Yes, to those here, you do perceive the value in literature. You can be intoxicated with literature and heal the pain of reality. However, how many people could cure their ennui, ignorence, and...
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Yes, to those here, you do perceive the value in literature. You can be intoxicated with literature and heal the pain of reality. However, how many people could cure their ennui, ignorence, and...
in the morden society, why people (not only lower class ) should spend dull hours in the same dark or complicated poem, novel? yes, it's not a good question, i admit, but it's a question which could...
i never heard of any filipino writers.
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Lolita is a book built on groups of magic words. Although the author insisted on the meaninglessness of his writing, only inventing some beautiful sentences, it dose create wonderful impression on...
Otto von Bismark gives me a wonderful literature class
some paragraph is not easy to me and i have to reread them
of course, no one can be sure what Gatsby actually thinks if you insists on what is the absolutely correct thinking of Gasby
but it's not the point
all traces come from Nick, the narrator.
...
as far as i know Dickens got paid, even quite well
:D
so he never worried about financial crisis
by this he could write his works with gentle steps.
I believe that Gatsby is forced into trying to achieve the "American Dream" and win Daisy over because Daisy is in a more exclusive and wealthier class.
Was Gatsby aware that his chasing Daisy...
Lin yutang is also famous in China. He and anther intellectual, Liang shiqiu, immigrated to the US because of some political or private reasons. They are both Chinese and English writers,...
i am not very sure what the "like" mean in your sentence
but i still thank for your answer.
frankly i don't think i could enjoy Dostoevsky's stuff .
hei~
to know your comments about these questions are really part of my homework.
How ever i know my own answers to these questions.
i just ask for your opinions on them and not ask you finish ...
:-?
1.0 What about your general impression on Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment or C&P?
2.1 How do you think about Raskolnikov? Crazing or rational?
2.2 What about your comments on his motive...
i find Munro is versatile and resourceful.
i'm sure i will learn more from your attractive post
;)
:( :(
i have to go to language school and try to pass exam~~~
my list is filled with text books.
:-?
:rolleyes:
Melville! he is great
i even refer to him as one of the greatest American writor.
i love his Moby-Dick, even today i think it is a modern work, which mean some part of it will go...
:-?
I read the Chinese Version of Lolita
came across many abstacle
afterward, i know that this book was writen by at least 4 kinds of lauguage
Nabokov was a lauguage master, wasn't he?
6...
"His sanity is proven because he planned the whole thing out, and had a rational(objectionable) idea that was the center of his fixation"
yes, i agree!
on the other hand, his 'undoing' is...
if it's the first time you put your finger on Russian literature, I recommend
Turgenev as your beginning
;)
Both Dostoevsky and Neitzsche are not strickly in the scope of either Literature or Philosophy.
I forget some one said"Neitzsche turned Philosophy into Literature"
and Dostoevsky can not be...
1, Dost spend all his life on thinking a question whether God was in existence.
2, Dost had never been a fanatical Tsarist.
Even before went into exile, he claimed, "he is not against the...
In a Decade
Bei Dao
On the forsaken land
Years, tangled with yoke bells,
Sounded all night through. Roads rocked,
Gasps, beneath burdens, set to music,...
That means criminals who commit light crime, such as assault, steal, have
the right to ask for facilitators. Facilitator will arrange a meeting with the
victim for him. If the criminal...
mystery wrapped in an enigma?
is that a riddle impossible to be solved?
:o