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Xingxu Ma – In the mirror (镜中)

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Xingxu Ma – Máster in International Development. School of Global and Public Affairs. Reading: In the mirror (镜中) by Zhang Zao (张枣), 1984. Merely looking back on life there are regrets And plum blossoms would be snowing down Such as watching her swim to the other side of the river Such as climbing a […]

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Jesús Pascual – If to recover what was recovered

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Jesús Pascual – Communications – Content Manager. IE University. Reading: If to recover what was recovered (Si para recobrar lo recobrado) by Francisco Luis Bernárdez from the book Cielo de tierra (1937). If to recover what was recovered I had to first lose what was lost, I have well suffered what was suffered, I […]

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Aino Tenhiälä – Squirrel’s Song

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Aino Tenhiälä – Professor of Organizational Behavior. IE Business School. Singing a song: Squirrel’s Song (Oravan laulu) by Aleksis Kivi (1834 – 1872). Sweetly a little squirrel lies in his moss room the place that wolf’s teeth or hunter’s trap could never reach. From his high chamber he looks at the world many battles […]

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Ángel Alonso Arroba – Tobacco Shop

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Ángel Alonso Arroba – Vice Dean for Management & Development. IE School of Global & Public Affairs. Reading: Tobacco Shop (Tabaquería) by Fernando Pessoa (1888 – 1935). I am nothing I shall never be anything I cannot want to be anything. Aside from that, I have within me all the dreams of the world […]

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Andy Jiang – Farewells Over Grasslands (賦得古原草送別)

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Andy Jiang – Asia Regional Director. IE University. Reading: Farewells Over Grasslands (賦得古原草送別) by : Bai Juyi (772 – 846). Extending for miles and miles is a field of grass, Year after year it shrivels and grows back. It never burns out in bush fires, Spring breezes would always life revive. In the distance, […]

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Mathieu Doré – Le Horla (Excerpt)

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Mathieu Doré – Bachelor in economics. IE University. Reading: Le Horla (Excerpt) by : Guy de Maupassant (1886). Whence do these mysterious influences come, which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence? One might almost say that the air, the invisible air is full of unknowable Forces, whose mysterious presence we […]

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Nevo Marcus – I Have No Other Country

8 months ago2911 0

Nevo Marcus – BBA student. IE University. Reading: I have no other country (אין לי ארץ אחרת) by : Ehud Manor (1941 – 2005 | Lyrics) and Corinne Elal (Music). I have no other country, Though she’s burning, torn asunder. Just a word in my native tongue delves In my veins, and in my […]

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María Antonia Franco Lopera – The oblivion that we shall be

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María Antonia Franco Lopera – IE School of Architecture & Design. IE University. Reading: The oblivion that we shall be (El olvido que seremos) by Jorge Luis Borges (1899 – 1986). Already we are the oblivion that we shall be. The elemental dust that does not know us And that was red Adam and that now […]

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Nicholas Kattar – Ed è subito sera

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Nicholas Kattar – International Relations – School of Global Public Affairs. IE University. Reading: Ed è subito sera by Salvatore Quasimodo (1942). Translation by Matilda Colarossi. We all stand alone on the heart of the earth pierced by a ray of the sun’s light: and then it is night. — Ognuno sta solo sul […]

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Goretti González – Invisible Cities (Excerpt)

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Goretti González – Visiting Professor & Academic Coordinator of Humanities, IE School of Global & Public Affairs. IE University. Reading: Excerpt of Invisible Cities (Le città invisibili) by Italo Calvino (1972). Already the Great Khan was leafing through his atlas, over the maps of the cities that menace in nightmares and maledictions: Enoch, Babylon, Yahool […]

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