried in Bellu cemetery, Bucharest.
His works include two dramas, Răsvan şi Vidra, and Domniţa Ruxandra. In 1891-92, he wrote Sic Cogito, a theoretical work of spiritism as a philosophy. In addition to his interest in science, Hasdeu was the author of many poems, usually short ones. The Romanian critic Mircea Eliade described him as a "genius of an amazing vastness".
Favourite books
Favourite books
The favourite book of Max E. ( Anne-Frank-School, Germany)
The favourite book of Max E. ( Anne-Frank-School, Germany)
The book is telling about an accident with a nuclear reactor in Germany. It is the same scenario as the reactor accident in Tschernobyl years ago.
Die Wolke (The Cloud)
Die Wolke (The Cloud)
Janna-Berta is in class when suddenly the alarm sounds. It was the ABC alarm. The director said that all students should leave the school as soon as possible and go home. Janna-Berta could not go home because her parents were not around so she drove with a boy named Lars. On the trip she learned that the Gau took place in Grafenrheinfeld, near Schweinfurt, where her parents were and that there was an easterly wind that carried all the radiation exactly in her direction. Janna-Berta arrived at home and found her little brother there. He had arrived before her and wanted to make a poke cake. Janna-Berta wanted to go in the cellar, the way it was said on the radio but then her mother called and told her to escape. Best with a neighbor but all the neighbors were already left. So Janna-Berta and Uli rode the bicycles. But as they drove off, Uli remembered forgetting his grandfather's budgie. Janna-Berta said he should leave him there. Uli started to cry. Janna-Berta and Uli drove through the city and came to a police roadblock. They embraced and drove through many meadows. After some time Uli could not anymore but Janna-Berta persuaded him to drive to a tree. There they took a short break and afterwards drove on . Uli was tired again and on a hill Uli let the bike roll and he was hit by a car. Janna-Berta was shocked and kept looking at Uli's body lying in a pool of blood. A car stopped and a man and a woman got out. They consoled Janna-Berta and laid the body on the side of the road. Janna-Berta had to ride with them. They had three more girls. When they arrived at the station, where they wanted to take a train to flee from the cloud, Janna-Berta had to take care of the three girls of the Heublers and join them on the train. However, Janna-Berta lost the children in the scrum. The Heublers arrived at Janna-Berta and asked where their children were. Janna-Berta did not answer and ran to the rapeseed fields where Uli's body lay. On the way there she was exposed to the fallout. She kept running through the radioactive rain.She run towards the golden yellow rape fields. When it stopped raining, Janna-Berta could not walk anymore. She hit a highway. A colored bus stopped next to her. Janna-Berta got in and fell asleep from exhaustion. When Janna woke up, she heard something about frontier. Apparently they had arrived at the border with the DDR. Janna-Berta got out and walked on. She was thirsty, she knocked on a door because she did not find the bell button. An elderly woman opened. The woman asked Janna-Berta where she came from. When Janna-Berta said she was coming out of Schlitz, the woman was frightened and did not want to give anything to Janna-Berta, because everyone who came from there was beaming. Janna-Berta walked on and stopped by a river. She vomited and collapsed. Janna-Berta was admitted to an emergency hospital, which was set up in a sports hall of a school. Janna-Berta did not speak and did not want to eat either. She was lying next to a Turkish woman. Her name was Ayse. She cried alot. Janna-Berta spoke again. She and Ayse were now friends. After a few days, a new orderly came to the hospital. His name was Tünnes. Janna-Berta asked Tünnes every day if her parents were found in the search index. However, Tünnes denied this again and again. After a few days, Janna-Berta and Ayse lost their hair. One day Janna-Berta's aunt Helga came . She asked her why she was taken into the search engine late and told her that her parents, her other brother and her grandmother Jo had died at the Gau. She remembered how nice the time had been with them. The next night Ayse had a very high fever. Aye died. In the next few days Helga came over again and again. When Janna-Berta could be released she and Helga went off. Janna-Berta lived with Helga in Hamburg. She wanted Janna-Berta to wear a wig but Janna-Berta didn´t want to. Helga sent Janna back to school when she was strong again. At school, the other sick people said that Janna was a pity because she was running around without a wig. She met her old classmate Elmar again. Elmar had also fled to Hamburg. Almut, another aunt of Janna-Berta, was at the door on a rainy Saturday. Janna-Berta talked to her about Uli and the others who died in the accident. Almut stayed with Helga for a couple of days. Janna-Berta spent a lot of time with Elmar. When she came to visit him one day, she was told that he had killed himself. With an overdose of tablets. Janna-Berta undressed at Helga and went to Almut. Janna-Berta now lived with Helga. Reinhard had found a new apartment. It was an old weekend house. They moved right in there. Janna-Berta wanted to pull back to Schlitz. Restricted zone 3 was opened. The day before the opening, Janna-Berta met Meike, her friend from Fulda. They talked about the time after the accident in Grafenrheinfeld. She also met Lars, with whom she had come along. Janna-Berta sat down with him and his family. The next morning she got up early and went to Schlitz. Janna-Berta went with a woman. After that she went with a student. He took her to Uli. Janna-Berta buried him. After that she continued with the bike. When she finally arrived at her house, she got her key out and unlocked the door. At home she met her grandparents. She talked to them. At first, Janna wanted to keep everything secret what happens her family, but she overcomes herself and tells everything.
Anna Frank is a Jewish girl who has to go into hiding during the World War 2 to escape from Nazis.Together with seven other people she hides in a secret annex at Prisengracht 263 in Amsterdam.There she starts feeling isolated and mistreated from her family so she finds company in her diary.Kitty,as she named her diary,was her only true friend and she spend hours writting to her.However,after more than two years of hiding they are discovered and deported to concentration camps.Otto,Anna's father,was the only one to survive and devoted his life to her daughter's diary.Anna's dream has always been to become a successful writer.Even if she didn't live to see that happens she became a famous writer worldwide as a great number of people have read her book.
Answering to Anna Frank's diary
Last week we had our schools results.I rarely get nervous and I just see my friends freaking out and trying to calm them down.I am of the opinion that not our whole future depends on them.However, I am a good student and I like reading books.As for the punishment I had a memorable one.My best freind and I were talking over the whole lesson of Miss Karen and in the end she told us that we will never sit on the same desk again.That's all for now.
Yours,
Daphne
TUESDAY, 17 NOVEMBER 1942
Dearest Anne,
I felt very uncomfortable reading your letter. It’s strange how a simple guide makes somebody feel like this but, it’s tragic thinking of how limited your freedom is. When I’m comparing my rights with yours, I feel even more uncomfortable. I often complain about my limitation and I’m thinking of how unlucky I am. But, after reading your letter I stopped feeling unlucky; now I feel rather unfair, very unjust in front of you.
Personally, I haven’t limits to almost nothing of your rules of the secret annexe. In the radiophone, I can hear whatever I want, whenever I want (except some exceptions). A similar situation is with the books and the movies. In my bathroom there is warm water whenever I need it. The food isn’t specific every week and the exercise is voluntary. The only ban concerns the use of alcohol from children’s part.
You see, we are not afraid of the possibility of hearing us, cause we are not hiding. I used to say that when someone is hiding , he is afraid of something and someone who is afraid of something , is culpable. Well, you have changed my mind. It’s blood-curding the fact that someone killed thousands other people because of their origin, cause he thinks that they are lower forms of life. I believe that he is not a human. Only animals behave like this. But that’s wrong… Animals have heart. He has not a heart. Truly, I don’t know if there exist a word that can describe him.
Fotini
One of the greatest voices of contemporary literature is the voice of MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU. Here you can see an interview with the successful author.
One of the greatest voices of contemporary literature is the voice of MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU. Here you can see an interview with the successful author.
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