Encyclopedia of World Literature
English – Britain, American, Japan, China, Russian, Spanish, German literature
Blanche Collection, GallimardRelease date: 10-01-2019“Please … a little bit of sleep … a little bit of this sweet and pleasant absence … A simple break, a brief getaway, a picnic with the stars in the dark …”A great insomniac, a writer from Tangier discovers that to finally sleep well he must kill someone. His mother […]
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Gonzalo Aurelio Esteva y Landero was a Mexican journalist and diplomat, was born in Veracruz, Mexico on February 18, 1843.1 He worked with the liberal generation of 1857. In 1869 he founded the newspaper El Renacimiento together with Ignacio Manuel Altamirano. In 1878 he founded the newspaper El Nacional, which was considered the spokesman for […]
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James Joyce — was an Irish novelist and poet. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer’s Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary […]
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It is inspiring to see modern and successful Arab writers who add their contributions to the long and glorious history of Arabic literature. 2015-09-06 07:00Google BookmarkFacebookTwitterMoreBy Noha Medhat In today’s modern day and age, globalization has made our world a small village of easily transferred ideas and cultures. In such an environment, Western pop culture has […]
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Turkey has produced some of the most esteemed writers of the 20th century, with literature varying from politically entrenched revolutionizing poetry, to fictional novels highlighting the exotic mysteries of Turkish country and culture. Nazim Hikmet | © AtilimGunesBaydin/WikiCommons Nazım Hikmet (1902-1963) Born in Salonica – part of the Ottoman Empire – Hikmet is often described a ‘romantic communist’ […]
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Inclusion criteria This is a list of fictional books that appear in literature. Fictional books appearing in other print media, such as comics, are listed in List of fictional books from periodicals. Fictional books that appear in other types of media, such as television shows, are listed in List of fictional books from non-print media. […]
Continue Reading“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as […]
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