Para este autor, Halloween fue un hecho muy importante de su niñez y juventud, lo cual quedó reflejado en gran parte de su obra literaria. Ray afirma que necesitamos símbolos, ceremonias, y obras de arte que nos ayuden a aceptar la "realidad intolerable de la muerte".
Si querés vivir el espíritu de Halloween con la magia de Bradbury, te recomiendo "
The October Country", un libro de cuentos, que está en la biblioteca en la sección
Fiction. Su lectura requiere un nivel de inglés hi-intermediate. Otra opción del mismo autor es "
The Halloween Tree", cuya lectura es más sencilla.
También, si querés saber más sobre Ray, podés visitar su
sitio web, que incluye fotos, videos y un foro donde podés participar con tus comentarios.
Fuentes consultadas:
Mogen, David. Ray bradbury. -- Boston : Twayne, c1986. 186 p.
Hi! Jorge Luis Borges is my favorite writer and although he seems complicated, once you get his main themes, it's easier to understand him. In my opinion, The Book of Sand is the first book you should read. Borges will help you see thinks differently and make you learn about literature and other great writers of all time.
If you like science fiction, I recommend you the Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov (intermediate to hi-intemediate level reading). "In many ways, the Foundation [trilogy] is unique as a science fiction novel. The focus of the books is certainly the trends through which a civilization might progress, specifically seeking to analyze how they might progress over time, using history as a precedent. Although many science fiction novels such as Nineteen Eighty-Four or Fahrenheit 451 do this, their focus is upon how current trends in society might come to fruition, and act as a moral allegory on the modern world. The Foundation series, on the other hand, looks at the trends in a wider scope, not necessarily looking at what the societies change into, but how they change and adapt." [Read more].
