📚The Snows of Kilimanjaro
📇Author: Ernest Hemingway
💬Language: English
🗓DOP: 1936
🌬Genre: #adventure #short_fiction

📝Summary:
A moving account of regret and redemption as Harry, a writer and man in his prime, unexpectedly faces death while stranded on the plains of Africa.

🔮Interesting Facts:
This classic Hemingway short story was originally published in Esquire magazine in 1936. It was republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories in 1938, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories in 1961, and is included in The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition

🔎Background:
He himself called his literary works biographic and according to many critics, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” can be seen as his most autobiographical one where he deals with issues having concerned him during all of his life.

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📚The Book of Questions
📇Author: Pablo Neruda
💬Language: Spanish
🗓DOP: 1974
🌬Genre: #poetry

📝Summary:
Composed of 316 unanswerable questions, these poems integrate the wonder of a child with the experiences of an adult. By turns Orphic, comic, surreal, and poignant, Neruda’s questions lead the reader beyond reason into realms of intuition and pure imagination.

🔮Interesting Facts:
In his introduction O'Daly, who has translated eight volumes of Pablo Neruda's poetry, writes, "These poems, more so than any of Neruda's other work, remind us that living in a state of visionary surrender to the elemental questions, free of the quiet desperation of clinging too tightly to answers, may be our greatest act of faith.

🔎Background:
When Neruda died in 1973, The Book of Questions was one of eight unpublished poetry manunoscripts that lay on his desk. In it, Neruda achieves a deeper vulnerability and vision than in his earlier work.

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