by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Apr 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
ogo: Hey, Didi, did you hear? We’re the heroes of a literary blog. How da ya like that? Didi: What’s a hero? Don’t tell me. Somebody who hears well. To hear is heavenly, to err divine. Gogo: To err divine? How can...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Apr 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
ne feature of living in a foreign country is that you get a glimpse not only of the current political issues but also the larger trends floating around. I will always remember after Colin Powell presented so called evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Apr 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
ot long ago on the radio I heard a solo piano piece called, I thought, “le Rossignol a disparu.” This means the nightingale has disappeared. Ah, just like Milan Kundera’s nightingale, I thought, who has also disappeared. The nightingale for him is an image...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Apr 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
t is no wonder that Samuel Beckett set his play, Waiting for Godot, in the French countryside with a leafless tree and a moon for company. I believe the two vagabonds wandering around the countryside were on the run from French politics. France is having its first...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Apr 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
recently listened to a podcast by writer and teacher Maryama Antoine, called, “Toni Morrison, on the pursuit of goodness.” Ah, that word, “goodness.” And when I wondered which French text had to do with goodness, I thought of The Little Prince by French...