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CULTURE CALENDAR
Italian Culture Institute Belgrade
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On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri (Florence, 1265 - Ravenna, 1321), the Italian Institute of Culture in Belgrade presents an audio book “From the Dark Forest to Paradise: A Path through Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy in Thirty-Three Languages”, dedicated once of the most significant literary works of all time, which provides a wide selection of this song in thirty-three different languages. The audio book was prepared by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation together with the Municipality of Ravenna and in cooperation with the Teatro delle Albe / Ravenna Theater, and published by the publishing house Emons Audiolibri.
French-Serbian Film Meetings
1-3 December, Kombank Hall
As part of the Author’s Film Festival (26 November – 3 December), the sixth French-Serbian Film Meetings will be held from 1 to 3 December, organized by the French Institute, MegaCom Film, the Film Center of Serbia, the Ministry of Culture of Serbia and the Association for the Promotion of Independent Film ACID. The meetings will crown the successful film cooperation between France and Serbia through activities dedicated to the Seventh Art. Despite the difficult circumstances, due to the sanitary crisis, the French Institute and partners will work hard this year to deepen French-Serbian film cooperation, through topics for students and young professionals, exchange of good practices and activities aimed at strengthening the film capacities of these two countries. Belgrade will host French film experts who will exchange experiences with their Serbian colleagues on sustainable practices during filming, while representatives of the Young Ambassadors, the Serbian Cinema Screening Network, LUX Cinema and the ACID Association for the Promotion of Independent Film will hold a workshop on young audience development.
Club de lectura: “Las mujeres de la guerra, od Andrea Amosson”
16 December – Instituto Cervantes
At the next readers ’club of Instituto Cervantes, there will be talk about Andree Amosson’s novel Las mujeres de la guerra. Everyone is invited to participate with comments, questions, recommendations in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere. The writer creates in a very easy way and with a lot of narrative ability, a historical novel that brings to the fore the forgotten heroines of all wars, those who sustain life contrary to any logic when the horror on the battle front was already released. Plot: Vera Ninković comes to Chile with her husband, a North American naturalist. The war of the Pacific begins in this area, which was not hers, but resembled the rage she experienced in the Balkans. The book is available in the electronic library of the Cervantes Institute.
Halloween: The Official Movie Novelization
John Passarella 1052rsd
In 1978, Laurie Strode survived an encounter with Michael Myers, a masked figure who killed her friends and terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night. Myers was later gunned down, apprehended and committed to Smith’s Grove State Hospital. For forty years, memories of that nightmarish ordeal have haunted Laurie and now Myers is back once again on Halloween, having escaped a routine transfer, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. This time, Laurie is prepared with years of survival training to protect herself, her daughter Karen and her granddaughter Allyson, a teenager separated from her family and enjoying Halloween festivities.
The New Annotated
H. P. Lovecraft 3887rsd
“Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period’s most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures”, writes Alan Moore. But at the time of his death, Lovecraft was maligned by critics and ignored by the public. Leslie S. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft and charts the rise of the pulp writer. Lovecraft’s vast body of work-a mythos in which humanity is a blissfully unaware speck in a cosmos shared by ancient alien beings-is increasingly being recognised as the foundation for American horror and science fiction. With nearly 300 illustrations and more than 1,000 annotations, Klinger illuminates every hidden dimension of 22 of Lovecraft’s most canonical works.
Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde 769 rsd
Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits, and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait, rather than on Dorian’s own face. The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance, reality, art, life, truth, fiction and the ultimate burden of conscience.
The Midnight Palace
Carlos Ruiz Zafon 1214rsd
1916, Calcutta. A man pauses for breath outside the ruins of Jheeter’s Gate station knowing he has only hours to live. Pursued by assassins, he must ensure the safety of two newborn twins, before disappearing into the night to meet his fate. 1932. Ben and his friends are due to leave the orphanage which has been their home for sixteen years. Tonight will be the final meeting of their secret club, in the old ruin they christened The Midnight Palace. Then Ben discovers he has a sister - and together they learn the tragic story of their past, as a shadowy figures lures them to a terrifying showdown in the ruins of Jheeter’s Gate station.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle 404rsd
From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr Watson. This classic collection of Holmes tales includes many of the detective’s mostloved exploits: Holmes is confronted by a venomous snake in ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’, mystified by a missing thumb in ‘The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb’ and beguiled by a beautiful opera singer in ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, never once losing his famous cool.
The Women of Troy
Pat Barker 1700rsd
Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. ‘Taut, masterly, wholly absorbing. Still one of the greatest stories ever written. A book that will be read in generations to come’ Daily Telegraph on The Silence of the Girls Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors remain in limbo - camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, kept company by the women they stole from it.
