Tag: Roberta Cortese

  • Dal calabrese al tedesco / Aus dem Kalabrischen ins Deutsche

    Dal calabrese al tedesco / Aus dem Kalabrischen ins Deutsche

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    Some notes on my German translation of Dissonorata. Un delitto d’onore in Calabria, a play by Saverio La Ruina.

  • Parole Jelinek. Lieder

    Parole Jelinek. Lieder

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    [A text written and published in the Italian online magazine doppiozero in 2015, slightly re-edited] Elfriede Jelinek nasce nel 1946 a Mürzzuschlag nella Stiria, ma cresce a Vienna, capitale della musica. La madre incoraggia con un certo accanimento i suoi studi musicali e a soli 13 anni Jelinek viene ammessa al Conservatorio di Vienna, dove…

  • Dido’s Problem

    Dido’s Problem

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    Queen Dido of Carthage is better known for her bitter romance with Aeneas, as reported in Vergil’s Aeneid. Her being a historical or mere mythological figure is still debatable, though less known is that she gave name to the isoperimetric problem, which is to determine a plane figure of the largest possible area whose boundary…

  • Penthesilea

    Penthesilea

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    Second oil painting of the series Xénai, a project about extraneity and about the possibility to find affinities in it.

  • meeting Chiyo-ni

    meeting Chiyo-ni

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    An introduction to haiku master Chiyo-ni and to my drawings starting from her haikus.

  • Kassandra

    Kassandra

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    Kassandra, Turkey. First painting of the series Xénai

  • wild daheim

    wild daheim

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    This painting was made while working on Winterreise – Viaggio d’Inverno, a theatrical project based on both Winterreisen: Elfriede Jelinek’s play and Franz Schubert / Wilhelm Müller’s song cycle. In both Winter Journeys there’s the same lyrical ego wandering through, lost in itself, and so here it is, the inner wildness we all get lost in once in…