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Diego Díaz – The bullfight and death

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Diego Díaz – Master in Management. IE Business School. Reading: The bullfight and death (La cogida y la muerte) by Federico García Lorca (1935). At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five o’clock in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A shovel of lime was already prepared […]

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Víctor Redondo – The bird in the nest

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Víctor Redondo – Master in Management. IE Business School. Reading: The bird in the nest (El ave y el nido) by Salomé Ureña (1850 – 1897). Why do you startle, simple bird, and fix your gaze upon me? I have no intention, little one, of taking your nest away from here. Here, in the hollow […]

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Flor Pierina – Fear

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Flor Pierina – Master in Management. IE Business School. Reading: Fear (Miedo) by Andres Eloy Blanco (1896 – 1955). The shadow of a doubt on me rises when the lullaby of your voice reaches my ear; afraid to meet you; but in fear there is so much passion, it seems to me that I have […]

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Hamed AlHabsi – The Winds of Time (excerpt)

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Hamed AlHabsi – Master in Management. IE Business School. Reading: The Winds of Time (Upepo wa Waka) by Euphrase Kezilahabi (1974). One day I stood on a small hill looking down at the lake on the day of storms. I watched the waves rising and falling. Swelling swirling, churning and spuming foam like mad […]

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Pietro Zimmitti – The Infinity

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Pietro Zimmitti – Master in Management student. IE Business School. Reading: The Infinity (L´Infinito) by Giacomo Leopardi (1798 – 1837). This lonely hill has always been dear to me And this hedge, which bars the horizon’s view, I think of them often, both the longings they renew While seated here, and when, the end […]

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Victoria Gimeno – Arrest of Antoñito el Camborio on the Road to Seville

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Victoria Gimeno – Director – Institutional Relations in Admissions & Enrollment. IE University. Reading: Arrest of Antoñito el Camborio on the Road to Seville (Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio en el Camino de Sevilla) by Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 – 1936). Antonio Torres Heredia, son and grandson of Camborios, a willow wand in his […]

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Federico Opperti – Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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Federico Opperti – LLB degree – IE Law School. IE University. Reading: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost (1874 – 1963). Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. […]

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Fatima Ezzahra Tajani – I want a Gun (أريد بندقية)

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Fatima Ezzahra Tajan – Law Student IE Law School. IE University. Reading: I want a Gun (أريد بندقية) by Nizar Kabbani (1923 – 1998). I want a gun. I sold my mother’s ring for a gun I pawned my purse for a gun The language in which we studied, the books in which we […]

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Mario Sans Majuelo – A way of looking at the world

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Mario Sans Majuelo – Student LLB-BIR. IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs. Reading: A way of looking at the world (Munduari begiratzeko) by Kirmen Uribe (2009). A way of singing with old friends, A way of sunbathing, leaning against a wall, A way of knowing how to wait. A way of caressing […]

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