In 1932, Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the most significant composers of the 20th century, started writing a satirical opera that he ultimately left unfinished. Its title, Orango, refers to the name of the unlikely protagonist of an almost surreal plot about the life of a Parisian journalist, a hybrid between a man and an ape. […]
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The Physician who Claimed Souls Weigh 21 Grams
It’s possible that many readers have seen the movie 21 Grams (directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu), in which Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, and Benicio Del Toro, among others, portray a series of interconnected stories around a car accident. Guillermo Arriaga, the screenwriter, took the title from a historical episode that the French writer André Maurois […]
