It is with heavy hearts that we say farewell to Professor Emeritus Heisuke Hironaka, who passed away at the age of 94. He received his graduate degree from Harvard in 1960 under the direction of Oscar Zariski and joined the Harvard faculty in 1968. https://t.co/G88jzQ8tzp
🗣️"M’encanta Barcelona, però no m’encanta en el sentit romantitzable, sinó que m’agrada perquè és el bastió que hem de defensar com a país. És la nostra Barcelona"
🔶 Entrevista a l'escriptora Etna Miró
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#OnThisDay in 2001, at the age of 57, the German writer W. G. Sebald died while driving his car. In a special post we feature the many public domain books of which, and through which, Sebald speaks in his masterpiece The Rings of Saturn (1995) — https://t.co/H4GEOxcL4C #otd
This year’s #NobelPrize laureate in literature László Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize 2025 to professor Masaki Kashiwara. Kashiwara-san is the first Japanese mathematician to receive the Abel Prize.
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@lauraa394@ToIkienverse Fa massa anys que ho procrastino, crec que ha arribat el moment (és a dir, en un futur indeterminat però relativament immediat 😂)
«A la vora del fossat de la fortalesa de Breendonk vaig acabar de llegir el capítol cinquè de "Heschel's Kingdom", i després vaig tornar caminant a Mechelen, on vaig arribar quan començava a fer-se fosc.»
W. G. Sebald, "Austerlitz"
Traducció d'Anna Soler Horta
En el centenari de la mort de Franz Kafka, volem donar les gràcies als professionals que l'han traduït al català: Pilar Estelrich, Gabriel Ferrater, Feliu Formosa, Jordi Llovet, Joan Fontcuberta, Josep Murgades, Anna Punsoda, Lluís Solà, Clara Formosa, Joan Ferrarons.