C1/B2 Library Mayhem

Fellow friends, here is the list of new books in the library, donated from the SCSSS Fund Book Club

If you click at the book title, an Amazon.co.uk page will open for the edition that we have

Wilde,Oscar: Dorian Grey
 Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby 
 Stevenson, Robert Louis: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other stories
 Amis, Martin: Time's Arrow
 Kelman, James: Selected  Stories
Hendry, J.F(ed):  The Penguin Book of Scottish Short Stories
 Greene, Graham: Brighton Rock
 Maguire, Susie: Furthermore


Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe
Collins, Wilkie: Moonstone
Dickens, Charles: The Tale of Two Cities
Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451


Dylan et Matlin (prod.): The Caedmon Short Story Collection 
James, Henry: Washington Square
Kerouac, Jack: Dharma Bums
Defoe Daniel: Moll Flanders
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Grisham, John: The Pelican Brief
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
Davies, David Stuart (ed.): Short Stories from the 19th Century
Salinger, JD: The Catcher in the Rye
James, Henry: Daisy Miller
Green, Graham: Under the Garden
Wharton, Edith: Madame of Treymes
Wells, H.G.: The Red Room and other Stories
Lawrence, D.H.: Sons and Lovers
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Treasure Island
Tolkien, J.R.R: The Hobbit
Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty Four
Wellsh, Irvine: Trainspotting

And here's an new list of ALL books in our small literary library

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoiDA8dEogrHdEVwNWM4cjZVNXVSZW5SM0FMN0NJWGc

and a little experimental feature where you can order them according to the year published, author, title, level...

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S4073883oZF

If you want to borrow the books, or have any questions, contact me here or in class.

Thank you.

C1 Literary Mayhem No. 14 The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."

My name is Nick Carraway and I am telling you a story of my friend, Jay Gatsby:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHNTdmYmRlNGYtOWQ0Ni00MDA4LWEzOGYtZTZkMWVhMjUzZDdk

I want you to read the story before the class and see if you can answer the questions here:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHeUpXemhBb1FTQTJ3LVo0Ujlwc3IxUQ

The Great Gatsby (1925) is one of the greatest American classics. The novel was written in Paris by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and it has come to be seen as a representation of the Jazz Age (or Roaring Twenties).  Read the whole novel here  or borrow it from me ;)

more interesting Gatsbys

Robert Redford as Jay Gatsby

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2E6F5B966E25A447

Great Gatsby explained in 60 seconds (tm)

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL926BEC0C4BBF2F64

Great Gatsby Adventure!

http://greatgatsbygame.com/

Could You Survive 1920s?

http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/games/game_0_1920s/

Fitzgerald Crossword Puzzle Contest - Puzzle Entry Form and Clues

 How much do you know about Fitzgerald's works and life? Print out the puzzle, complete it, and compare your answers to the solution.

C1 Literary Mayhem No.13/2 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Friends,

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. So, here's what I've got to say:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHNzQ0ODU5NWQtMjQ5NS00NTg1LTk2ZTctNDdkNjMyMDcwZWJi

"For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed." (Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize Acceptance speech)

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 was awarded to Ernest Hemingway "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC_ZksjsnRQ

Words from Ernest Hemingway and music from Fugazi. 
A Come Up, Kinch production.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LWb6_vPMN0

Gil (Owen Wilson) is introduced to Ernest Hemingway (Corey Stoll) in Woody Allen's Midnight In Paris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5ih1IRIRxI

Aleksandr Petrov, the one man Army behind this classic adaptation, has achieved so many well deserved prestigious awards for this once in a life time movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKeGQNxjNOA

readings from the novella, plus interviews with folks from Cuba who knew Papa back in the day, including Ernesto Garcia Gutierrez.

Ernest Miller Hemingway

Born: 21 July 1899, Oak Park, IL, USA

Died: 2 July 1961, Ketchum, ID, USA

Residence at the time of the award: USA

Prize motivation: "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style"

Language: English

Biography

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.

During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel,The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.

Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.

From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969

C1 Lit/Translation Mayhem No.13/1

Hello folks,

with the pre-test approaching, I have not much more for you to read, rather create. Because, as you may have noticed, translation is a creative process of intepreting

It's high time you got yourself a Monolingual English/English learner's dicttionary, and  take it to the class with you, since you're not allowed to use online or electronic ones at the pre-test (for obvious reasons) - such as this one I am going to give you a few tips on using it. And we will do some more translating excercises..

ALSO, I am waiting for your Kerouac translations and here's one more text to translate before Thursday:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EmHjogO9CrZEvGHUCtbk43X1EBKVlgPc4s9O8JfXSBU/edit

B group, we also might go through this interesting piece by George Orwell on Freedom of Speech, I encourage you to read it:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHOWFjN2ViNWItYTc3MS00NjdkLWI5ZWQtODZhZjNkYTA0NGY4

On this day...
January 29: Constitution Day in Gibraltar 1845 – American poet Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" appeared in the New York Evening Mirror, its first publication attributed to Poe.

C1 Literary Mayhem No.12 Nineteen eighty-four by George Orwell

before you read this: Please do not forget to e-mail/bring your Kerouac translations by Thursday 26 Jan, 9:30 AM/next class!

do not forget to visit: http://c1literarymayhem.blogspot.com

Dear citizens of the free world,

My name is George Orwell, the father of the term "Big Brother" and I think that "Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear." And I have an important   to share for you to read:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHOGRlNTZkNzAtZDlmNy00NTEwLTkzYjUtNzU1NDBiNWRjM2Ez

We might also mention this pre-face to my other novel, The Animal Farm, please read my take on The Freedom of the Press:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4iDA8dEogrHOWFjN2ViNWItYTc3MS00NjdkLWI5ZWQtODZhZjNkYTA0NGY4

IN OTHER NEWS: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hATC_2I1wZE

BBC Television's live production of George Orwell's "1984". Produced in 1954.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5464625623984168940

Michael Radford's utterly superlative film of Orwell's famed novel may well be the greatest cinematic adaptation of a major literary source ever -- and it stands out as one of the most memorable British films of the past thirty years.  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/17/why-is-there-going-to-be-a-wikipedia-blackout-and-what-is-sopa/

Need to know about the Wikipedia blackout? In this occasional feature, the National Post tells you everything you need to know about the a complicated issue. Beginning midnight Wednesday, crowd-sourced knowledge database Wikipedia went dark and will be offline for 24 hours as a protest against proposed anti-piracy legislation in the United States. We give you the inside scoop on why the sixth most popular website on the planet has decided to turn itself off for a day and how you can access its pages even though it is offline. Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more

C1/B2 Literary Mayhem - English Magazines in Bratislava

Your classmate asked, so I thought you might be interested too in..English  Magazines in Bratislava

A great source of news on Slovakia in English, is a weekly newspaper called The Slovak Spectator. You can see more

at their website, http://spectator.sme.sk/ or here at your favourite English website http://c1literarymayhem.blogspot.com/p/daily-book-news.html and http://b2literarymayhem.blogspot.com/p/book-worm.html

I am pretty sure there are more coffee shops offering English speaking magazines to read with your coffee, but here's one owned by a friend from Canada, Ben Pascoe:

http://www.nextapache.sk/books.html

We offer a great selection of English and Slovak language second hand books of all genres. If you are looking for bestsellers, classics, fiction or fantasy, Shakespeare or Star Trek, we have them all. Our collection currently counts more than 9000 titles and continues to grow rapidly.

In addition, you can also come to read one of our many newspapers and magazines. We currently subscribe to: Wall Street Journal Europe, Economist, Sme and Novy Cas.

Also, PantaRhei in Eurovea has a great selection of English Language magazines, I am pretty sure it's not the only one. 

Yep, here are all the selling points of Interpress in Bratislava:

InterpressTop Panta Rhei Bratislava Poštová ul., Bratislava Opening hours: Mo - Su: 08:00 - 20:00 h

InterpressTop Panta Rhei Bratislava Galleria EUROVEA Opening hours: Mo - Su: 09:00 - 21:00 h

Bookstores - MODUL SVET KNIHY, Obchodná ul. Bratislava MODUL, Laurinská ul. Bratislava Opening hours: Mo - Su: 09:00 - 19:00 hod

PRESS POINT,  OC Hron Dudvážska 5061 821 07 Bratislava Opening hours: Mo - Fr: Sa: Su: 08:00 - 21:00 h 08:00 - 21:00 h 08:00 - 21:00 h

Stahl Press, Main Railway Station Bratislava 811 04 Bratislava Opening hours: Mo - Fr: Sa: Su: 05:00 - 23:00 h 05:00 - 21:00 h 05:00 - 23:00 h

Stahl Press, Main Bus Station  Bratislava Mlynské nivy 24 821 02 Bratislava Opening hours: Mo - Fr: Sa: Su: 06:00 - 20:00 h 06:00 - 18:00 h 14:00 - 21:00 h

Viva Shop, Personal Port Bratislava Fajnorovo nabrežie 811 02 Bratislava Opening hours: Mo - Fr: Sa: Su: 07:30 - 20:00 h 07:30 - 22:00 h 07:30 - 22:00 h

Carrefour Hypermarkets Shopping Centre Polus Bratislava, Danubia Bratislava, Dubeň Žilina, Cassovia Košice Opening hours: Mo - Su: 07:00 - 22:00 h

TESCO Hypermarkets Bratislava, Banská Bystrica, Košice, Levice, Nitra, Pezinok, Piešťany, Poprad, Považská Bystrica, Prešov, Prievidza, Trenčín, Trnava, Žilina

COOP Jednota Bratislava TERNO Supermarket Shopping centre AUPARK Bratislava, EUROPA Banská Bystrica Opening hours: Mo - Su: 08:00 - 22:00 h

You can also download most of magazines to a reader or an apple device these days, not to mention the torrent sites, or just read them online. Hope I've helped ;)

Jack Kerouac Translation Excercise

I am really interested in your translation of the four paragraphs from a Sme Daily article below:

Tú vetu by som čakal odo mňa

Jack Kerouac prekvapuje aj štyridsať rokov po smrti. Vlani najskôr prvýkrát vyšla necenzurovaná verzia románu Na ceste a čoskoro nato sa zjavila doteraz neznáma autorova prvotina More je môj brat. Jej slovenské vydanie predbehlo všetkých.
BRATISLAVA. Tá správa pôsobila v prvom momente všelijako, jedni ju považovali za slabší žart, druhí za nedorozumenie, ktoré sa rýchlo vysvetlí. Bola to vskutku neuveriteľná informácia, že Artforum vydá 14. mája vo svetovej premiére román Jacka Kerouaca More je môj brat, a vlastne neuveriteľná správa je to ešte stále.

Boli sme najrýchlejší

„Keď vlani na jeseň ponúkli majitelia autorských práv tento doteraz neznámy román do predaja, neváhali sme s kúpou a začali pracovať na jeho slovenskom vydaní," hovorí šéf Artfora Vladimír Michal. „Nastal klasický vydavateľský postup, Otakar Kořínek sa pustil do prekladu, a hoci nás nehnala nejaká osobitná túžba byť prví, proste sme boli najrýchlejší. Napríklad v českom Argu ešte len hľadajú prekladateľa."
Záhadou však je, že kniha nevyšla skôr v Spojených štátoch či vo Veľkej Británii, kde sa nebolo treba zdržovať jej prekladom. „Na to fakt neviem odpovedať," smeje sa Michal, „ale možno je tá odpoveď skrytá práve v knihe samotnej."
Americké aj britské vydania sú ohlásené až na začiatok novembra. Hoci kanadská pobočka internetového obchodu Amazon avizuje vydanie románu v Kanade na 12. máj, na stránke vydavateľstva HarperCollins o tom nie je žiadna zmienka, a tak je slovenské vydanie jediné, o ktorom nie sú pochybnosti.

piatok 7. 5. 2010 | Alexander Balogh
Článok bol uverejnený v tlačenom vydaní SME. 

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