We know that major events in human history have brought about great changes in culture. The works are created from the visions of artists, musicians and writers who leave testimonies about the world in which they lived with spectators and survivors of terror, death, destruction, barbarism, what only war could do.Leave for the world.
Life is transformed and thousands of stories are born to be immortalized in writings that tell us about the society of time, the intensity of emotions, the human spirit, love, greed, suspense, the catastrophe of the pulse of power and destructive speed.
In addition to the tone used to tell wars through history, drama, romance and divine confrontation, whether in ancient Greece or because of the invasion of Earth on Mars, terrible scenes from the Holocaust or Chinese feudal society, literary works highlight the imagination of each era, evoking romances intense by their belief system, their ambition, and their way of being obsessed with love as a savior.
In this time of conflict, we offer books that have become famous for representing fantastic portraits, futuristic, emotional, exciting texts, intense and vivid texts. Beautiful and memorable, with the horrors of war in common.
Nine (1965)
If you thought it was an original movie, it wasn't; “Dune” is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert in the form of a trilogy that tells the story of a future of more than 10,000 years in a powerful galactic empire with a feudal structure in our galaxy. In 1966, he won the Hugo Prize, a competition for the best science fiction and fantasy works, and in 1965, he distinguished himself in the first edition of the Nebula Best Science Fiction Award.
To date, he has adapted two films in 1984 with the participation of singers Sting and Patrick Stewart. And in 2021, the novel gained popularity thanks to films inspired by the original, with singers Zendaya, Timote Charlamé, Rebecca Ferguson and Oscar, Isaac.
“The colonel has no one to write to him” (1961)
The story of Gabriel García Marquez, full of symbolism about the sadness, disappointment and nostalgia of a veteran colonel who fought the liberals in Colombia (1899-1902) and waited forever for his pension to be granted. Under the direction of Arturo Lipstein, it offers a critically acclaimed film adaptation.
The Little Woman (1868)
This classic literature, written by Louise May Alcott, tells the story of four girls who grew up between the needs, humility and life of society after undergoing a life change by losing many privileges while they were women. We are living the struggle of time to realize our dreams and know love as part of the American Civil War between 1861 and 1865.
He has made numerous adaptations on musical works, plays and big screens, including those directed by Gillian Armstrong in 1994. In 2019, Gillian Armstrong released another film adaptation directed by Susan Sanlandon, Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst and Christian Bale. It consists of characters such as Theals Ronan, Florence Pew, Meryl Streep and Timote Hal Charlame.
“Mouse” (1980)
It is a graphic novel that tells the story of a war that won the Pulitzer Prize. Art Spiegelman portrays Jews with rats and tells terrible scenes from the Holocaust through a vignette featuring.
« Cygne sauvage » (1991)
The story, captured in Chinese feudal society at the beginning of the 20th century, is told through the eyes of three women from the same family who witnessed and protagonists in numerous contests, invasions and revolutions. The story begins with Jung Chang's grandmother, the author of the work, a British writer born in China and a woman who experienced firsthand everything that means in the process of claiming the rights of women, as well as people in general.
The World War (1898)
Written by British novelist Herbert George Wells, better known as H.G. Wells, this science fiction work describes the invasion of Earth on Mars, also known as the first description of an alien invasion, and has had a great influence on the rich modification of ideas such as the story that followed. Orson Welles, actor and director, who is a radio episode of the drama series “The Mercury Theatre on the Air” (1977), listens to When People Thought It was a transmission of real events that actually happened, confusing and supervised and narrated with terrifying realism.
Originally, Wells' novel has undergone numerous adaptations on various platforms: movies, radio shows, video games, cartoons, TV series and advertising campaigns.
(Iliad (8th century BC)
This classic of ancient literature is a Greek epic, traditionally attributed to Homer, and has 15,693 verses, the plot of which is based on the deep anger of Achilles and tells the events that occurred over 51 days during the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. Iliad and Odyssey were considered the most important compositions in ancient Greek literature, not only by the Greeks of the classical period, but also by later generations, and applied to various art forms, films, paintings, music, etc.