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TRUTH AS COMEDY: FIDDLER ON JANE AUSTEN’S ROOF
Some critics describe Jane Austen’s works as novels of social comedy. When she wrote Pride and Prejudice she was just twenty-one years old. Her literary life was comprised between 1786 and 1817. A characteristic for the eighteenth century was the … Continue reading
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ABSURDLY DEAD IN THE PRESENT TENSE
In France, it is even possible to remain a writer without writing, as Rimbaud did, living in the consciousness of his contemporaries after his premature creative death, or Valery during his seventeen year silence. So passionately does France hold literature … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Gide, B. Walker Sampson, Bob Dylan, Charles de Gaulle, Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka Albert Camus, French Pantheon, Kafka Camus, Kafka The Trial, Margaret Atwood, Paul Claudel, Paul Valery, Puppet Kafka, Rimbaud, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, William Faulkner
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CULTURAL PREROGATIVE
In no other country has the great writer received such adulation or the lesser one such respect. To write in France is to make a stake for glory, and ”la gloire” can be a very heady affair since they are … Continue reading
LOOK AT NOTHING BUT SEE EVERYTHING
Andre Gide, a minor novelist, once called the “Comedie Humaine” of Balzac a great fresco crumbling to pieces a little more all the time. Given that he is not entirely wrong, it could be extrapolated today that the novel as … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Andre Gide, Balzac, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Dickens, George Orwell, Hablot K. Browne, Honore de Balzac, John Forster, Oliver Twist, Phiz, Robert William Buss, Shakespeare, Victorian England, Victorian literature, William James, William Shakespeare
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