Word: neruda
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...period of nearly 15 years, a prominent psychiatrist treats a young neurotic named Gene Kenny. After much painstaking analysis, Dr. Rafael Neruda sees what he believes to be a triumph of his therapeutic skills: Gene is no longer a passive wimp but rather a rising computer whiz with a wife, a son and--somewhat to the shrink's discomfort--a beautiful mistress. After their last session, Neruda notes, "I have to admit a surge of vanity: I was proud of what I had wrought." A bit later he hears from his former patient, "You cured...
...life and death? It was just that for Massimo Troisi, star of The Postman (Il Postino). Enfeebled by a heart condition, the Italian actor was able to work only an hour or two a day on his dream movie, whose story imagined a friendship between Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and a simple postman. Two cardiologists and an oxygen tent stood by on the set for Troisi, 41, who couldn't walk more than a few feet before sitting down. A high school gym teacher had to serve as his body double for more than half his scenes. Yet the actor...
...company didn't use burger-chain tie-ins or Massimo Troisi dolls to merchandise the picture, but it did sell 30,000 copies of the 1985 Antonio Skarmeta novel on which the film is based, and another 25,000 books of Neruda poetry. A CD of stars like Sting, Madonna and Wesley Snipes reading Neruda was later sent to Academy members with a videocassette of the film, as was a note telling them that Il Postino was ineligible for the foreign-language Oscar because the Italians had not offered it for nomination. If Academy voters wanted to honor the film...
...Neruda (Philippe Noiret), the communist poet in political exile on an Italian isle, introduces the postman (Troisi) to the verbal rapture of metaphors; aids him in winning over the sultry, feral Beatrice (Maria Grazia Cucinotta); then abandons Mario to return home. But the film's true poetry is in Troisi's face--gaunt and ethereal, like that of a Jesus in a Neapolitan pageant. The audience needs no subtitles to read the feelings in this man's brave, troubled heart...
...Readers to master 850 or so writers. He wants them to pay close attention to the 26 discussed in the bulk of his book: Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, Milton, Dr. Johnson, Goethe, Wordsworth, Austen, Whitman, Dickinson, Dickens, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Borges, Neruda, Pessoa and Beckett. This grouping, Bloom's elite among the elite, holds few surprises: an obligatory academic obscurity (Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa), four women and a majority of D.W.E.M.s. (Bloom gives canonical status to Homer and the major Greek dramatists and philosophers but does not discuss their works...