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Simonetta Agnello Hornby. Portrait of a great woman

Marina Gersony January 11, 2012

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THIS ARTICLE IS PUBLISHED ON "ELLE" I have known in November 2011 Simonetta Agnello Hornby Festivaletteratura to Mantua. I agreed to make an interview days before the end of his meeting with the public. Approach was a challenge. She was surrounded by a crowd of people, each with a book in his hand, which pressed for an autograph, a dedication, [...]

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Sarah Kaminsky: "My father was a forger of the asset»

January 3, 2012 World
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Sarah Kaminsky (pictured in the center, his father left, right, yours truly), was born in 1979 in Sidi M'hamed, Algeria, and lives in France since she was three years. It is a professional actress and author of screenplays. Its particular beauty amber skin, eyes and curly dark emerald, is the result of [...]

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Broken Dolls - Dolls Broken - The incredible story of Iana Matei

November 11, 2011 World
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The original article "ELLE" NR. KIOSK IN NOVEMBER "Constanta, 26, was used in Germany by his own father, who beaten almost every day. Covered with bruises from head to foot, broken wrist and arm fractured in several places, before they can come and stay with us has had to spend [...]

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The woman who made ​​him lose his head to Stendhal

September 28, 2011 Europe
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He married a general of Napoleon, gave birth to a couple of kids, he literally lost his head to Stendhal, became a great friend of Ugo Foscolo, and Pellico, animated intellectual life at the time, fought for independence from Austria, participated subversive conspiracy that led to many Lombard patriots in prison or in exile, he stood up with wit [...]

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Slavoj Žižek and live to the end of time

August 5, 2011 World

Capitalism is ending, what now? If you ask Slavoj Žižek, a philosopher, sociologist and a great popularizer of Ljubljana, also called "philostar" or "the Elvis of philosophy" to the impetuosity verbal creative beard, the rumpled look and - citing his reviewer, David Goldfuss - "happily inelegant charm oozing out of date and for (pro) vocation." [...]

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Hedy Lamarr, the first nude film that "invented" the phones ...

July 19, 2011 Uncategorized

Enchanted famous and less famous, famous people and common: by Gianni Agnelli Jean-Pierre Aumont to the nefarious Adolf Hitler, all fatally attracted by his rare charm. He did not disdain female glissando loves you when I pointed out: "I a lesbian? I think instead of being the kind of person where other women are [...]

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Ignat Solzhenitsyn: "I, the son of such a father"

June 28, 2011 World
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn I met (photo right) in Milan, during the celebration which was held in the large green area of ​​the "Star Mountain", a space dedicated to the Righteous of the world. In the garden are planted new trees every year to honor the men and women who helped the victims of persecution, defended human rights [...]

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Gersony meets Marina Marina Gerson ... Memories from Latvia

May 22, 2011 Europe
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"Often I was born in Lithuania has said - smiling Marina Jarre -, this error did even my editor and friend, Julius Bollati. We see that Lithuania is no longer present for some reason the imaginary Italian Latvia disappearing, just close it is between Lithuania and Estonia. From the Latvian every time I [...]

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Thor Vilhjálmsson, the sea lion who could tell the nature of

March 4, 2011 Europe
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"My grandfather was a handsome man, strong, a sea captain. He knew everything about nature, the changing nature of light, water ... He was a man of action, but could recite entire epic cycles enchanting everyone. Not by chance was an idol of women. That was just people who worked until his death. But then the time [...]

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We are really freer? Do not miss "L" on newsstands in February ...

January 31, 2011 World
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"We are most free?". This is the title of my investigation that appears to "Elle" on newsstands these days (February issue). There are also many interesting services that give the word to women with 15 concrete proposals to improve our lives and the lives of men. A number, in other words, do not miss that [...]

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The story on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day: "The Holocaust Reader"

January 27, 2011 World
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photo credit: Ludwik On the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day propose again a story (redraw) I wrote a year ago. "Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric act." "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric." "Escriba Auschwitz poetry Después de es un acto de barbarism." "Après Auschwitz écrire de la poesie eastern barbarian." "Nach Auschwitz [...]

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