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1) "Reading at Random with Virginia Woolf", ensaio de Frances Lindemann para The Paris Review:
"Mrs. Ramsay’s triumph, and Virginia Woolf’s ideal, is communication without need of language. This would seem, on the face of things, to be precisely the opposite of reading or writing; and yet the moment of silent communion is enabled only by the long scene of reading that precedes it, just as reading is a precursor to that moment of recognition, that state of mind in which one can shut the book, having absorbed its voice as though it were one’s own. The reader-writer relationship models this possibility of shared consciousness."
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2) "Why I learned to love Islamic mysticism - Henry Corbin uncovers the roots of secular malaise", artigo de Rob Doyle para Unherd:
"The beating heart of Corbin’s work is what he called the mundus imaginalis, or imaginal world. The former is Corbin’s direct translation of the Arabic term found recurrently across centuries of Sufi thought: the Alam al-Mithal (the world of images). So, Corbin did not invent this notion, but unearthed and reanimated it for a Western mind which had long lost sight of it. The mundus imaginalis is an ontologically real zone of 'metaphysical images' that exists in between the senses and the intellect, between pure matter and pure spirit."
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3) "Does reading do us any good?", ensaio de Flora Champy para Aeon:
"Today, people seem to turn much more willingly to therapists, experts or influencers to make sense of their lives. Yet I would argue that now may be a good moment for reconsidering the role of literature as the key to personal freedom – precisely because it is no longer the most common or most prestigious medium for interpreting experience."
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