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Festival Internacional Literatura e Língua Portuguesa

O Festival Lisboa 5L é o novo festival literário de Lisboa, que decorre entre 5 e 9 de maio de 2021 em teatros, cinema, livrarias e nas ruas, largos e praças da cidade. Organizado pela Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, o Lisboa 5L celebra o Dia Mundial da Língua Portuguesa e promove a Língua, a Literatura, os Livros, as Livrarias, a Leitura, os Autores e os seus Leitores.

¿Con ganas de sacarte un título de inglés que te dé nuevas posibilidades de empleo o una beca para estudiar en el extranjero? Ahora que el covid-19 está tan presente en nuestras vidas la idea de escaparnos una temporada fuera para aprender idiomas se ha quedado muy atrás pero, siempre hay buenas oportunidades.

Technique is the main concern of an artistic writer, and subject-matter is the general anguish of a propagandistic writer, says G. Orwell^[1] (1). Art is possible in quiet moral ages, he says. Propaganda, therefore, is the fruit of unquiet moral ages, in which the “whole scheme of values is constantly menaced”. Such constant moral fear transforms the literary criticism, which is “judicious, scrupulous, fair-minded”, into something impossible. Objectivity, that is, “intellectual detachment”, is the origin of the universal masterpiece. Is the Defoe's Robinson Crusoe a technical and objective book or is it mere English propaganda? Four thesis extracted from our propagandistic experience will test the famous book of Defoe.

^[1] See The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda, published in the Listener, April 30, 1941. I offer Spanish translation in Don Palafox: donpalafox.blogspot.com/2018/12/fronteras-del-arte-y-la-propaganda.html

Jorge Luis Borges asseverates in scarce, arid lines, that F. S. Fitzgerald, whose vital mission was “to be brave”, represents, more than other authors of the American Jazz Age, the World War I´s post-days^[1]. The Great Gatsby^[2], ergo, is a historic document. H. L. Mencken declares that the Gatsby´s plot is just a “glorified anecdote” developed in “bawdy house parties”, in colorful fallacies that are inhabited by “marionettes”. Such an anecdote is valuable, he affirms, due to “the charm and beauty of the writing”, due to the sentences, which “roll along smoothly, sparklingly, variously”^[3]. We will test these three adjectives.

Si estás interesado en el ámbito de la educación, tener dominio del inglés es fundamental. Ya sea que estés buscando cómo aprender inglés británico o inglés estadounidense, debes saber que lo ideal es siempre estudiar con profesores particulares de inglés o participar en algún programa de intercambio cultural, que tenga relación con tus estudios en tu país de origen, y te permita una experiencia de inmersión total.