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Jack Kerouac
Kerouac is the most famous native son of Lowell, Massachusetts. During the period in New York City, Kerouac became friends with the poet Allen Ginsberg and the novelist William Burroughs, as well as Herbert Huncke and... Read more
Franz Kafka
Novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by b... Read more
The xylography
Xylography didn't appear in print in English until 1816, but it is linked to printing practices that are much older. In fact, the oldest known printed works (from Japan and China in the 8th and 9th centuries) were mad... Read more
The adventures of Pinocchio
Centuries ago there lived... «A king!" my little readers will say immediately. No, children, you are mistaken. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thi... Read more
Bruno Munari
Bruno Munari was an Italian artist, designer and inventor who contributed fundamentals to man fields of visual arts (painting, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphic design) in modernism, futurism and concrete ar... Read more
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez, known as Gabo, was considered one of most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Gabo wrote mani acclaimed non-ficti... Read more
Magic Realism
Coined in the 1920s by German critic Franz Roh, the term "Magic Realism" meant a post-expressionist German pictorial movement, later extended into literature, often associated with the literary boom in Latin America i... Read more
Victor Hugo
This book, Les Misérables, is no less your mirror than ours. Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book, – I understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent ... Read more