Ataraxia

  Die Panne by Friedrich Durrenmatt was translated as A Dangerous Game, and for America, it is Traps. It won the 1956 Blind War Veterans’ Prize for best radio play and the literary award of the newspaper Tribune de Lausanne     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivX3BNQF0n_nNbSINFQE1a-AIewM35Uh4hFMBCTFTwtSxMuEgzd2wq5fxnMFSmkW44By5TVdga3Nrk422H3p3nsq13euKs7rlFtVt4KdGJowiapPD0kzM6PGLxLxVmr1WnrrHO42b1uU0WieLfNKT4PmK6-H8GR_UIbxDE27VTiEQes3UdXSFRaWT8zAbO" />   8 out of 10   The Pledge https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-pledge-by-friedrich-durrenmatt-nine.html by Friedrich Durrenmatt is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, adapted for the big screen by Sean Penn, as director, and starring Jack Nicholson in the leading role, a very unusual presence at that, a challenge   This author has some very unusual oeuvres, and Die Panne aka A Dangerous Game is one of three that I have now listened to, or...

  Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie is ranked 436 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site; in 2024, it was ranked 27th in The New York Times' list of 100 best books of the 21st century. In 2022, Americanah was banned in the Clay County School District in Florida, I was not overwhelmed by it, though I would have enjoyed it more, if I knew about the MAGA ban   <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivX3BNQF0n_nNbSINFQE1a-AIewM35Uh4hFMBCTFTwtSxMuEgzd2wq5fxnMFSmkW44By5TVdga3Nrk422H3p3nsq13euKs7rlFtVt4KdGJowiapPD0kzM6PGLxLxVmr1WnrrHO42b1uU0WieLfNKT4PmK6-H8GR_UIbxDE27VTiEQes3UdXSFRaWT8zAbO" />   8 out of 10   This is one of the best books of this century, 27 th to be precise, according to The New York Times, though some books listed as the best https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/sticks-exhortation-by-george-saunders.html such as Tenth of December, have been enchanting, others, not so much, Ferrante became a disappointmen...

  Theater by Victor Eftimiu – Fetele Didinei – if we look for the author on The Greatest Books of All Time site, Victor Hugo is offered instead: he was not a major figure, not even for his own country’s literature, if I am not mistaken     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_Fw2SM-aWpQL4OfitXf2Rvs5KXReyYcgNnzIHx5TQxOG-PYqMZ_n7YVWA3m1BUy8aWrZNjZQrskibCJX2_THcuYk_WEw0LvpxOLtBzj4myBKY7sVdUaqHrh3W0dO7TNlbNSYvAHBXENfSNkecWCneuKIdN2JkF3ACbp7OGMKAzymTn3XETYYhZ2VrvkfZ" />   8 out of 10 George Constantin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-marriage-proposal-by-anton-chekhov.html was the greatest thespian for the under signed, and he is the main reason why I listened to the Victor Eftimiu play, the other is that it takes only one hour and ten minutes of my (precious) time, see Seneca   The ancient philosopher, and one of the richest men of all time, explains in his chefs d’oeuvre that life is not short, the pro...

  The Gangs of New York directed by Martin Scorsese was nominated for ten Oscars at the 2003 ceremony, notwithstanding the fact that it won none of those, it is one of The New York Time’s Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made     <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHpMRFknImr1JBOb3Pl_9tp_Wo1DWCFIIPmEfYrxGocqkiqN4H0UdKv0vsdTAmh_51ko9ZDkUYy9woIlN-pSSWKSe6djkKWtG0NKyL4h0R_UdPgCcDQbJ-xCdZtuEuVyah22gpdCxACp0PmPFmXgJwnHbQNBVYy8dCAAesNESjpGGj-SB-wuvrWE_YB7b9" /> 8 out of 10   Martin Scorsese https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/taxi-driver-screenplay-by-paul-schrader.html is one of the greatest film makers of all time, and it is interesting to read about his career, challenges, he was taking (maybe a lot of) drugs, he was hyper tense, we can see that, to some extent, even now   There are some documentaries that show us what happened, one is American Cinema, and it comes on a loop, on one of the local stations, they have Sco...

  Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/06/d... winner of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play and it is included on other prestigious lists 10 out of 10 It is for the third time that I write a note on Death of a Salesman, which is one of the best known plays, and one of the best, which has been adapted frequently, one version is included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list – by the way, you could try to check how many you have seen The tragedy of Willy Loman, the Salesman from the title that makes clear what the public has to expect, is compelling, his name suggests for some critics (or maybe most) Low Man, the essence of his position, he is man that has been defeated, albeit we could also see him fighting back, trying to recover at times Death of a Salesman brings to mind another superb play, Glengarry Glen Ross http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/05/g... by David Mamet, also a favorite, notwithstand...

  The Jerk written by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb and Michael Elias, directed by the late Carl Reiner – the main character in the film is much nicer than The Orange Jerk who presides over the free world, God damn him   <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHpMRFknImr1JBOb3Pl_9tp_Wo1DWCFIIPmEfYrxGocqkiqN4H0UdKv0vsdTAmh_51ko9ZDkUYy9woIlN-pSSWKSe6djkKWtG0NKyL4h0R_UdPgCcDQbJ-xCdZtuEuVyah22gpdCxACp0PmPFmXgJwnHbQNBVYy8dCAAesNESjpGGj-SB-wuvrWE_YB7b9" />   8 out of 10 Steve Martin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/dirty-rotten-scoundrels-with-michael.html is one of the most talented thespians ever, he is still at the top of his game, I think he was nominated again, in the past few weeks, for some Emmy awards, for his comedy series, is it Murders in The Building? We can google it   He co-wrote this comedy, in which he also has the leading role of Nevin aka Pig Eye Jackson, a man so silly we could not believe it, except of...