How to Read Donal Duck. Dorfman & Mattelard
This book was burnt by the Pinochet Government in Chile, censored in Argentina and banned in the USA in 1975. It is a classic popular study on cultural imperialism and children's literature.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Paulo Freire.
It deals with the philosophy of education for the practice of freedom. It is based in the conviction that every human being, no matter how ignorant or how submerged in the "culture of silence" is capable of looking critically at reality and transform it.
One Hundred Years Of Solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
It made me think about literary possibilities. How to think about time, history and memory. How history, culture, magic and the supernatural can be expressed.
The Catcher in The Rye. J.D. Salinger.
I identified with Holden when I was 19, and felt that Salinger understood.
It is towards the end of the book when Holden decides that he would leave and take off to California or somewhere. He wants before he leaves, to give a note to his sister and takes it the her school. When he’s going upstairs to the Principal's office to deliver it he sees the word “Fuck you” written on the wall and he erases it. He didn’t want the children to think about it and to worry. But when he comes back downstairs by a different staircase he sees another “fuck you” on the wall. He says : “ I tried to rub it off with my hand again, but this one was scratched on, with a knife or something. It wouldn’t come off. It’s hopeless, anyway. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the “Fuck you” signs in the world. It’s
impossible."
Sister Outsider. Audre Lorde.
For many things, and her essay Poetry is not A Luxury.
"For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt - of examining what those ideas feel like being lived on a Sunday morning at 7 A.M., after brunch, during wild love, making war, giving birth, mourning the dead - while we suffer the old longings, battle the old warnings and fears of being silent and impotent and alone, while we taste new possibilities and strengths."
There are many many more.....
