Xala by Ousmane Sembene
RevSocialist اش... — Sat, 07/24/2010 - 15:03
This short novel (104pg) by Sengalese communist writer Ousmane Sembene, is really more of a satire and parable then a normal novel, and if you don't look at it as a satire and parable (i.e. as it was intended to be perceived), then it really won't make much sense.
I Malavoglia, or The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga
RevSocialist اش... — Thu, 06/10/2010 - 17:00
This novel (255pg) by Giovanni Verga proves once again how radical and progressive an author this great Sicilian was. There are so many things to point out, but I will start first with the structure of this novel: you will notice that the first two pages of this novel contain a "cast of characters" much like that of a play.
Freedom by Otto Rene Castillo
RevSocialist اش... — Mon, 05/03/2010 - 09:32
Freedom
by Otto Rene Castillo
For you
we have so many blows
on our skin
that even standing on end
there's no room for us in death.
In my country
freedom is something more
than a delicate breeze of the soul,
it is also a courage of skin.
In every inch of its infinite cry
your name is written:
freedom.
In the tortured hands.
In the eyes, open in shock
of mourning.
On the brow in its dignity.
In the breast, where man
grows up in us.
On our back, in our feet that suffer.
In our balls
proud of themselves.
رسالة جورج حبش لابنته ميساء في طفولتها بتاريخ 24/11/1970
Dalal دلال — Sun, 05/02/2010 - 10:04
هذه رسالة أرسلها المناضل الفلسطيني الراحل جورج حبش لابنته الكبرى ميساء، أثناء تواجده في عمان من أجل الكفاح المسلح.
تأثرت كثيرا بهذه الرسالة الرقيقة التي يبث فيها حبش حبه واشتياقه لابنته التي كانت طفلة وقتها، ويحاول التخفيف فيها من حزنها على هذا الفراق الذي فرضه التزامه السياسي بالقضية الفلسطينية.
Johan Padan and the "Discovery" of the Americas by Dario Fo
RevSocialist اش... — Fri, 04/30/2010 - 15:53
This play (109pg) by Dario Fo was written in the unconventional style which Fo himself first made popular, i.e. "narrative theatre" (teatro di narrazione). In such narrative plays, there is only one person, and there is no action or dress or background or anything like that, but just a narrator-actor telling a story, very similar to the popular storytelling which influenced Fo's style so much.
Bad News on a Scrap of Newspaper by Roque Dalton
RevSocialist اش... — Wed, 04/28/2010 - 15:00
Bad News on a Scrap of Newspaper
by Roque Dalton
Nowadays when my friends die
only their names die.
How can I hope, down in this rotten hole,
to take in more than the newsprint,
the sheen of delicate black letters,
arrows deep into personal memories?
Only those who live outside the prisons
can honor the corpses, wash off
the grief for their dead ones with embraces,
scratch up the grave with fingernail and tears.
Not those of us in jail: we just whistle
to let the sound play down the news.
Jürgen Bartsch and Society by Ulrike Meinhof
RevSocialist اش... — Wed, 04/28/2010 - 11:34
Jürgen Bartsch and Society (1968)
By Ulrike Meinhof
The Three by Maxim Gorky
RevSocialist اش... — Sat, 04/24/2010 - 21:11
This beautiful novel (466 [small] pg) by Gorky is his novel of the urban poor, and the conditions and frustrations which they live through, and the capitalist illusions they may hold on to as dreams to sustain themselves.
A Ride on the Whirlwind by Sipho Sepamla
RevSocialist اش... — Sat, 04/24/2010 - 13:59
This novel (241pg) by Black South African writer Sipho Sepamla, was written about the 1977 Soweto Uprising (they normally call them "riots" because the participants weren't white). It discusses both the students' movement which led the uprising, as well as the armed resistance groups which operated in South Africa during the period of white-rule (and now, thanks to the heroic sellout of Mandela, there is Black rule over economic apartheid, with the white torturers and murderers still free, and white ownership of an vastly unproportionate amount of land still continuing).
Distances by Otto Rene Castillo
RevSocialist اش... — Thu, 04/22/2010 - 19:10
Distances
by Otto Rene Castillo
1. The irony
2. The understanding
3. The cowardly nation
4. Local logic
5. The question
6. Light and shadow
7. The lesson of the assassinated
1.
In 1935 Hitler said
"The Third Reich
will last a thousand years."
What did Hitler say
ten years later
under the ruins of Berlin?
A few years later
Mister Dulles, snoring
like a caterpillar
said "This decade will see the end
of the slavery of communism."
What did Yuri Gagarin
do a few years later,
sending his greetings to men
over the wide oceans
