Hello:0 I hope that you enjoy your time spent hereOriginally Posted by Misuto3
Hello:0 I hope that you enjoy your time spent here
Well, the first post I read when comming here to introduce myself was Virgil's, and I was stunned, because he went through a very similar process as the one I am going through.
First things first: I am Brazilian, and though I always loved to read and write, it was always a hobby, never something I wanted to dedicate my life to. When deciding what to do in college, I thought about Letters (as we call the Language and Literature major here in Brazil), but went to engineering. Years and years later, married to a remarkable woman who is taking Letters as her major, by her sugestion, I read "The Devil to Pay in Backlands (O Grande Sertão: Veredas)" by João Guimarães Rosa. And this book stirred something within me, a potential never seized, something asleep since High School... And there, I finally understood what literature was about.
But I followed reading mass "literature" like Bernard Cornwell, A Song of Ice and Fire... Until, this year, once again by my wife's sugestion, I read Jean Paul Sartre's "The Age of Reason". And that slumbering Thing within me, already growing since "The Devil to Pay in Backlands", finally broke free. I wanted to devour true Literature, the work of the great authors, and so I dove into more of João Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector, and other great names of Brazilian Literature.
Now, in less than a month away from my graduation in engineering, I am already set: I will begin college again, but this time in the Letters major! My aim is to gradually change fields, and in some years, teach and research literature. And I already have a course kind of set: Compared Literature.
I am curious to know American Literature in more depth, because, with the exception of Poe, all I have read so far is so... Massified. Maybe I didn't get to read the right authors, but the feeling I have is that American Literature as a whole became comercial, descriptions of the scenes of a Hollywood movie and not Literature per se. I will try Hemingway soon, but in a quick stroll by "For Whom the Bell Tolls", I didn't find that which I look for in a book.
So, I intend to study Compared Literature, focusing on Brazilian x American Literature and in a broader aspect, Latin Languages x German Languages Literature.
Well, so that's is it! I hope to have great discussions here with you guys, and I am sorry if I have offended anyone by my views on American Literature.
I'm new here of course, and somewhat shy at first. I've been a writer for ages but am just now getting my MFA in creative writing at this late stage in my life! And I love it. I've been many things in my life, an accomplished artist when I was younger but then life has its ways of throwing curve balls and I became a successful businesswoman out of necessity, not choice. Now I have the luxury of time to take myself and writing seriously. Loving every minute of the journey!
Hello everyone!
Obviously, I am new here and I'm from the Philippines
I hope I make new friends too!
That's all thank you!
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Hello everyone, as instructed by the site and being programmed to follow instructions implicitly, in compliance with said instructions I am therefore introducing myself. Hi, I'm Robert, and I now find myself being able to do as I've always wanted to do, write and write and write. Now that my children have grown, home, medical insurance, a livable income being provided for, and no longer chained to the vicious cycle of monotonous day to day wage earning, I find myself in the long hoped for period of my life that is considered golden, at the ripe old age of 56, still of sound mind and body, what are the Vegas odds on that? But in this time of blogging Google crazy information overload, information overload of course being an oxymoron, I find myself here, as I was looking for an obscure poem by Aldous Huxley and was directed to your literature rich site, where I struck gold! Namaste ~bob, introduction #5541
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WelcomeHello everyone!
Obviously, I am new here and I'm from the Philippines
I hope I make new friends too!
That's all thank you!
Hello, I'm new and..uh.. I like literature..um..so, I hope I fit in..
Hi
Won't bother mentioning my name, since it is the same as my username. I'm a 42-year old South African who has recently stopped working in order to study English and Theory of Literature. I have an interest in Modernism and early Post-Modernism, and within that I am currently exploring Continental European writers.
Christopher
Hello, Im Dan. Newbie here. Im Russian literature lover. Leo Tolstoy is my favorite writer. Very nice resource here, i found few interesting threads already. Happy to join you all
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Hello! I haven't really written anything since leaving school 13 years ago. I used to write short stories obsessively as a child and I'm not entirely sure why I stopped. Anyway, I've decided to have a go at it again, not that I expect to be any good at it, it's just for the enjoyment. My recent attempts have been pretty bad. In fact, really bad. I find myself dozing off just reading some of them back. What I'm looking for is an opinion or two on exactly why they are bad. It's not that I expect to be able to master writing having been away from it for so long, it's just that I believe you get more enjoyment out of anything the more proficent you become. It's strictly a hobby at the moment though. If I improve a great deal, I might start submitting the odd piece to magaines and such, but that's about the limit of my ambition. Glad to be here!
Haaaai
Yea so i'm new here.... I'm just finishing of year 9, yes I'm young. I am a huge bookworm, mostly because of the fact that my dad owns a bookshop! So I love English, and novels, and love to write. I've been learning french and spanish for a while. I'm half european half asain, girl living in Bahrain. I love, writing, painting, singing and watching WWE.I am a very random child, I get distracted easily, and can be very childish, but when I need to be, I can be serious and am always there for my friends.
I love making friends so yea!
Byee xx
thank you! and you're from Poland! i've always wanted to go thereWelcome
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Welcome!
I am an enigma in a geographical area of acute conformity to specific cultural attitudes that baffle me and consequently cause me confusion and resentment. Everyone says Howdy and expects you to reply in a likewise fashion. There are no secrets on the surface everyone appears to be like everyone else; open, honest, practical, earnest, Believing in a Fearful God that they actually see and raise their arms to, simple and just plain folk.
I on the other hand don't speak to strangers and never say Howdy. I have lots of secrets and never admit to seeing anything I don't see but still have a certainty that I will sometime actually see the Images and Visions that others say they see NOW because I truthfully said I did not see them THEN. I still won't be saying Howdy or telling anyone of the Things I expect others to see because now I too see them.
I'm not Jayat but let me add something to his answer. Gonzalo de Berceo is traditionally considered the first writer to be known by his name in Old Spanish. More strictly, he wrote in Old Riojan, a transitional variety between Old Castilian (Spanish proper) and Old Aragonese, using Basque words from time to time as the region spoke Basque in those times too. (Basque is an old language, completely unrelated to the other seven languages of Spain, which are Romance)
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