Art Essays

内田樹＆平川克美メールマガジン「大人の条件」2016年9月号より ■『国際市場で逢いましょう』2014年の公開以来、韓国歴代2位、1400万人の動員を数えた韓国映画『国際市場で逢いましょう』。この映画をご覧になった方はいらっしゃいますか。 第二次世界大戦後、ある韓国人の家族の70年を、特にその主人公がどのように生きたかを描いた映画です。日本にも同じような時代を描いた『三丁目の夕日』という映画がありますが、映画の中で起きる出来事は日本と韓国ではずいぶん違います。大戦後の日本という国と朝鮮半島の国々の政治や暮らしの状況はまるで違ったからです。一部映画のネタバレがありますが、日韓の歴史を振り返ってみましょうか。（本文より） 内田樹&平川克美の「大人の条件」はこちらから→http://yakan-hiko.com/uchida.html

車にしろ、服にしろ、靴やバッグにしろ、ぼくはあまりブランドにはこだわら ない人間なのですけど、ことノートブックに関してはもう何年もの間、モレスキ ンに愛着を持っています。 　一概にモレスキンと言っても、今では電話帳からラージサイズの日記まで、い ろいろと品揃えが豊富になりました。ぼくの好きなのは高さ21cm横13cm、オイル クロスで覆われた硬い表紙の黒のハードカバーで、ゴムバンド、しおり、拡張ポ ケット付きのクラシック・ノートブック・ハードカバー・ルールド（横罫）の、 ポケットサイズのものです。（本文より） ロバート・ハリス　運命のダイスを転がせ！ はこちらから→http://yakan-hiko.com/robert.html

先日、六本木で起きた傷害致死事件の被告に対し、懲役22年が求刑されて話題となりました。男は関東連合の幹部で、海老蔵暴行事件でも名前の出た石元被告です。殺人ではなく傷害致死、それも直接参加はしていない連絡係という役回りにも関わらず22年という求刑からは、検察の関東連合潰しへの強い執念を感じます。彼ら関東連合とは何者なのでしょうか？　また、従来のヤクザ組織と何がどう違うのでしょうか？ ちょうどそうしたつながりがよく分かる優れた書籍が2冊ほど世に出ました。経済・雇用関連を除く一般書籍の中では、個人的に一番のヒットだったように思います。単純に読み物として面白いのにくわえ、この二冊を続けて読むと「アウトローのキャリアデザイン」まで理解できるという優れモノです。(本文より） 城繁幸の『サラリーマン・キャリアナビ』★出世と喧嘩の正しい作法はこちらから→http://yakan-hiko.com/joe.html

We live in a world where smart fridges are more articulate than most politicians, where the leaders of two nuclear powers engage in a battle of elementary school wits, and where every fact can be dismissed as fake news. Sometimes it seems like the only humor left is tinged with bitterness and despair. Robert Isenberg doesn’t believe that’s true. He knows it’s possible to find humor - true humor - everywhere.

In Beg, Borrow, Steal Michael Greenberg regales us with his wry and vivid take on the life of a writer of little means trying to practice his craft or simply stay alive. He finds himself doctoring doomed movie scripts; selling cosmetics from an ironing board in front of a women's department store; writing about golf, a game he has never played; and botching his debut as a waiter in a posh restaurant.

Giovanni Pascoli, in omaggio alla sua Ravenna, si unisce a Dante, che là compì la sua grande opera, per comunicarci bagliori di quella “mirabile visione” che è apparsa a Dante ragazzo, e poi l’ha ritrovato maturo, costretto suo malgrado a seguire quella vita contemplativa che, da ragazzo, era stata una sua aspirazione, e che era poi stata trascurata per smarrirsi nella selva di una vita politica.

Wifredo Lam is by far the most celebrated, and most people would say the greatest, artist produced by the Caribbean region in modern times. His relationship with where he came from is, however, extraordinarily complex - much more complex than most of his admirers suppose, largely because they usually have no direct experience of the region and little knowledge of its social history.

Der Autor Wilhelm von Kügelgen (1772-1820) beschreibt detailliert seine Kindheit und Jugend am Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts. Er berichtet über die Kriege zwischen Napoleon und den Russen, über Hunger, seine Schulzeit und die Reisen und Freunde der Künstlerfamilie. Regie: Stefanie Hoster.

Un'ereditiera californiana viene rapita dall'Esercito di liberazione simbionese, diventa l'amante di uno dei terroristi e terrorista lei stessa, poi sposa la sua guardia del corpo e va a vivere con figli e cani in una casa finto-spagnola iper-blindata. Una banchiera d'affari di Manhattan mentre fa jogging a Central Park viene aggredita da sei adolescenti neri e ispanici, stuprata, torturata con dei rami e ridotta in fin di vita.

This striking new collection exemplifies the way in which Mendelsohn - a classicist by training - uses the classics as a lens to think about urgent contemporary debates. There is much to surprise here. Mendelsohn invokes the automatons featured in Homer’s epics to help explain the AI films Ex Machina and Her and perceives how Ted Hughes sought redemption by translating a play of Euripides (the ‘bad boy of Athens’) about a wayward husband whose wife returns from the dead.

Mittels ihrer Religion richten Menschen ihr Leben an Konzepten eines "sinngebenden Ganzen" aus. Diese in sehr langen Traditionen entstandenen Welterklärungen und Anleitungen zur Lebensbewältigung werden in der westlichen Welt aufgrund christlicher und humanistischer Traditionen häufig mit der Kurzformel "Glaube" zusammengefasst...

Qui aurait pensé faire appel aux grands noms de la philosophie occidentale pour analyser les oeuvres artistiques du hip-hop, décortiquer les textes de chansons, les graffitis au mur, le travail des DJ et l'art des danseurs urbains? Le professeur de philosophie et spécialiste du rap Jérémie McEwen, bien sûr. Dans ce livre, il bâtit des ponts entre la philosophie occidentale traditionnelle et le hip-hop américain afin de mieux comprendre les racines de ce mouvement culturel mondial.

When Tim O’Brien became an older father, he resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him - a few scraps of paper signed ‘Love, Dad’. Maybe a word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some scattered glimpses of their rapidly ageing father, a man they might never really know. For the next 15 years, the author talked to his sons on paper, as if they were adults, imagining what they might want to hear from a father who was no longer among the living.

Award-winning author Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of the world's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers. In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways they surface in their work.

Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. You are born into a family, and those are your people, and they know you and they love you, and if you are lucky they even, on occasion, manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is never enough.

Paradoxe entre l’abondance pour le consommateur et ses choix de plus en plus restreints ; mépris  de la propriété intellectuelle, donc incapacité  d’assurer un revenu décent aux créateurs ; modèle  d’affaires ne servant que les monopoles (70 % à  85 % des revenus publicitaires engrangés par  Google, YouTube, Facebook, Netflix… ) ; "indifférence" politico­juridique, car les gouvernements  ne semblent pas vouloir remédier à cette situation.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.

An essay from Things I've Learned From the Women Who've Dumped Me.