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Byblos: Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
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Who Wrote What on Whom? Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Portrays the downfall of a wealthy mercantile family, the Buddenbrooks, over four generations. Gustav von Aschenbach, a novelist, travels to Venice where he becomes obsessed by the androgynous beauty of an adolescent boy named Tadzio. Although an epidemic of Asiatic cholera breaks out, Aschenbach doesn't leave because of Tadzio who becomes a symbol of faded youth and of attractions Aschenbach never made reality. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Byblos: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
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Who Wrote What on Whom? Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Presents itself as excerpt from rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated unnamed narrator, a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. Portrays the haphazardly planned murder of a miserly aged pawnbroker and her younger sister by a destitute St. Petersburg student Raskolnikov, and the emotional, mental and physical consequences. It is the story of a patricide in which all of the murdered man's sons share varying degrees of complicity. Alexey Fyodor...
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Byblos: Who Wrote What on Whom?
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Who Wrote What on Whom? Who Wrote What on Whom? Three poets, in three distant ages born,. Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed;. The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go. To make a third, she joined the former two.". On Mr Milton's Paradise Lost". When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold,. In slender Book his vast Design unfold,. Messiah Crown'd, Gods Reconcil'd Decree,. Rebelling Angels, the Forbidden Tree,. And all that w...
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Byblos: October 2010
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Who Wrote What on Whom? Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-). One Hundred Years of Solitude. Takes place in the fictional Colombian village of Macondo. It is founded by Jose Arcadio Buendia, a strong-willed and impulsive leader who becomes deeply interested in the mysteries of the universe when a band of gypsies visits Macondo, led by Melquiades. Macondo takes a role in the civil war, sending a militia led by Colonel Aureliano Buendia, Jose Arcadio's son. The last member of the Bue...
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Byblos: Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
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Who Wrote What on Whom? Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Rejects bad or counterfeit art as harmful to society inasmuch as it damages the people's ability to separate good from bad art. Detaches art from non-art or counterfeit art - art must crate a specific emotional link between artist and audience. Thus real art requires the capacity to unite people via communication; clearness and genuineness are crucial values. According to him, the stronger the infection, the better is the art. Tells the story of the Be...
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Byblos: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
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Who Wrote What on Whom? Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Nora leaves her husband Torvald after she realizes that her marriage is nothing more than a "doll house" in which she plays the role of doll in a perfect house. When she is blackmailed by Krogstad because of an improper act that she commits in order to save her husband's life - forging her father's signature - her husband shows disgust at what she had done instead of gratitude - his only concern is his reputation. An Enemy of the People. Stockmann rent...
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Byblos: Chinua Achebe (1930-)
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Who Wrote What on Whom? Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Explores the forces that drive the rise and fall of Okonkwo, a leader in the Umuofia clan, and the influences of British colonialism and Christian missionaris on his traditional Igbo community. The title of the book comes from Yeats' "The Second Coming". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 19th Century American Poetry. 19th Century American Prose. 20th Century American Poetry. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-). Jorge Louis Borges (1899-1986).
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Byblos: Whoddat?
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Who Wrote What on Whom? This is an alphabetical name directory of every author mentioned in this blog. Howard, Henry (Earl of Surrey). Lewis, M.G. Malory, Sir Thomas. Mill, John Stuart. Newman, Cardinal John Henry. Raleigh, Sir Walter. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. Sidney, Sir Phillip. Thackeray, William Makepeace. Wyatt, Sir Thomas. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). 19th Century American Poetry. 19th Century American Prose. 20th Century American Poetry. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-). Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
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Byblos: Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
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Who Wrote What on Whom? Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980). Concerns a dejected researcher, Antoine Roquentin in a town who becomes convinced that inanimate objects and situations such as his research project, the company of "The Self-Taught Man", his memories of a girl Anny, and even his own hands, encroach on his ability to define himself and on his intellectual and spiritual freedom, thus evoking in him a sense of nausea. Hell is other people". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
