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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

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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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Johanna Jakobi – Sea (Meer)

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Johanna Jakobi – BBA & BIR Class Representative. IE University. Reading: Sea (Meer) by Erich Fried (1921 – 1988). When you meet the sea you should begin to be silent at the endmost blades of grass you should lose the thread and breathe in the salty foam and the sharp hiss of the wind and […]

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Alex Luzar – Invictus

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Alex Luzar – Associate Director – Talent Careers. IE Business School. Reading: Invictus by William Ernest Hensley (1875). Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried […]

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Ines De Francisco – I came down giving you my arm

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Ines De Francisco – BBA Student. IE University. Reading: I came down giving you my arm (Ho sceso dandoti il braccio) by Eugenio Montale (1896 – 1981). I went down a million stairs, at least, arm in arm with you. And now that you are not here, I feel emptiness at each step. Our long […]

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Gabriel Menzies – In Flanders Fields

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Gabriel Menzies – BBA Student. IE University. Reading: In Flanders Fields by John McCrae (1872 – 1918). In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days […]

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Pablo Picó – I am who I am (Só qui só)

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Pablo Picó Salort – 1St Year BBA-BIR (Dual Degree). IE University. Reading: I am who I am (Só qui só) by Joan de Timoneda (between 1518 and 1520-1583). I am who I am, I am not me, I am transformed by love. I certainly believe that I am nothing, or if I am something, […]

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