Vikend sam takoreci provela u Italiji. Ok, uglavnom u krevetu (sa izletima do kuhinje, pravljenje cokoladne pene - subota, tople cokolade - nedelja), citajuci Komo, Srdjana Valjarevica. O knjizi je vec pisano i pricano, svima se mnogo svidela, meni takodje, i prijala, isto toliko. (Bice o njoj jos reci, na Yahti
Onda, izasla je i jedna knjiga o Italijanima. Pise NYT:
In Italy, red lights come in many varieties. A rare few actually mean stop. Others, to the Italian driver, suggest different interpretations. At a pedestrian crossing at 7 a.m., with no pedestrians around, it is a “negotiable red,” more like a weak orange. At a traffic intersection, red could mean what the Florentines call rosso pieno, or full red, but it might, with no cars coming, be more of a suggestion than a command. It all depends.
The red-light mentality, as the journalist Beppe Severgnini sees it, explains volumes about Italy and the Italians. “We think it’s an insult to our intelligence to comply with a regulation,” he writes in “La Bella Figura,” his witty, insightful tour of the Italian mind. “Obedience is boring. We want to think about it. We want to decide whether a particular law applies to our specific case. In that place, at that time.”
Beppe, naravno, ima i svoj sajt.
Kad sam vec pocela, da zavrsim sa predstavljanjem svoje letnje literature.
Procitala sam 'Talasanje Srbije', knjigu Dusana Masica o B92. Knjiga je fenomenalna. Najvise stilski i metodoloski, ne znam zasto autor kaze da vise nece pisati knjige i da mu to ne lezi, jer je to u oblasti publicistike by far najmoderniji napisana knjiga kod nas.
Takodje sam procitala 'Beli zubi', Zejdi Smit, multikulturalni zivot Londona, dopala mi se, ali ne bas toliko koliko su preporuke bile jake, ne znam zasto, valjda sto mi ni jedan lik nije bio toliko blizak.
I jos 'Straight Up and Dirty', by Stephanie Klein, blogerka iz Amerike. Njena ispovest. Tu sam znala sve sta ce biti, prijala mi je iz nekoliko razloga, nesto sam i otkrila u vezi knjige i nesto sam napisala i pricala u vezi toga, ali me mrzi da to sad ponovim, uglavnom ja sam google detektiv i analyst, sta god zli jezici rekli...
/Srđan Valjarević, Zadie Smith, Dušan Mašić/
