In 1933, Chatto & Windus agreed to publish Samuel Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks, a collection of ten interrelated stories—his first published work of fiction. At his editor's request, Beckett penned an additional story, «Echo's Bones», to serve as the final piece. However, he’d already killed off several of the characters—including the protagonist, Belacqua—throughout the book, and had to resurrect them from the dead. The story was...
Lothar Mix präsentiert einen Mix verschiedener Kurzgeschichten, in denen oft Kinder eine Rolle spielen, wirft jedoch auch Blicke auf allseits bekannte Märchen und ganz alltägliche Situationen. Der Autor gehört zum Jahrgang 1946 und hat als Rentner wieder angefangen zu schreiben. Er ist Mitglied im Westdeutscher Autoren Verband.
Geschichten von Wendepunkten Man stelle sich ein Kaleidoskop vor, das man immer wieder schüttelt: Jedes Mal ergibt sich ein neues Bild, jedes ein kleines Leben. Nein, kein kleines Leben, sondern eines, das alles beinhaltet, was einen Menschen ausmacht: Liebe, Einsamkeit, Hoffnung, Enttäuschung, Angst und deren Aufhebung, die Frage, ob auch ein anderes Leben möglich wäre. Kann man sich häuten und ganz neu anfangen? So sind es Geschichten von Menschen an einem Wendepunkt, die in diesem Buch...
Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduce Africa’s subaltern position, a position characterized by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack of human rights and a lack of...
Have been many “wild” empires in history when conditional barbarians seized large territories with more developed peoples. But the savage empires quickly crumbled. What is the reason? The simplification of the world is the main reason for the death of an empire. Simple organisms die faster. More the internal imperial bacilli lead to death. And only the Zealots (super people), changing the vector from simplification to a new one, could do something.
Because of his frank and honest portrayal of human sexuality in the controversial works for which he is best known, e.g. «Lady Chatterley’s Lover» and «Women in Love», D. H. Lawrence was not widely respected in his day. In fact at the time of his death he was considered little more than a pornographer. However E. M. Forester challenged this portrayal calling Lawrence «The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation», and with his extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity...
Der Nürnberger Autor Herbert Mundschau legt hier eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten vor, in denen der Leser auf Ausflüge ins Irrationale eingeladen wird. Mit teilweise hintersinnigen Wendungen und überraschenden Tauchgängen ins Umgangssprachliche schwenken die Stücke vom Alltag ins Abenteuer und vom beschaulichen Kaffeekränzchen zu Gewaltfantasien. In der Szenerie der Titelgeschichte beispielsweise findet das, was man in der Tagespresse auf der ersten Seite finden würde, nur ganz am Rande statt....
These essays are written for the students who study a famous all over the world novels. An essays contains basic facts from the writer’s (George Orwell, Harper Lee, Ray Bradbury) biographies, the plot of the books (anti-utopia 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451) are retold, and the main characters and ideas are characterized. It is also shown how the books influenced the literary process and other writers.• The only mistake George Orwell made in his anti-utopia 1984 was the date. A lot...
Edith Wharton was born in 1862 into an aristocratic New York family. Educated by the best governesses and tutors, Wharton profited from an exceptional education. She began her writing career with short stories before moving to novels. Collected in «Ethan Frome and Selected Stories,» are the best of both. In her 1911 novel «Ethan Frome» a young engineer on assignment in a small New England town becomes fascinated by the deformed and troubled local Ethan Frome. This fascination leads him on a...