Arkadi & Boris Strugațki

Arkadi și Boris Strugațki sunt cunoscuți în special datorită faimoasei ecranizări a lui Andrei Tarkovski, Călăuza, după romanul lor, Picnic la marginea drumului. Hotelul “La crucea alpinistului” este un roman polițist științifico-fantatsic a cărui acțiune se petrece într-un un hotel situat în interiorul unei văi izolate din Alpi. Arkadi Strugatki (1925-1991) si Boris Strugatki (n. 1933) se numara printre cei mai cunoscuti scriitori si scenaristi SF din intreaga lume. In anii '60 ai secolului trecut, ei au revigorat, prin scrierile lor, antiutopia, devenind extrem de populari in fosta URSS. La inceputul anilor '80 li s-a interzis sa mai... publice. Din titlurile lor de mare succes fac parte romanele: E greu sa fii zeu (1964), Melcul pe panta (publicat partial in 1966), A doua venire a martienilor (1968), Picnic la marginea drumului (1971) - care a slujit ca punct de plecare pentru scenariul fimului Calauza de Andrei Tarkovski -, Impovarati de rau (1988) etc. Lupta cu raul! Dar ce este...

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Li Po

Li Po was born in central Asia. After his father moved the family back into China in 705, he started his poetic compositions. With mountains near his house, he found adventure and became a skilled swordsman and led a life of a knight-errant when he was older. Po traveled and married a daughter of a retired prime minister in 727, but soon went back to traveling the regions and neighboring countries around him. His most exciting travels were to the capital Ch’ang-an where he was presented to the emperor Hsuan-tsung and was showered with extravagant gifts. He was then appointed as a member of the Hanlin Academy and was lionized by fellow scholar-officials. The next travel he experienced was in 744. By this time he was divorced from his first wife and remarried. He was also becoming a drunk and visiting city taverns. Soon Po became known as one of the “Eight Immortals of the Wine-Cup”. During this year he was initiated in the Taoist religion along with his friend Tu Fu. After 10 years of...

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Horváth István

István Horváth (n. 10 octombrie 1909 - d. 5 ianuarie 1977), fost om de serviciu la Universitatea din Cluj, devenit redactor la „Falvak Népe” și „Utunk”. Volumul "Törik a parlagot" a obținut Premiul de Stat în 1951. În afară de acesta a mai publicat: - "Balogh Eszti hajnala" [Zorile lui Eszti Balogh] (1954), - "Krizantémok" [Crizanteme] (1960), - "Fenséges adósság" [Datorie supremă] (1962), - "A tenger hangja" [Glasul mării] (1991), la care se adaugă mai multe volume de versuri și nuvele, unele traduse și în limba română plus alte multe volume, unele publicate post-mortem. *** HORVÁTH István: rumanuja hungara poeto, verkisto (Magyarózd, 10-a de oktobro 1909 – 5-a de januaro 1977, Koloĵvaro) En 1920 li komencis la kolegion en Aiud, sed pro materialaj malfacilaĵoj ne povis fini ĝin, tial estis memlerninto. Ekde 1921 li laboris kiel agrikultura partulo en Marosdég, kiel servisto en sia naskiĝvilaĝo, en Koloĵvaro kaj Bukareŝto. Inter 1926 kaj 1940 li...

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Li Jinfa

(1901-1976) fondatorul simbolismului chinez; in tinerete socotit mai mult \"excentric\" decat poet. S-a nascut la Canton. Studii in Franta. Carti publicate: Burnita, Wei yu, 1925, Imn fericirii, Wei xingfu er ge, 1926 si Parazitul si anii teribili, Shige yu xiongnian, 1927

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Li Tai Pe

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Saadi

Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, better known by his pen-name as Saʿdī or, simply, Saadi, was one of the major Persian poets of the medieval period. He is not only famous in Persian-speaking countries, but he has also been quoted in western sources. He is recognized for the quality of his writings, and for the depth of his social and moral thoughts. A native of Shiraz, his father died when he was an infant. Saadi experienced a youth of poverty and hardship, and left his native town at a young age for Baghdad to pursue a better education. As a young man he was inducted to study at the famous an-Nizzāmīya center of knowledge (1195–1226), where he excelled in Islamic Sciences, law, governance, history, Arabic literature and theology. The unsettled conditions following the Mongol invasion of Khwarezm and Iran led him to wander for 30 years abroad through Anatolia (he visited the Port of Adana, and near...

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