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Saturday 17 July from 11 clock in the house

After a large-scale clearing out the entire house, must now include many small demolition work is carried out:

Furthermore plaster removal and surface cleaning in the vaulted cellars

cleaning the rooms of even present for construction waste, waste, and wallpapers
Other smaller works ...

>> For food & beverage, as always, provided
>> All the construction worker inside who want to pitch in, so on Saturday are welcome to come.

Thank you - ISZ Stuttgart team

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What we really Woll'n - Janine Wolf

The German Department of the People's University of Cáceres (Spain) has organized in cooperation with Extrema'doc a film series. One of the films that I have looked at me, made me very interested. So I wrote a brief review or summary of it. I have to thank my German teacher, Cristina, who handles the corrections of the text.

What we really Woll'n , directed by Janine Wolf.

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On 26 November, the film What we really Woll'n at the Adult School of Cáceres "broadcast". The 26-minute film was shot in India and it is shown how it can be quite different to live in Germany and in India as a child. The film presents three young people who have helped in India for several months in voluntary activities for children. The children participate in various activities, namely sports, dancing as well as some of the Children's Parliament of Chennai. Are you interested in the future as well as to present problems of their society and the educational need that has for many children, unfortunately, remain unsatisfied because- Economic problems. A young representative to the Children's Parliament is aware that there is a big problem if children go to school not because they have to go to work. This means that the new generations to participate in politics and in the management of some skills in their society, so to speak, or at least that one keeps their opinions to be important.

emphasis is therefore placed particularly on the right to education. Other people's and children's rights are also mentioned by the volunteers as well as by the interviewed Indian children. It also compares the schools in India with those of Germany. There would, of course, different types of Schools in India. Some are poorer while others were yet to schools in Germany are similar. The film shows the two very different extremes of this reality of India. On the one hand, a family will be interviewed, their children, great use as well as very small children, no public transport to go to school because they belong to the lowest stratum of the population (or Kasste). The social stratification still exists today and, unfortunately, plays a very important role in Indian society, even if it has already changed somewhat. On the other hand, is shown in the documentary, such as children from the highest social classes it can afford not only a good education but also the chance to make a study at the university.

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It is encouraging to see how the children in the poorest areas of India, as well as in poorer areas of the world, be happy about everything. The smile on the face has to do with neither rights nor with prosperity. Nevertheless, one can perhaps hope to do now because it give a new "wave" sc heint, women and children (middle class, especially girls) from the former ideas u nd of Yoke of obedience to the parents and the men (especially in connection with the marriage) to free. In the film, a young couple is interviewed. One asks the young man if he believed that it would be prepared at the age of fifteen have to give up school to work. He claims to be a fifteen-year-old person would naturally become the adults in India and had been treated, in contrast to Germany. Mainly in India, it might say, perhaps, especially in modest families to earn money to live simply. The same idea is commented on by an Indian cricketer, and that the biggest problem for many families in India is the money. If you have no money, you could be my least at all appreciate a chance to work out a future. Money is of course also the reason why many girls are themselves not decide who they want to get married. Some people would also think that they would continue to learn better if they could afford it.

The film suggests that one can easily solve many problems through cooperation. If the first world and developing countries would more likely do something together, we could reach more destinations faster. The collaboration also enables the development and the progressive independence of the latter's independence here means to have other countries, but that this "relationship" benefit the two countries and that the two enriched by working in any case, no money will be, although in different ways.

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What We bow really. Reg Janine Wolf. LOBOCITOfilm, 2010.

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Narradores de la noche - Rafik Shami

Rafik Shami y sus cuentos de Damasco

Salim Podia considerarse verdaderamente un Afortunado. Su maravilloso gift of speech, its imaginative power and its fabulous facility for storytelling for many years assured the loyalty of its customers. By profession driver, Salim used to have fascinating stories to their parishioners, so that competition does not constitute a risk to your business, provided that Salim could keep alive his loquacity. The driver telling him it was time to retire. This continued to keep in mind the countless stories he learned and recited during his years as coachman, stories stored in their memory as if it were bare frames, which are then covered with countless ornaments and beads. One day Salim received a strange visit. How should have imagined the old driver to his fairy-if such creatures exist, would be presented with such a strange message? The Fairy claimed to have ensured that each and every one of the stories he had come to fruition. Now it was her turn to retire and could not continue taking charge of this arduous task. Salim lost speech for three months and if at the end of that time had received seven gifts, be assigned a new fairy and recover the voice to continue telling stories. Salim had seven friends Mehdi, professor of geography; Junis, the owner of a cafe that left everyone happy and had the best hakavatis of Damascus, former mistro Faris; Musa, a barber who could not use scissors without striking cuts in the ears of their clients who were exposed to such punishment so he could hear him recite beautiful stories, they would feel proud even the best hakavatis, Tuma, the " immigrant, "a Damascus who had to flee to America during the First World War and returned thirty years later on the pretext of failing to adjust to life in the U.S., former inmate Isam, who spent twenty-four years in jail a crime he did not commit, and Ali, who got a locksmith he was a man of few words.

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Seven friends try to help Salim to find the seven gifts of the driver receives different sets of objects of various kinds, but do not seem to return voice. One suggests that it could be seven dinners at friends' houses, seven wines, other than seven trips pass through seven valleys and seven hills ... Finally, one friend gives the solution: seven different stories that can unleash the language of the driver and sweeten your ears. The seven friends tell a story each on different nights. All except Ali, who never learned to tell stories. His wife will take over and break new ground and unleashing the wrath of one of the coterie of her husband, will become part of the group of intellectuals for a night. Narrated stories are fictional or autobiographical narratives halfway between fiction and reality. In any case, Salim recovers his voice after the last story told, of Fatmeh, the wife of Ali. Fatmeh tells the beautiful story of his mother, who never told even her husband. Salim recovers his voice, leaving her friends even for unbelievers a question unresolved: whether or not the driver, he lost his voice or if it was not just a kids game.

Portrait Rafik Schami (above)

Shami, Rafik. Tellers Night . Trad. Anton Dieterich. Madrid: Siruela, 1992. (Original title: Erzähler der Nacht).

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Tahar Ben Jelloun - Le racisme explique à ma fille

Ben Jelloun, Tahar. explained Le racisme à ma fille. Lonrai: Seuil, 1998.

Tahar Ben Jelloun est est né en Algérie mais demenage France, where he lives with his daughter and his wife, also of Morroccan origin. He wrote several other books, among which the most famous are The child sand and The Sacred Night, which are part of the same book.

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Tahar Ben Jelloun has decided to write a book to explain to her daughter that is to be racist. It's about a protest against a draft law on immigration in France (which his daughter accompanied him) that he reacted by asking questions about it. His father explains that basically all people are equal, whatever their origin, ethnicity (there is only one race, the human race), religion and beliefs. He dismisses the myths and prejudices they may have towards others, towards those who are not like us. Tahar Ben Jelloun tells his daughter that, although equal, we are all different and it is a handicap as il bien dit, mais c’est quelque chose de profitable et d’enrichissant pour tous.

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Review of "Corpora in Applied Linguistics by Susan Hunston

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In her Corpora in Applied Linguistics , Susan Hunston makes a compilation of the main types of corpus studies in Applied Linguistics, which she illustrates by setting forth a series of studies undertaken in various disciplines of Linguistics.

This academic work is most suitable for either students or novice researches aiming to work in the field of Corpus Linguistics or (corpus-based) Applied Linguistics. Her work explains in great detail what are the most basic types of analysis and applications of corpora in different areas, ranging from language teaching and learning, phraseology and dictionary writing, and Translation to Historical and Critical Linguistics. Furthermore, she provides the reader with an introduction to key concepts in the area of Corpus Linguistics, going on to give an account of the chief applications at the user's disposal through corpus software (e.g. Wordsmith Tools).

As suggested, her work goes beyond a mere theoretical depiction of the types of corpus research, corpus methodology and strategies, given that every single point that she makes is illustrated with examples of studies carried out by scholars in several disciplines. Therefore, the bibliography that she provides constitutes a valuable tool for researches interested in digging further into the existing literature in this particular academic field.

Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the basic concepts of Corpus Linguistics, namely, frequency, phraseology, collocation, type / token, or lemma, among others, outlining the main types and uses of corpora.

In Chapter 2 issues of corpus design are looked into. The corpus is analysed as an object, so that attention is drawn to parametres such as size and content, together with notions such as representativeness and permanence or "contemporaneousness". The concept of corpus is further analysed from various different standpoints.

The main trends in methodology in Corpus Linguistics are the object of study in Chapter 3. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of concordance lines and the very fine meaning distinctions and patterns that these enable researchers to trace.

Chapter 4 focuses on other resources and methodology offered by corpus software. Attention is now drawn to collocation and keywords, as well as to different types of annotation.



Human Language Families - Comparable Corpora allow
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Other considerations intimately connected with the applications of corpora in Applied Linguistics are dealt with in Chapter 5: the production of dictionaries and grammars relying on and considerably facilitated by corpus analysis; the use of corpora in translation, literary studies and other disciplines, such as Critical Linguistics, where light can be thrown on the ideologies underlying discourse.

Chapters 6 and 7 concentrate on corpora as applied to Language Teaching. The former chapter chiefly focuses on language description, while the latter consists in a depiction of the general applications of corpora to Language Teaching. Among these, Hunston dwells on DDL (Data-Driven Learning), by means of which students are endowed with authentic material and encouraged to make observations and deductions about the language that they are presented with. This methodology might be said to aim at raising awareness of language on the part of the student. A number of examples are examined in full detail, as a clear illustration of this type of analysis.

Chapter 8 further delves into the issue of corpora as applied to Language Teaching. In this section, attention is turned away from the general to the specific applications of corpora in Language Teaching and EAP (English for Academic Purposes). The focus is no longer on how to teach but on what to teach, on the basis of corpora tailored for specific purposes. Careful consideration is given to learner corpora, contrasted with other corpora consisting of texts written by native speakers. Drawing a comparison between these two types of texts supplies the corpus researcher with a clear notion of what linguistic elements would be suitable for inclusion in learner corpora and material. Moreover, this way researchers may gain an insight into the main areas of difference between the kind of language used by native and non-native speakers of English. This raises the question as to whether it is the English spoken by native speakers or otherwise that of expert non-native speakers of English that should be aimed at.

Finally, Chapter 9 is a brief outline of the main applications and contributions of corpora in the field of Applied Linguistics. Last but not least, a list of relevant websites is provided at the end of this chapter and previous to the bibliography section, which might come in handy for researchers specially interested in the use of corpora in Applied Linguistics.

Hunston, Susan. Corpora in Applied Linguistics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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A part of me - ZDF

 

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Vicky simply appears one day in high school, sixteen-year-old Jonas visited. The boy is currently playing football with his friends in the courtyard. He notes troztdem the girl since she has only one foot in the door. The young seem to be captivated by her. She looks a little older than he. That is why all the guys stare at them. But she does not care. She wants only one. She has come to deliver a letter to Jonas. The letter but no good news ...

Vicky and Jonas who met at a party and Vicky now pregnant. She wants Jonas decision know what happened. But it seems to Jonas at all interested. He just wants to know anything about her baby. Nine months later, Vicky appeared with her baby on back. She knows the restaurant where Jonathan is working, waiting at the exit to the fact that he puts an end, and asks him to just take care of her baby while she goes to the bathroom. The girl looks really only a solution to Jonas for the baby is interested. So what? Well, she does it!

Jonas with his daughter

Although, in principle, Jonas does not want anything to do with the babies, he is totally excited about the small, which is in the car. Vicky realizes that he is no ordinary boy, as far as feelings and wants but they inspire curiosity.

the maiden does not give her more time when Jonathan says he wants nothing to do with the child. The younger woman leaving the child at his home while she goes out. Thus forcing him to take care of the child to have to ...

Jonas mother undergoes random and sudden that it has become grandma. She makes the decision, Vicky for training at the college expense. Both the girls than the young will have wide out form. They are intended to educate both the child. falls

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You can see for sure that Jonas is walking with his child, who is comfortable at the breast of her father. Both teenagers have something in common, what they are talking about the end of the film. Vicky lives with me her mother. Her father left her mother when she was a baby. She has never met him and her mother had always spoken ill of him. She decides one day to write him a letter to arrange to be with him and meet him at last can. On the other hand, Jonas, who lives with his mother. It is also disconnected. Jonas mother's health nurse by profession. Therefore they must always gone in the afternoon. Jonas is alone most of the time. He has never asked for her father in his life. But after he has spoken on this issue with Vicky, he makes his mother a few questions about his father.

to finish, we see that Jonas has changed. He azkeptiert that he has a beautiful daughter whom he wants to show all his friends. In addition, he sits down at the table and writes a letter to his father. The boy is on his way to his past and to reconcile his future.

Part of me . Reg Christoph Röhl. Lathes. Christoph Röhl and Philippe Longchamp. Rental movies, 2008.

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Et si c'était vrai - Marc Levy

De quoi s'agit

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Ah oui, bien lire t'aime? Donc, il ya quelque chose que nous déjà partageons.

Je me propose de faire de petits que j'ai lu resumés of Bouquins et I found nice, interesting or simply that I want to talk.

They say he must not master a language to use. That's what I do, I use the French I learned in high school and college to express my opinion on various subjects.

I hope it pleases you, ladies and gentlemen, and if not ... good bah too bad!

Just Like Heaven - Marc Levy

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I begin today with a little summary of a book that I really liked. There are about two weeks that I have "devoured" and I look forward to sharing my little experience in the world of literature with you, if you read this wonderful book yet, the same way someone told me about mine.

Arthur, an architect who has just moved into her new apartment in San Francisco, meets a spirit who lives with him.

Lauren the young woman he meets mind one day in the bathroom not surprisingly, is medical intern at San Francisco, but due to a car accident and she dies from being locked in her body, which has in turn, is in a coma.

At their first meeting, which takes place six more after the accident Lauren, Arthur takes a call girl, believing that this is a bad joke, a Paul joked that his colleague makes him ... but how wrong he was. For his part, Paul takes him for a madman on learning that he sees a woman and that only he who can see and touch. Arthur puts still some time to finally accept it for good is not crazy and that what is happening is happening for real.

Although initially Arthur and Lauren does not get along, attendance and achievement that they share much more than they would have never imagined they can get to love as they are, overcoming the gap that separates them from.

Gradually, as the story unfolds, we realize that as long as Arthur Lauren are both folded in on themselves. One because of a relationship failed, the other, because of work taking. However, the fact that Lauren technically had no contact with him leads them to have a close relationship. In addition, they must join forces to fight a common enemy: Lauren will be disconnected at the hospital where his body is because doctors believe she will not get out of the coma. Arthur decides to steal Lauren's body and bring it to the old home of his mother died when he was still very young, to hide where he thinks we do not seek. It was there that their relationship turns more intense and they are aware of this intensity.

The character of Arthur, with his maturity and depth of his feelings for both her dead mother for Lauren, managed to get into the pocket Readers, who attends a true statement love and who witnesses the power of faith and good will to disrupt and save a life.

The story ends well on one side, since Lauren is still alive she is finally disconnected. On the other hand, the novel ends by intrigue us with an ending not quite, but luckily not quite inatendu either. Lawrence has finally awakened and apparently she does not remember Arthur or what happened between them. We will have to make a new appointment with Marc Levy to learn what happens to them.

Levy, Marc (2007): Just Like Heaven . Paris: Robert Laffont, DL

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thinking only of us both - Emilie Richards - ZDF

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Stacey kellnert auf a party, together with her friend Sarah. She had previously worked as a teacher, but after the death of her newborn daughter, she has resigned from the school and is left alone. Since then she has never come home again.

learn with this particular day Stacey architect Ryan know at work. Stacey is worried about three children, left alone to and fro. The little girl she found lying in the pantry on the ground. In the beginning, Stacey Ryan has held for any of these types do not care for their children. Shortly after, she learned that he has no children, but the three children, his nephew and nieces. You want that Stacey would be their new nanny. Namely, they have recently lost their parents. They died in a car accident and the children have geleidet obviously much lower. Stacey has no other choice than to accept job as a nanny. The children are happy about it and they also obvious. Ryan and Stacey approach each other in the following weeks.

Stacey takes care of Louise

When Ryan's mother away all the children during the holiday will be decided Ryan, it is high time to make a trip with the family. The uncle, the nanny and three children spend a week in the country. Everything is going very well until the oldest children walking in the forest. Unreported swim they go to sea. The two children jump in and make a swimming race. The boy, Tom, is foul, but his sister does not notice anything until it comes to the other side. Then she takes her uncle, who has to save the child. Ryan feels terrible, of course, quite as if his nephew could be drowned. Before the death of his sister, he had promised to take good care of the children, if you should happen, and it has almost not been able ...

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noticed on this trip Ryan, that something is going on with Stacey. They visit their parents, whose house is relatively close to the forest. Your parents live in a farm. The children are excited and looking forward to all the animals on the farm, especially on the ponies. In fact they enjoy delicious in the farm. Stacey tells Ryan that she lost her daughter. At last they come close and love each other. But suddenly he gets a call. You must return urgently to the city. Ryan's mother insists on that the children move in with her. You beaufträgt a Anwälterin to prove that Ryan is not prepared to raise three children alone. She claims there is no stability in his life. You, on the other hand, is a wealthy woman who has a lot of time and enough stability to raise children. Ryan, it remains only one thing: to marry a woman. If he would do so, would pronounce him the court for custody of their three children.

Stacey and Ryan

family plays soccer on the beach

Ryan no longer know what to do it. He risks losing the children, he has to work all the time and feel that all require him too much. He also knows not how his relationship is to continue to Stacey. He just wants to have his rest. He gets drunk and has his business partner, Eliza, ask him to pick up. She goes back home and put him to bed. She takes off his clothes and hers. The two sleep in the same bed but nothing more happened. The next Tomorrow is Stacey, the couple lying in bed. It is of course terribly upset with Ryan, and though she loves dieKinder all, it must terminate. Ryan tried to tell her the truth, but she does not believe a word. It moves down and sees Ryan again until exactly after she learns that he has is getting married soon. Ryan has made a decision: he must marry, so that may not carry the children stay with him. He takes Eliza's offer, her marriage to. Nevertheless, shortly before the wedding, he rejects it. He married Eliza can not simply because he has fallen in love with Stacey.

Before the wedding, Ryan Stacey had a favor asked. The children wanted for the birth of the smallest, Louise, at Stacey's parents, the farm, once again ride the ponies. Stacey says, although reluctant, too. Instead of going to church, the whole family goes to Stacey's parents. Ryan finally makes her a marriage proposal, she takes home.

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thinking only to us both . R. John Delbridge. Drehb. Stefanie Taschinski, Frank Posiadly. Nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Emilie Richards. Polyphon International. Wurde im ZDF im Oktober 2010 ausgestrahlt.

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A Comparative Corpus-Aided Analysis of American and British English: A Case Study of Slang

Abstract: This MA thesis should be set against the background of linguistic Globalisation and its diffusion through the media. The mass media allow for linguistic shifts taking place in American English to spread to other World Englishes (above all on the levels of syntax and lexis) as a result of an increasing trend towards colloquialisation, Americanisation and a more democratic model of (power) relationships. The present dissertation constitutes a corpus-based study that analyses the frequency of use of a series of grammatical structures and lexical items in American and British English, particularly focusing on American slang. The study takes as a basis chiefly audiovisual corpora in parallel to which real linguistic data (drawn from a survey on slang) are examined. Results provide evidence of the so called Americanisation of other World Englishes, among them, British English, and that this influence can be observed in both written and audiovisual corpora.



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   Hernando Carnicero, Carmen. “A Comparative Corpus-Aided Analysis of American and British English: A Case Study of Slang.” MA Diss. Universidad de Extremadura. Cáceres, Dec. 2009.

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During the course of the last month I watched this film at least three or four times. I was fascinated by its visual impact. Furthermore, the main thread of the story, together with its dialogues and monologues, made an impression on me. I simply loved the film and thought it would be a good idea to write a summary of the story that captivated me. Since I watched the film in German, I thought it would also be better if the write-up were to be written in the same language, additionally offering me the opportunity to put into practice my German language skills. I apologize for the mistakes that I might have made. I am aware that I must have made quite a few. However, I am sure that the effort I put into writing this text will pay off, as it always does when it comes to learning (and improving) a language.

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[ Although I'm sure I must have made many mistakes, I wanted to put a short summary of this wonderful film about it to share with others. I look forward to comments .]

The Warrior and the Empress is a strange and harsh but beautiful and profound story that can not be easily forgotten.

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Simone, or Sissy, as they then called the all learned Bodo know as strange circumstances. She had an accident he had caused without knowing it. She was run over by a truck. Shortly after the accident occurred, Bodo went under the truck that was exactly where Sissi. Actually, he just wanted to hide, but that no one knew at the time. He fled a few men who were looking for him. Nevertheless, when he saw Sissi on the floor, he came to the girl's aid. The former military approached Sissi. He succeeded hera uszufinden what was wrong with her. Then he cut a small puncture on her neck so she could breathe again. It worked and the younger woman was able to be able to use their lungs again. Soon she realized that the younger man cried. His eyes watered abundantly. What is unusual for a picture!

Sissi has mentioned what she was thinking, while the man was crying and she looked at. You did not think their pain or of death. Instead, she wondered at Bodo's lovely scent. It seemed that he smelled of peppermint quite well. It has held for something special and beautiful.

Sissi was taken to hospital with Bodo at her side. But shortly after he disappeared. She survived the accident and the operation and, after leaving the hospital, she wanted her Rescuers found. Your request was not an easy thing.

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The girl Stie ß finally Bodo's residence, which the boy and his brother Walter lived. But it did not come forward with Bodo enthusiasm or joy. He said only that he would not hear of it. The girl was still not on. They did not return home but shortly After this you went back in the middle of the night to Bodo. He was not happy about it. Nevertheless, Walter told the girl in the absence of Bodo's everything you need, what had happened to Bodo in the past. He told her about the accident at the gas station, died in the Bodo's wife. He added that Bodo was still thinking of his wife, just as the day when the accident occurred. He hoped everything would be just as before.

Walter was of the opinion that Bodo stood still, not nu r physically but also mentally, to the bathroom, where he was when his wife died. The young e wanted nothing to do with Sissi or with another woman have to do. Therefore, he threw it out again. Man could see after that he really was obsessed by his deceased wife. He saw them in dreams, and if he was awake. Or maybe it was so that dreams and reality lie not differ must .

The next morning, Sissi made her way to the bank. On the day of the accident she had received a letter from his best friend. Her friend asked her for a favor. Her mother had just died and had left her something. Because her friend is far away from the country was, she asked Sissy to go to the bank to find out from which was her inheritance.

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The same day, Bodo and Walter were planning to rob the bank where the second worked. Sissi randomly went to the same bank. Or maybe it really was not an accident but Shicksal. The girl spent the night, however, near Bodo's home, where she slept in the open. She was certainly in the bank, as the brothers sat by their plans. Everything went as planned, or almost everything. At the last moment they were unable to run away with the money. Walter was wounded by a security guard heavy. Bodo and Sissi had to be mighty axes to drive him to the hospital. Soon she had to leave but, as the police looked for them. She went away to a madhouse, Sissi where he has been ordinarily Haushaltsort. As the two spent a few days before the police were warned that the suspected robbers who were in the asylum was located. Sissi learned that her father tried to kill Bodo in the bathtub with a toaster, as long ago found - Sissi out - he killed his wife had .

The boy and the girl met once a decision: they will simply go away. Another nurse, coped well with the Sissi, presented her their car available. Sissi and Bodo jumped Water - in the river, which passed the asylum. The police believed they were on their way. But they hid in the garage and came out the next day. You need to lose the city and went to another country to Sissi's girlfriend. After a while they had to stop the car. They had no gas. The nearest gas station was just the gas station, where Bodo woman had the accident. Finally he told Sissy that it not a real gang accident, but a dispute. He suspected his wife was furious and has even caused the accident.

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Suddenly, the action takes place on the toilet, where you can see another Bodo. He goes to the car, gets in and drives on. He is still crying. The other Bodo, who sits on the back of the car, stops at the car. He pulls the crying Bodo from the car and took the wheel. Now you can Sissi and Bodo, the new start a new life. The "old" Bodo is on its way. He meets a bus, whose driver is his deceased brother. This Bodo enters the bus and leave the brothers final. Exactly where can you do not know, but you can imagine it anyway. On the other hand, the new drive Sissi and Bodo away by car. He finally stops crying. He no more tears to eyes. It also provides Bodo from happy. He holds his hand and smiles. He finally understands that Sissi has saved his life, that life has given him another chance, and that the fate has finally found a way to turn the misfortune into fortune.

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A couple of English-speaking friends showed their interest in following the blog. So I thought it would be a good idea to provide a translation into English for them and anyone who wants to read the review. I am aware that quite a few people have already written reviews of the book and above all, of the film. Nonetheless, I wanted to make my own contribution, even if it is a small one.

Heleni is a Greek chambermaid who lives in the island of Naxos. Brought up in a family with deep-rooted traditions, she leads a somewhat dull and monotonous existence, always living up to other people's expectations, as well as fulfilling all of her duties, both at home and elsewhere. The world that she inhabits is, accordingly, a small village in which there is no place for secrets and where the tiniest oddity would never go unnoticed. Heleni tends to daydream. She takes advantage of the long hours of work, during which she cleans rooms in an automatic way, to give free reign to her imagination. That is her one and only secret. Otherwise, her life is nothing out of the ordinary: life just goes by from work at the hotel and housework, to conversations with friends about the latest gossip (in which she never participates but as a listener) and the spare moments at the café to rest for a while and drink a glass of ouzo .



Queen to Play

One day, upon doing her customary morning cleaning, Heleni notices that the guests lodged at room 17 have left on the table a beautiful board, on which a set of pieces rest. These strike her as mysterious. The chambermaid picks up from the floor one of the mysterious pieces and feels somewhat ashamed at not knowing where she should place it... The sixty four squares on the chessboard are still a universe unknown to her. Heleni has developed an instinct throughout her long years of work at the hotel, so that she is rarely wrong when trying to guess the nationality of her guests. The owners of the beautiful chessboard, who are French, are not an exception to this. Heleni will listen to them spellbound, in the same way that their language always catches her attention when she goes by the busy dining room. The flow of sounds coming out of their mouths brings to her mind the beauty and elegance of Paris. All told, the picture of the young French couple, her perfume, so spicy and heady, together with the curiosity that the mysterious game awakens in her, drive the chambermaid to make a decision: she will give her husband a chessboard for his birthday so that they will be able to play together.

However, it does not work out as she had planned. Her husband does not pay the slightest attention to the game and, ultimately, it strikes him as an extremely difficult game. Heleni starts to learn how to play on her own and, frustrated at the difficulties entailed by playing against "the machine", she requires assitance from a former teacher, highly-esteemed by everyone on the island. They meet regulary to play chess, which soon raises the curiosity of the islanders and fuels rumours, on an island where being unfaithful to your partner would be less serious than incurring in any kind of -for the provincials, unaccustomed to such things- eccentricity of the sort.

Heleni and her husband are on the verge of getting a divorce, mainly because her husband, Panis, feels abashed by the rumours and takes the situation pretty badly, as a personal affront. Heleni, knowing all too well the unwritten norms that decree what a woman's behaviour should be like on Naxos, decides from the very beginning to keep from her husband and from the whole village, her unusual recreational activity, which for her, in any case, has turned into what seems to be closer to a profession rather than to a game. The woman, who is well over forty, wishes she could share her hobby with her loved-ones, but knows that not even her closest friend would ever understand what she feels upon entering this -for her- brand-new world. Neither would they conceive of her behaviour as suitable for a woman in her age. They would think she had gone mad, at the very least. Her hobby, then, is doomed to remain a secret between her and old Kouros, her former school teacher, who never actually saw in her a particularly brilliant student but who all the same realises the change that the unassuming woman has undergone.

  After several months of hard training, Kouros finally manages to enrol Heleni for a chess championship that would take place in the Greek capital. She sets out for Athens, in the middle of the night, leaving behind her unsuspecting family. In the meantime, the professor, in poor health, falls seriously ill and has to be admitted to hospital.



Heleni during Chess Tournament

The chess player proves herself, finally encountering her defeat in the third round of the tournament. At long last Panis makes up his mind: the idea of getting a divorce, together with the anger that he felt before give way to the pride that he feels for his wife, a modest woman with great determination, who through hard work succeeds in achieving what she set out to do. During her trip to Athens, Heleni purchases that wonderful perfume used by the Parisian lady who owned the chessboard. She comes back home to Naxos with the conviction that she has lost everything in vain for the sake of an unrealised dream; that perhaps it might not have been worth the trouble, after all. Nonetheless, the story wraps up with the assurance that her sacrifice has borne fruit, and that once and for all she can count on the unconditional support of her husband, her boss and all islanders, who impatiently await her arrival and feel proud that she has represented them in the well-known tournament.

This wonderful book, simple and deep at the same time, is worth at the very least a brief reflection. Professor Kouros, who had a vocation for letters since very early in life, albeit descended from a family of shepherds, could be considered to be Heleni's mentor. At the end of the day, he takes her up on her challenge to guide her throughout her apprenticeship. The narrator emphasises Kouros' intelectual capacity as well as the role that it played in his life. The moment came, our narrator explains, when the professor stopped feeling attached to the world sorrounding him in order to enter the world of imagination and literature. Very much in the same way that the knight from La Mancha found a haven in Chivalric literature, professor Kouros took comfort in his books. The day came when he renounced all social commitments, forgoing his life for a universe that struck him as more real than that of his own.

The professor knew that Heleni's initiation would not be easy, and that she would probably feel tempted to throw in the towel, not having, as he did, the reassurance that he could draw from his books. The woman, nonetheless, would strive to cram her head with all of the tactics that she was supposed to learn in order to improve her technique, not caring at all about what others might make of it.

At the end of his life, Kouros is alone and ill, we might think. However, he leaves this world with the reassurance that he has put on a sound footing a woman who drowned. Since Heleni initially could only count on the professor, the latter is absolutely irreplaceable in her voyage of discovery.



Poster



A recent film adaptation of the novel has been produced. Interestingly enough, the author of the book herself has worked as a scriptwriter and short producer.

The screen version is a Franco-German adaptation that sets the action in a small village on the island of Corsica. The village very clearly mirrors the ambiance characteristic of the Greek island that Heleni inhabits in the novel. Tradition, male and female stereotypes and clichés become manifest in the framework of the story.

It is noteworthy that the film captures accurately all of the elements that bring to Heleni's mind the memory of the French couple playing chess. The woman wishes she could find herself in a similar situation, idyllic as it was, in which her husband and her would play chess together, bathed in majestic light; she would be clad in a most elegant silk nightdress, with a wide smile on her face and the fire of love in her eyes.

To wrap up, it is worth mentioning that both the screen version and the original novel depict the metamorphosis undergone by a simple, unassuming woman with intellectual aspirations -that initially lie concealed and unconfessed- which verge on spirituality, trascending purely worldly affairs. Ultimately, it is through the intervention of a quaint character that Heleni's aspirations finally materialize, and in turn she will also make an imprint on this character's life.

References

Henrichs, Bertina. The Joueuse d'échecs (The Chess Player ). 2005. Leana Levi: np

Joueuse . 2009. Caroline Bottaro Dir. Screenplay: Caroline Bottaro. Based on a novel by B. Henrichs. Studio Canal.