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Known We especially a novel, Grammar is a sweet song (published in Italy in 2002 by Puffin as a children's book), French Erik Orsenna is what it says a versatile writer, constantly moving between fiction and nonfiction reportage. Although, as he explains in his fine site, dedicated to writing only two hours a day to have time to do other jobs, who take "informed about the universe." And from this information Orsenna drew material for his latest book, L'avenir de l'eau (Fayard) on the problem, more and more disturbing, access to water. One problem - notes on the "Nouvel Observateur - in which "nothing is simple: it is believed for example that when you install the water mains, the Third World women are freed from a gondola that eats up their time (up to four hours a day) and can thus, as it happens in Africa, to attend school. But in Afghanistan the Taliban have accelerated work on the pipelines, so as to prevent women to gather around the communal well. Thus, the tap at home is transformed into a second burka. "

Oddly enough, a review is likely too keen to do more damage than a slating. Although, Joe Queenan notes in The New York Times, many writers are not willing to admit that Awards received went beyond their merits. He does Dave Barry once described - just the New York Times - as "the funniest man in America." Author of books actually very funny (as Big Trouble, released in Italy by Instar), Barry Queenan has confessed to her embarrassment in front of this hyperbole: "It's a ridiculous statement, not even the funniest man of my neighborhood. It is even more ridiculous when the meetings come pompously presented with that label, as if the entire editorial staff of the Times had given its decision after having reviewed all Americans. " We do not know but what did you think Alice Munro, whose stories were compared in an article 'a big dish of Beluga caviar, serve with a spoonful of pearl. "

The Guardian, at a London festival dedicated to TS Eliot, Jeanette Winterson recalls his encounter with the work of the great author, and especially with the power of poetry. The adoptive mother, a strict Pentecostal home only admitted in the Bible and thrillers. One day he sent his daughter to take to the library, "Murder in the Cathedral." "He thought it was a saga of murder monks. In the library, opened it, it seemed to be a short yellow. I had never heard of Eliot, but I read a verse, she spoke of a "lightning painful joy," and began to cry. The others looked at me with a reproachful look, and the librarian scolded me, so I went out with the book and read it from top to bottom sitting on the steps in the cold north wind. "

(from the "manifesto", November 22, 2008)

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Different looks on the world to come

More than forty years away from Apocalyptic and integrated, the question remains the same: in front of advancing to the future, and that does not resemble what we had imagined, we must open the champagne or tear your hair? Share the dark vision of the American poet Robert Bly's argument that, thanks to the Internet, "the brain's neocortex is autodivorando" (like saying that young people are, literally drinking the brain)? O together with the exultation Canadian essayist Don Tapscott, who in his book Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World , just released in the United States, paints a very positive picture of the boys today? Bring the two points of view, a review volume output in the latest edition of the 'Economist', describing how Tapscott's optimism is based on a study of costs four and a half million dollars in twelve countries and brought about eight thousand people born between 1978 and 1994. So, up the cups: thanks to SMS, to Facebook and video games, the Net Generation is "the most intelligent that ever appeared on earth," a statement, said the Canadian scholar, based on the latest research in neuroscience. Only two factors hamper the enthusiasm of Tapscott: the educational system, which many countries do not keep pace with these changes prodigious, and the absolute disregard for the privacy of young people between the ages of fifteen and thirty years. In fact, glosses' the Economist, more and more young jobseekers who "are rejected by potential employers become skilled at detecting on Facebook and MySpace clues to the nature and behavior of prospective employees." A truly inexplicable naivete, in a generation so brilliant.

just fought on our relationship to the world that will be queries the English philosopher Daniel Innerarity (author inter alia of two essays was published by Meltemi, society and invisible The new public space) in an interview exit to the "Nouvel Observateur" under the title The future is not must be the dustbin of this . According Innerarity "democratic societies have a good relationship with the future, because the political system and culture in general are geared toward the immediate present. In the face of our collective future attitude of precaution and improvisation ... as compared to a reality that can lead to problems. " This attitude, says the philosopher, it ends up have the traits of a true "time-colonialism": "We act as if godessimo a kind of impunity with respect to the future which we are the squatters, the illegal occupants." Convinced that "the interdependence of generations requires a new model of social contract," Innerarity becomes champion of "a skeptical optimist" and a "democratic hope": "policy - he says - must learn to manage post-heroic disappointment, considering it an open space of possibility. "

(from the "manifesto", 15 November 2008) Signing

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Three success stories

excellent New Yorker and author of two papers that have had great international success, The Tipping Point and Blink ( The Tipping Point, Bur, and In the blink of an eye , Mondadori), Malcolm Gladwell has dedicated his new book, Outliers - to be released in the U.S. in ten days after being one of the few titles to appeal to Buchmesse - precisely the mechanisms behind the success stories. Mechanisms, the same journalist said in an interview on his self- site, far more complex than to suggest these textbooks, so common in the United States, promising to reveal the seven golden rules to get ahead in life. "What I learned writing the book - Gladwell points out - is that so far there have focused mainly on individual stories, describing the characteristics and personality of the figures of success ... but maybe we should look around, their culture, their community, their family, their generation. We turned our eyes on the highest trees, instead of observing the forest. " And with the cunning of those who knew, if nothing else, how to attract the attention of readers, Gladwell throws some bait that will certainly Outliers blockbusters, at least in the U.S.. In one chapter, for example, the author observes how a surprising number among the most powerful lawyers in New York has biographical data similar men are Jews, born in the mid- Thirty in the Bronx or Brooklyn to immigrant parents who worked in the textile industry. "Now, can anyone say that this is a coincidence. Or you can ask - as I did - what are the elements that make a jew boy, raised in certain conditions in the years of the Depression, a lawyer of extraordinary success. And my answer to this question is that you can learn many things about the various causes that lead a person at the height of that profession. " A pause

autogrill to go to the toilet is certainly not a memorable experience. But, notes Janet Maslin in The New York Times, in the hands of Stephen King is also a situation like this commonplace is transformed into a potential nightmare. Of the thirteen stories that comprise her latest collection, Just After Sunset , three in fact are in fact set in the cramped and not very welcoming of a public toilet. In this book, note Maslin, King continues, if ever proof were needed, a relentless story-teller, and fast, "one of the stories was written in the few hours spent in a hotel room in Australia, just to kill a bit 'of time. "

one another bestseller. Lots of comments, of course, on the death of Michael Crichton. Among other things, to Charles McGrath, still the New York Times: Crichton, critic writes, "looked like a character from a novel by Michael Crichton. He was unusually tall, incredibly handsome and had an encyclopedic knowledge ranging from dinosaurs to medieval banquets to nanotechnology. As a writer, was a kind of cyborg, always ready to churn out novels were sophisticated entertainment systems. Nobody, except perhaps Crichton himself, has ever confused with great literature, but few were the readers who have stopped reading halfway. "