Wolpe wondered how many young people today even know Saul Bellow or read his work, but mused how wonderful it would be if more children of famous authors wrote about their parents, as Greg Bellow has.
ellauri222.html on line 133: Bellow published his first short story in 1941. It came out in Partisan Review—marking the start of a relationship that was key to establishing Bellow’s reputation as the intellectuals’ chosen novelist. Bellow visited New York frequently, and lived there at various points, but he was never comfortable in the city. “I congratulated myself with being able to deal with New York,” he told Philip Roth near the end of his life, “but I never won any of my struggles there, and I never responded with full human warmth to anything that happened there.”
ellauri222.html on line 137: In the culture of little magazines, friendship is the last thing to prevent one writer from reviewing the work of another. As a novelist happy to have well-disposed reviewers, Bellow had an obvious stake in these friendships. But the friends had a stake in Bellow, too. As Mark Greif points out in his important new study of mid-century intellectual life, “The Age of the Crisis of Man,” Bellow came on the scene at a time when many people imagined the fate of modern man to be somehow tied to the fate of the novel. Was the novel dead or was it not? Much was thought to depend on the answer. And for people who worried about this Bellow was the great hope. Atlas quotes Norman Podhoretz: “There was a sense in which the validity of a whole phase of American experience was felt to hang on the question of whether or not he would turn out to be a great novelist.”
ellauri222.html on line 139: So even “Dangling Man,” an awkwardly written book about which Bellow later said, “I can’t read a page of it without feeling embarrassed,” was received as a sign that the novel might after all be up to its historic task. “Here, for the first time I think, the experience of a new generation has been seized,” Delmore Schwartz wrote, in Partisan Review. In The New Yorker, Edmund Wilson called “Dangling Man” a “testimony on the psychology of a whole generation.” When Bellow’s second novel, “The Victim,” came out, in 1947, Martin Greenberg, in Commentary, explained that Bellow had succeeded in making Jewishness “a quality that informs all of modern life . . . the quality of modernity itself.” In Partisan Review, Elizabeth Hardwick suggested that Bellow might become “the redeeming novelist of the period.”
ellauri222.html on line 141: This notion that Bellow’s achievement as a novelist was redemptive of the form was a consistent theme in the reviews up through “Herzog.” So was the notion that his protagonists were representatives of the modern condition. After “Herzog,” those reactions largely disappeared. People stopped fretting about the death of the novel, and Bellow’s protagonists started being treated as what they always were, oddballs and cranks. But the critical reception of Bellow’s books in the first half of his career funded his reputation. It cashed out, ultimately, in the Nobel Prize. Nobels are awarded to writers who are judged to have universalized the marginal.
ellauri222.html on line 143: As everyone has said, Bellow not least, “Augie March” was the breakthrough book. Bellow ascribed its origin to a visionary moment. In 1948, he had gone with Anita to Paris for two years, supported by a Guggenheim fellowship. (Bellow hated Paris.) He was at work on a novel called “The Crab and the Butterfly,” which apparently concerned two men arguing in a hospital room. In the version of the epiphany he told to Roth, he was walking to his writing studio one morning when he was distracted by the routine Parisian sight of the street gutters being flushed:
ellauri222.html on line 145: I remember saying to myself, “Well, why not take a short break and have at least as much freedom of movement as this running water.” My first thought was that I must get rid of the hospital novel—it was poisoning my life. And next I recognized that this was not what being a novelist was supposed to have meant. . . . I felt just now that I had allowed myself to be dominated by the atmosphere of misery or surliness, that I had agreed somehow to be shut in or bottled up.
ellauri222.html on line 147: Into his head popped the memory of a friend from childhood, a boy named Charlie August—and Augie March was born. The novel poured out of him. “All I had to do was to be there with buckets to catch it,” he said. Being abroad, he thought, encouraged the sense of compositional freedom. He wrote much of the novel in Europe—in Paris, Salzburg, and Rome. He later boasted that not a single word of it was written in Chicago.
ellauri222.html on line 149: The subject of “Augie March” is the same as the subject of “Dangling Man” and “The Victim”: the danger of becoming trapped in other people’s definition of you. In the case of “Augie March,” the person in danger of being trapped was Saul Bellow. “This was not what being a novelist was supposed to have meant”: he is referring to the expectations of his intellectual backers. He realized that he didn’t want to be the great hope of the novel or to give voice to a generation’s angst. He wanted to write up the life he knew in the way James Joyce had written up the life he knew, and to transform it into a fantastic verbal artifact, a book that broke all the rules.
ellauri222.html on line 163: Bellow must have guessed that “Augie March” would distress some of his admirers. It did. He showed a hundred pages of the manuscript to Lionel Trilling. “It’s very curious, it’s very interesting,” Trilling told him, “but somehow it’s wrong.” When the book came out, Trilling wrote a positive notice in the newsletter of the book club he directed but registered concern about a dangerous notion he detected in the novel, the notion that one could have a meaningful life independent of one’s social function. Bellow wrote to Trilling to say (disingenuously) that he had written the novel without much of a moral purpose in mind. Trilling wrote back. “You mustn’t ignore the doctrinal intention of your book,” he said.
ellauri222.html on line 165: In Commentary, Podhoretz complained that the novel lacked development and that its exuberance was forced. He called it a failure. Podhoretz was one of Trilling’s protégés, and Bellow always believed that Trilling was behind the review, although Podhoretz denied it. But Atlas says that the art critic Clement Greenberg, then an editor at Commentary, having recently come over from Partisan Review, claimed that the editors had put Podhoretz up to it. It was felt in New York circles, Greenberg said, that Bellow had gone a little too far.
ellauri222.html on line 169: At Bard, Bellow became close friends with a literature professor named Jack Ludwig. As Leader describes him, Ludwig was an oversized personality, a big man, extravagant, a shameless purveyor of bad Yiddish, and an operator. Ludwig idolized Bellow; people who knew them said that Ludwig wanted to be Bellow. He flattered Bellow, went for long walks with him, started up a literary journal with him, and generally insinuated himself into Bellow’s life. Bellow accepted the proffer of adulatory attentiveness. The couples (Ludwig was married) socialized together. This was the period when Bellow wrote “Seize the Day,” which Partisan Review published in a single issue, in 1956, after The New Yorker turned it down, and “Henderson the Rain King,” published in 1959, a novel whose hero was based on a neighbor of the Bellows in upstate New York.
ellauri222.html on line 179: I have just given you the back story and the dramatis personae of “Herzog.” “Herzog” is a novel about a forty-seven-year-old man having a nervous breakdown after learning that his much younger wife, who has left him abruptly, had been cheating on him with his closest friend. The man seeks succor in the arms of a loving, patient, and understanding woman. There is at least one respect in which the novel is not based on real life: Bellow didn’t have a nervous breakdown. He wrote “Herzog” instead.
ellauri222.html on line 183: “Herzog” is a revenge novel. The ex-wife, Madeleine, is a stone-cold man-killer. Her lover, Valentine Gersbach, is described as a “loud, flamboyant, ass-clutching brute.” Ludwig had a Ph.D. and a damaged foot; Bellow makes Gersbach a radio announcer with a wooden leg. The Herzog character is passive, loving, an innocent soul who cannot make sense of a world in which people like his estranged wife and her lover can exist. He is an ex-university professor, the author of a distinguished tome called “Romanticism and Christianity.” The Rosette Lamont character, called Ramona, is a sexpot with a heart of gold; she specializes in intimate candlelight dinners and lacy lingerie. She is a professor of love, not French.
ellauri222.html on line 185: “Herzog” was nevertheless received the way all Bellow’s novels had been received: as a report on the modern condition. Many of the critics who reviewed it—Irving Howe, Philip Rahv, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Richard Ellmann, Richard Poirier—knew Bellow personally and knew all about the divorce. (Poirier was an old friend of Ludwig’s; the review he published, in Partisan Review, was a hatchet job.) None of these reviewers mentioned the autobiographical basis of the book, and several of them warned against reading it autobiographically, without ever explaining why anyone might want to. The world had no way of knowing that the story was not completely made up.
ellauri222.html on line 187: Howe wrote that “Herzog” was a novel “driven by an idea”—the idea that modern man can overcome alienation and despair. Howe could see the appeal of this idea, but he was worried that it might not have been “worked out with sufficient care.” The reviewer in the Times Book Review thought that the novel offered “a credo for the times.” “The age is full of fearful abysses,” the reviewer explained. “If people are to go ahead, they must move into and through these abysses,” and so on.
ellauri222.html on line 191: The determination to consider the novel strictly as fiction extended even to its characters. Rosette Lamont reviewed the novel. She, too, treated the book as pure make-believe. She breezed right by the Ramona character (“Her religion is sex, a welcome relief from Madeleine’s phony conversion . . . but Herzog is too divided in his mind, too busy with resentment to free himself from a heavy conscience. Besides he is suspicious of pleasure, having learned Julien Sorel’s lesson,” and so on). She concluded with the thought that at the end of the novel Herzog enters into “a theandric relationship with the world around him.”
ellauri222.html on line 193: And it got even better. Jack Ludwig reviewed the novel. He informed readers of Holiday that “the book is a major breakthrough.” By no means should it be read as autobiography—“as if an artist with Bellow’s enormous gifts were simply playing at second-guessing reality, settling scores.” No, in this book, Ludwig wrote, “Bellow is after something greater.” The greater something turns out to be “man’s contradiction, his absurdity, his alienation,” and so on. It was pretty chutzpadik, as even Bellow had to admit. But by then he was laughing all the way to the bank.
ellauri222.html on line 195: You can see the biographical problem. From the beginning, Bellow drew on people he knew, including his wives and girlfriends and the members of his own family, for his characters. In “Augie March,” almost every character—and there are dozens—was directly based on some real-life counterpart. Most of “Herzog” is a roman à clef. Leader therefore decided to treat the novels as authoritative sources of information about the people in Bellow’s life. When Leader tells us about Jack Ludwig and Sondra Tschacbasov, he quotes the descriptions of Gersbach and Madeleine in “Herzog.” In the case of the many relatives with counterparts in “Augie March,” this can get confusing. You’re not always sure whether you’re reading about a person or a fictional version of that person.
ellauri222.html on line 197: One reason for reading biographies of writers like Bellow, who draw from people in their own lives, is to learn what those people were really like, or at least what they were like to someone who is not Bellow. You often can’t do that with Leader’s biography. Leader also wants to assess Bellow’s accomplishment as a novelist. He has to keep three balls in the air at once: the biographical story, an interpretation of the fiction as autobiography, and a consideration of the fiction as fiction. That’s why his book is so long.
ellauri222.html on line 199: Structure was always Bellow’s weak point. One of his first editors at Partisan Review, Dwight Macdonald, worried about what he called a “centerless facility.” Podhoretz was not wrong about the problem of shapelessness in “Augie March.” The novel’s antic style is like a mechanical bull. For a few hundred pages, Bellow is having the time of his life, letting his invention take him where it will. By the end, he is just hanging on, waiting for the music to stop. It takes the story five hundred and thirty-six pages to get there.
ellauri222.html on line 201: Leader thinks that Bellow plunged into his books and wrote on sheer enthusiasm, then surfaced after a hundred pages or so and wondered how to get back to shore. There is very little moral logic to his stories. Things just happen. (A major exception is “Seize the Day,” which is formally perfectly realized. But that book is a novella, a day in the life. It doesn’t require a plot.)
ellauri222.html on line 205: Horrified that Madeleine and Gersbach might be abusing his child (in the novel, a girl), Herzog rushes off to his deceased father’s house, finds a gun his father owned, and goes to Madeleine’s. It is evening. He creeps into the yard and watches Madeleine and Gersbach through the window, loaded pistol in hand. What he sees is an ordinary domestic scene. Gersbach is giving the little girl a bath. Herzog creeps away.
ellauri222.html on line 211: But “Ravelstein” is a revenge novel, too. It’s not really about Ravelstein/Bloom. It’s about the narrator, a writer named Chick, who has been treated cruelly by his wife, Vela, a beautiful and brilliant physicist—a wicked caricature of Bellow’s fourth wife, the mathematician Alexandra Ionescu Tulcea. There are also a couple of drive-by take-downs along the way—of Mircea Eliade, a historian of religion at Chicago rumored to have been involved in the fascist Romanian Iron Guard, and of the owner of a restaurant on St. Martin, in the Caribbean, where Bellow contracted a case of food poisoning that nearly killed him. He brings them into the story just to skewer them.
ellauri222.html on line 255: Bellow was born Solomon Bellow in Lachine, Quebec, in 1915, two years after his parents had arrived there from St Petersburg. When he was nine, the family moved to the Humboldt Park neighbourhood of Chicago. His mother, Liza, died when Saul was 17, but not before she had passed on to him her love of the Jewish Bible (he learned Hebrew at four). His first serious critical success was The Adventures of Augie March (1953), but it was not until his 1964 novel, Herzog, became a bestseller that he earned any real money. His elder brothers, both businessmen, were by this time making serious cash, and regarded him, he once said, as "some schmuck with a pen". Mary Cheever, the wife of John Cheever, believed the two got on so well because "they were both women-haters". He has nothing good to say about feminism. Bellow has a go at Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy (the one is "rash", the other "stupid"). In 1994, however, he ate a poisonous fish in the Caribbean, and fell into a coma that lasted five weeks. He dreaded a loss of virility.
ellauri222.html on line 275: Enough: you will say that all of that is acknowledged in IMAC. Yes, and no. You tell us that Ira is a brute, a murderer. But who else is there? Ira and Eve are at the core of your novel – and what does this pair amount to?
ellauri222.html on line 359: The foremost theme in The Adventures of Augie March is the search for identity. Unsure of what he wants from life, Augie is pulled along into the schemes of friends and strangers, trying on different identities and learning about the world through jobs ranging from union organizer to eagle trainer to book thief. His path seems random, but as Augie notes, quoting the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, “a man’s character is his fate.” As Augie goes through life, knocking on various doors, these doors of fate open up for him as if by random, but the knocks are unquestionably his own. In the end of the novel, Augie defines his identity as a “Columbus of those near-at-hand,” whose purpose in life is to knock some eggs. Augie notes that “various jobs” are the Rosetta stone, or key, to his entire life. Americans define themselves by their work (having no roots, family or land to stick to), and Augie is a sort of vagabond, trying on different identities as he goes along. Unwilling to limit himself by specializing in any one area, Augie drifts from job to job. He becomes a handbill-distributor, a paperboy, a Woolworth’s stocker, a newsstand clerk, a trinket-seller, a Christmas helper at a department store, a flower delivery boy, a butler, a clerk at fine department stores, a paint salesman, a dog groomer, a book thief, a coal yard worker, a housing inspector, a union organizer, an eagle-trainer, a gambler, a literary researcher, a business machine salesman, a merchant marine, and ultimately an importer-exporter working in wartime Europe. Augie’s job changing is emblematic of the social mobility that is so quintessentially American. Augie is the American Everyman, continually reinventing himself, like Donald Duck. Olemme kaikki oman onnemme Akuja, joopa joo. Yrmf, olet tainnut mainita. You are telling me!
ellauri222.html on line 363: At the end of the novel, Augie reflects on his vagabond existence and laughs aloud. “That’s the animal ridens in me,” he says, “forever rising up.” He dreaded a loss of virility.
ellauri222.html on line 365: One of the major themes of the novel is the human tendency toward dishonesty. Augie is not a particularly honest character. He cheats, he steals, and lies quite frequently. Dishonesty characterizes many of the other characters in the novel, including Grandma, Einhorn, Mimi (who lies to doctors that she thinks her pregnancy abnormal), Stella, Agnes, and Mintouchian. The only characters who do not lie or cheat are the simple-minded Mama and Georgie. Lying appears necessary for people to survive in a Machiavellian world. As Mintouchian puts it: “I’m a great admirer of our species. I stand in awe of the genius of the race. But a large part of this genius is devoted to lying and seeming what you are not.” The ethics of the American Jew. The book starts with a lie: I am an American, Chicago born."
ellauri222.html on line 555: Augie, the hero of the novel, is a Jewish-American boy coming of age in Depression-era Chicago. Since their father abandoned the family, Augie and his two brothers are raised by their slow-witted mother and surrogate “Grandma” Lausch. Augie, good-looking with “tall hair” and green-gray eyes, is a soft-hearted young man whose sympathy for others often gets him into trouble. He holds a variety of jobs throughout his life and learns from different people he encounters. People tend to “adopt” Augie and try to groom him into the person they want him to be, but he really wants to become his own person. The name Augie is short for “August,” which means “Great.” Augie has a desire for greatness, but he has no idea of how to do it, thinking it beyond his ability to “breathe the pointy, star-furnished air at its highest difficulty.” He goes along through life repeating the same mistakes. In the end, Augie realizes that his life has been a voyage of discovery. Whether or not he has been a success, he doesn’t know, but he will continue with unquenchable optimism and hope, “forever rising up.”
ellauri222.html on line 571: Harold Mintouchian is a wealthy, distinguished Armenian lawyer and international businessman who is the married lover of a friend of Stella’s and becomes a close friend and mentor of Augie. At the end of the novel, Augie works for him as a black market trader in Europe. Augie looks up to the older man as “a sage, prophet, or guru, a prince of experience with his jewel toes” and seeks his wisdom. Mintouchian, who has seen much of the darker side of human nature through his law practice, has more realistic ideas than the love-bitten Augie about what to expect from human relationships. Secrecy and lies, he tells Augie, are unavoidable. “Mind you, I’m a great admirer of our species. I stand in awe of the genius of the race. But a large part of this genius is devoted to lying and seeming what you are not.” He confesses to Augie that his mistress, Agnes, is keeping secrets from him, while he is keeping secrets from his wife.
ellauri222.html on line 745: The question arises why Voltaire inserts such a character in the novella, and what functions he performs in the story. On the one hand, Lord Pococurante embodies the then French aristocracy, the social class, surfeited with everything. The author attracts the reader’s attention to a very curious paradox: people, who live in luxury, cannot enjoy it. Though it is not explicitly stated by Voltaire, such people are doomed to failure. At this point, we can say with certainty that Voltaire is prophetic in this novella.
ellauri222.html on line 757: Saul Bellow is widely recognized as America's preeminent living novelist. His fiction, which is as intellectually demanding as it is imaginatively appealing, steadfastly affirms the value of the human soul while simultaneously recognizing the claims of community and the demoralizing inauthenticity of daily life. Refusing to give in to the pessimism and despair that threaten to overwhelm American experience, Bellow offers a persistently optimistic, though often tentative and ambiguous, alternative to postmodern alienation. In their struggle to understand their past and reorder their present, his protagonists chart a course of possibility for all who would live meaningfully in urban American society and make loads of money.
ellauri222.html on line 759: Bellow's first two novels, Dangling Man and The Victim, are brief and disciplined works, darker in mood and less intellectually complex than the later fiction but featuring protagonists who anticipate later Bellovian heroes both in their introspection and in their resistance to urban apathy. In Paris, Saul realized he need not copycat Flaubert and that instead he could write as he spoke. The result was Augie.
ellauri222.html on line 761: The first novel to display Bellow's characteristic expansiveness and optimism, The Adventures of Augie March presents a dazzling panorama of comically eccentric characters in a picaresque tale narrated by the irrepressible title character, who defends human possibility by embracing the hope that "There may gods turn up anywhere." Subsequent novels vary in tone from the intensity of Seize the Day to the exuberance of Henderson the Rain King to the ironic ambiguity of Herzog, but all explore the nature of human male freedom and the tensions between the individual's need for self and the needs of society. Augie March, Tommy Wilhelm, Eugene Henderson, and Moses Herzog all yearn to please themselves by finding the beauty in life. By creating these highly individualistic characters and the milieu in which they move, Bellow reveals the flashes of the extraordinary in the ordinary that make such fun possible and rejects the attitude that everyday life must be trivial and ignoble. It is like that just for the losers.
ellauri222.html on line 767: In their quest to find the beaver that gives meaning to life, Bellow's protagonists must also come to terms with death. The message Bellow conveys in almost all of his novels is that one must fear death to know the meaning of life and what it means to be human. Henderson overcomes his fear of death when he is buried and symbolically resurrected in the African king Dahfu's experiment. Similarly, in Seize the Day, Tommy Wilhelm confronts death in a symbolic drowning. Charlie Citrine in Humboldt's Gift echoes Whitman in viewing death as the essential question, pointing out that it is only through death that Sauls can complete the cycle of life by liberating self from the body. Bellow's meditations on death darken in Mr. Sammler's Planet and The Dean's December. While the title character in Mr. Sammler's Planet eagerly awaits the death of the person he most values in the world, Bellow contemplates the approaching death of Western culture at the hands of those who have abandoned humanistic values. The Dean's December presents an apocalyptic vision of urban decay in a Chicago totally lacking the comic touches that soften Charlie Citrone's portrait of this same city as a "moronic inferno" in Humboldt's Gift. An uncharacteristically bleak yarn from he old standup comic. With More Die of Heartbreak and the recent novellas, however, Bellow returns to his more characteristic blend of pathos and farce in contemplating the relationship between life and death. In the recent Ravelstein, Bellow once again charts this essential confrontation when Saul recounts not only his best friend's death from AIDS but also his own near-death experience from food poisoning. Through this foreground, in a fictionalized memoir to his own gay friend Allan Bloom, Bellow reveals the resilient love and tenderness that offer the modern world its saving grace.
ellauri222.html on line 791: Because Bellow refuses to devalue human potential in even his bleakest scenarios, his novels often come under attack for their affirmative endings. Augie hails himself as a new Columbus, the rediscoverer of America; Henderson, while triumphantly returning home with his new charges, dances with glee, "leaping, leaping, pounding, and tingling over the pure white lining of the grey Arctic silence." Herzog inexplicably evades his fate, emerging from the flux of his tortured mind to reclaim his sanity and his confidence in the future. Yet, the victories of Bellow's heroes are not unqualified, but rather as ambiguous and tenuous as is the human condition itself. As a new Columbus, Augie speaks from exile in Europe; in holding the orphan child, Henderson recalls the pain of his separation from his own father; by renouncing his self-pity and his murderous rage at his ex-wife Madeleine, Herzog reduces but does not expiate his guilt. Nonetheless, these characters earn whatever spiritual victory they reap through their penes and their refusal to succumb to doubt and cynicism. Through their perseverance in seeking the truth of human existence, they ultimately renew themselves by transcending to an intuitive spiritual awareness that is no less real because it must be taken on faith.
ellauri222.html on line 795: Though in some ways separated from American society, Bellow's protagonists also strongly connect their identity with America. Augie begins his adventures by claiming, "I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city." Almost all of Bellow's novels take place in an American city, most often Chicago or New York. Through his depiction of urban reality, Bellow anchors his novels in the actual world, and he uses the city as his central metaphor for contemporary materialism. Although recognizing the importance of history and memory, Bellow's novels maintain a constant engagement with the present moment. His characters move in the real world, confronting sensuous images of urban chaos and clutter that often threaten to overwhelm them. Looking down on the Hudson River, Tommy Wilhelm sees "tugs with matted beards of cordage" and "the red bones of new apartments rising on the bluffs." Sammler denounces contemporary New Yorkers for the "free ways of barbarism" that they practice beneath the guise of "civilized order, property rights [and] refined technological organization." In Humboldt's Gift, which is replete with images of cannibalism and vampirism, Charlie Citrone sees Von Trenck, the source of his material success, as "the blood-scent that attracted the sharks of Chicago." Acknowledging the influence of the city on his fiction, Bellow himself has remarked, "I don't know how I could possibly separate my knowledge of life such as it is, from the city. I could no more tell you how deeply it's gotten into my bones than the lady who paints radium dials in the clock factory can tell you." However, although the city serves to identify the deterministic social pressures that threaten to destroy civilization, Bellow's heroes refuse to become its victims and instead draw on their latent nondeterministic resources of vitality to reassert their uniquely American belief in individual freedom, as well as their faith in the possibility of community.
ellauri222.html on line 797: Except for Clara Velde in A Theft, the protagonists in Bellow's novels and novellas are all male. The Bellovian hero typically seeks erotic pleasure, emotional security, and egoistic confirmation from the women in his life. In marriage, his relationships with women are conflicted, and he often retreats from his role as husband to a sensuous but selfish and demanding wife who paradoxically represents both his yearning for freewheeling sex happiness and society's pressure to relinquish the freedom so essential to his self-realization. Like his male characters who all are Saul lookalikes, Bellow's females are often interchangeable and serve roles of little dramatic import. However, although the author has come under increasing criticism for his superficial treatment of women, his depiction of women and male-female relationships serves to reinforce the psychological crisis that each male protagonist must negotiate to empty their scrotums so as to achieve peace and fulfillment.
ellauri222.html on line 799: Stylistically, Bellow's fiction reflects some of the same tensions that his protagonists seek to balance. His concern with social and personal destruction has been traced to the common run of European writers such as Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Sartre, and Camus. But Bellow's fiction also has many ties to the American literary tradition. His neotranscendentalism (what? Emersonian tomfoolery I guess), his identification with America, and the loose form of his most acclaimed novels link him most obviously to Emerson and Whitman.
ellauri222.html on line 819: An intensely intellectual writer who peppers his novels with allusions, Bellow draws on many cultural traditions in his analysis of both the sources of American experience and its present manifestations. His fiction fully documents the decline of Western civilization without conceding its obvious demise, and the ambiguity and tenuousness of even his most positive endings balance sadness and comic skepticism with the steadfast faith that he the artist can effect coherence and order, or failing that a lot of cash, out of the chaos of modern experience. His tip for success: kusettakaa minkä jaxatte! For his achievement in confronting the modern existential dilemma with compassion and humor, Bellow's place in twentieth-century American literary history seems assured by drooling groupies like myself.
ellauri222.html on line 837: British critics tend to regard the American predilection for Big Novels as a vulgar neurosis — like the American predilection for big cars or big hamburgers. Oh God, we think: here comes another sweating, free-dreaming maniac with another thousand-pager; here comes another Big Mac. First, Dos Passos produced the Great American Novel; now they all want one. Yet in a sense every ambitious American novelist is genuinely trying to write a novel called USA. Perhaps this isn’t just a foible; perhaps it is an inescapable response to America – twentieth-century America, racially mixed and mobile, twenty-four hour, endless, extreme, superabundantly various. American novels are big all right, but partly because America is big too. You need plenty of nerve, ink and energy to do justice to the place, and no one has made greater efforts than Saul Bellow. In 1976 Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, praised by the Swedes ‘for human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture’. Many times in Bellow’s novels we are reminded that ‘being human’ isn’t the automatic condition of every human being. Like freedom or sanity, it is not a given but a gift, a talent, an accomplishment, an objective. The busiest sections of the Chicago bookstores, I noticed, were those marked ‘Personal Growth’.
ellauri222.html on line 886: Ozymandias (/ˌɒziˈmændiəs/ oz-ee-MAN-dee-əs; real name Adrian Alexander Veidt) is a fictional anti-villain in the graphic novel limited series Watchmen, published by DC Comics. Created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, named "Ozymandias" in the manner of Ramesses II, his name recalls the famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, which takes as its theme the fleeting nature of empire and is excerpted as the epigraph of one of the chapters of Watchmen. Ozymandias is ranked number 25 on Wizard's Top 200 Comic Book Characters list and number 21 on IGN's Top 100 Villains list. No, wait, Ozymandias was a Greek name for the pharaoh Ramesses II (r. 1279–1213 BC), derived from a part of his throne name, Usermaatre. In 1817, Shelley began writing the poem "Ozymandias", after the British Museum acquired the Younger Memnon, a head-and-torso fragment of a statue of Ramesses II, which dated from the 13th century BC. Earlier, in 1816, the Italian archeologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni had "removed" the 7.25-short-ton (6.58 t; 6,580 kg) statue fragment from the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple of Ramesses II at Thebes, Egypt. The reputation of the statue fragment preceded its arrival to Western Europe; after his Egyptian expedition in 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte had failed to acquire the Younger Memnon for France. Although the British Museum expected delivery of the antiquity in 1818, the Younger Memnon did not arrive in London until 1821. Shelley published his poems before the statue fragment of Ozymandias arrived in Britain, and the view of modern scholarship is that Shelley never saw the statue, although he might have learned about it from news reports, as it was well known even in its previous location near Luxor.
ellauri223.html on line 153: New Atlantis is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published posthumously in 1626. It appeared unheralded and tucked into the back of a longer work of natural history, Sylva sylvarum (forest of materials). In New Atlantis, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit" are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of the mythical Bensalem. The plan and organisation of his ideal college, Salomon's House (or Shlomo's House), envisioned the modern research university in both applied and pure sciences.
ellauri223.html on line 157: The novel depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, which is discovered by the crew of a European ship after they are lost in the Pacific Ocean somewhere west of Peru. The minimal plot serves the gradual unfolding of the island, its customs, but most importantly, its state-sponsored scientific institution, Salomon's House, "which house or college ... is the very eye of this kingdom."
ellauri226.html on line 94: D.H. Lawrence’s foreword to Deledda’s novel The Mother, which appeared in the English editions of the 1920’s, is reprinted in the new edition of M.G. Steegman’s translation La Madre (The Woman and the Priest) or The Mother, edited with an introduction and chronology by Eric Lane. London: Daedalus/Hippocrane, 1987.
ellauri226.html on line 100: of Grazia Deledda, the novelist, and l see a harher’s
ellauri226.html on line 140: Nuovo, however, looked placid and tame. Nuovo was home to the Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda, whose novels Lawrence so admired, but her modest birthplace was closed. We walked around aimlessly, seeing the place through his eyes, but, of course, through Lawrence’s eyes “there’s nothing to see.” This is no longer quite true; there are two good museums in town. But, by now, it had taken on the sound of a mantra. “Sights are an irritating bore,” he wrote. “Happy is the town that has nothing to show.”
ellauri236.html on line 165: After Chase left home at the age of 18, he worked in sales, primarily focusing on books and literature. He sold children's encyclopaedias, while also working in a bookshop. He also served as an executive for a book wholesaler, before turning to a writing career that produced more than 90 mystery books. His interests included photography, of a professional standard, reading, and listening to classical music and opera. As a form of relaxation between novels, he put together highly complicated and sophisticated Meccano models.
ellauri236.html on line 169: Prohibition and the ensuing Great Depression in the US (1929–39) had given rise to the Chicago gangster culture prior to World War II. This, combined with Chase's book trade experience, convinced him that there was a big demand for gangster stories. After reading James M. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), and having read about the American gangster Ma Barker and her sons, and with the help of maps and a slang dictionary, he wrote No Orchids for Miss Blandish in his spare time, he claimed over a period of six weekends, though his papers suggest it took longer. The book achieved remarkable notoriety and became one of the best-selling books of the decade. It was the subject of the 1944 essay "Raffles and Miss Blandish" by George Orwell (alla). Chase and Robert Nesbitt adapted it to a stage play of the same name which ran in London's West End to good reviews. The 1948 film adaptation was widely denounced as salacious due to the film's portrayal of violence and sexuality. Robert Aldrich did a remake, The Grissom Gang, in 1971.
ellauri236.html on line 186: Several other points need noticing before one can grasp the full implications of this book. To begin with, its central story bears a very marked resemblance to William Faulkner's novel, Sanctuary. Therefore, it is not, as one might expect, the product of an illiterate hack, but a brilliant piece of plagiarism, with hardly a wasted word or a jarring note anywhere. Thirdly, the whole book, récit as well as dialogue, is written in the American language; the author, an Englishman who has (I believe) never been in the United States, seems to have made a complete mental transference to the American underworld. Fourthly, and what is worst (from the point of view of a serious writer like myself) the book sold, according to its publishers, no less than half a million copies. Actually 2.
ellauri236.html on line 206: Until recently the characteristic adventure stories of the English-speaking peoples have been stories in which the hero fights against odds. This is true all the way from Robin Hood to Pop-eye the Sailor. Perhaps the basic myth of the Western world is Jack the Giant-killer, but to be brought up to date this should be renamed Jack the Dwarf-killer, and there already exists a considerable literature which teaches, either overtly or implicitly, that one should side with the big man against the little man. Most of what is now written about foreign policy is simply an embroidery on this theme, and for several decades such phrases as ‘Play the game’, ‘Don't hit a man when he's down’ and ‘It's not cricket’ have never failed to draw a snigger from anyone of intellectual pretensions. What is comparatively new is to find the accepted pattern, according to which (a) right is right and wrong is wrong, whoever wins, and (b) weakness must be respected, disappearing from popular literature as well. When I first read D. H. Lawrence's novels, at the age of about twenty, I was puzzled by the fact that there did not seem to be any classification of the characters into ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Lawrence seemed to sympathize with all of them about equally, and this was so unusual as to give me the feeling of having lost my bearings. Today no one would think of looking for heroes and villains in a serious novel, but in lowbrow fiction one still expects to find a sharp distinction between right and wrong and between legality and illegality. The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. But the popularity of No Orchids and the American books and magazines to which it is akin shows how rapidly the doctrine of ‘realism’ is gaining ground.
ellauri236.html on line 208: Several people, after reading No Orchids, have remarked to me, ‘It's pure Fascism’. This is a correct description, although the book has not the smallest connexion with politics and very little with social or economic problems. It has merely the same relation to Fascism as, say Trollope's novels have to nineteenth-century capitalism. It is a daydream appropriate to a totalitarian age. In his imagined world of gangsters Chase is presenting, as it were, a distilled version of the modern political scene, in which such things as mass bombing of civilians, the use of hostages, torture to obtain confessions, secret prisons, execution without trial, floggings with rubber truncheons, drownings in cesspools, systematic falsification of records and statistics, treachery, bribery, and quislingism are normal and morally neutral, even admirable when they are done in a large and bold way. The average man is not directly interested in politics, and when he reads, he wants the current struggles of the world to be translated into a simple story about individuals. He can take an interest in Slim and Fenner as he could not in the G.P.U. and the Gestapo. People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it. A twelve-year-old boy worships Jack Dempsey. An adolescent in a Glasgow slum worships Al Capone. An aspiring pupil at a business college worships Lord Nuffield. A New Statesman reader worships Stalin. There is a difference in intellectual maturity, but none in moral outlook. Thirty years ago the heroes of popular fiction had nothing in common with Mr. Chase's gangsters and detectives, and the idols of the English liberal intelligentsia were also comparatively sympathetic figures. Between Holmes and Fenner on the one hand, and between Abraham Lincoln and Stalin on the other, there is a similar gulf.
ellauri236.html on line 370: Chase wrote No Orchids For Miss Blandish over a period of six weekends in 1938. The novel was influenced by the American crime writer James M. Cain and the stories featured in the Pulp magazine Black Breathing Mask. Although he had never visited America, Chase reportedly wrote the book as a bet to pen a story about American gangsters that would out-do The Postman Always Rings Twice in terms of obscenity and daring.
ellauri236.html on line 382: Upon publication, the book was an instant commercial success, selling over half a million copies within five years, despite wartime pulp shortages (thanx to Finland fighting on the other side). It was also controversial, due to its violence and risqué content. In 1944, it was the subject of an essay by George Orwell in Horizon, Raffles and Miss Blandish, in which Orwell claimed that the novel bordered on the obscene.
ellauri236.html on line 384: In 1947, the sado-eroticism in Chase's book was parodied by Raymond Queneau in his pastiche novel, We Always Treat Women Too Well. In 1961, the novel was extensively rewritten and revised by the author because he thought the world of 1939 too distant for a new generation of readers (confusion can result if readers of the Orwell essay refer his quotations and references to the 1962 edition).
ellauri236.html on line 386: In 1973, Gene D. Phillips of Loyola University of Chicago remarked on the influence of William Faulkner's 1931 novel Sanctuary, writing that, "It is a matter of record that [No Orchids for Miss Blandish] was heavily indebted to Sanctuary for its plot line." Phillips also stated that Slim Grisson, who was identified by Phillips as the main antagonist, was based on Popeye The Sailor Man, a criminal in Faulkner's novel. Onko se sama Kippari Kalle joka heilastelee Olkan kanssa ja hoitaa pikku Hajuhernettä?
ellauri236.html on line 388: In 1999, the novel was picked in a survey of the best books from the 20th century by the French retailer Fnac and the Paris newspaper Le Monde in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century.
ellauri236.html on line 514: Over the years, Chase developed a distinct, signature style in his writing that was fast-paced, with little explanations or details about the surroundings or weather or the unreliable characters. Characters in his novels and short stories would be more coherent than consistent who acted and reacted with unbreakable logic. Punchy sentences, short bursts of dialogue in authentic sounding dictionary slang with plenty of action were the characteristics of his writing.
ellauri236.html on line 516: Chase was subject to several court cases during his career. In 1942, his novel Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief (1941), a lurid account of the white slave trade, was banned by the British authorities after the author and his publisher Jarrold were found guilty of an obscene book. Each was fined a hefty £100. Later, the Anglo-American crime author Raymond Chandler proved that Chase had lifted whole sections of his work in Blonde's Requiem (published 1945) forcing Chase to issue an apology in The Bestseller.
ellauri236.html on line 520: Chase's novels were so thick that the reader was compelled to turn the pages in a non-stop effort to reach the end of the book. The final page often produced a totally unexpected plot twist. (Ei kuitenkaan tossa lähtöjuhlissa, kurkistin.) His early books contained some violence that matched the era in which they were written. Unfortunately, sex was never explicit and, though often hinted at, seldom happened. That would invariably leave even his most die-hard fans disappointed. This may be why his books failed to take hold in the American market.
ellauri236.html on line 522: In many of his novels, treacherous women play a significant role. The protagonist falls in love with one and is prepared to kill someone at her behest. Only when he is killed, does he realise that the woman was manipulating him for her own ends. He never got it into her backend well and good, despite all the promises.
ellauri238.html on line 271: Pena sanoi että viina söi siltä muistin, sen toisenkin äidin. Entäs ensimmäinen? Suomalaisen modernin runouden tunnetuimpiin nimiin 1960-luvulta kuulunut Pentti Saarikoski syntyi syyskuun toisena päivänä 1937 Impilahden Pitkärannassa. Hänen vanhempansa olivat Simo ja Elli Saarikoski. Pentin äiti työskenteli parin vuoden ajan opettajana kansakouluissa. Myöhemmin hän vastasi tehdaskirjanpidosta ja kassahoitajan apulaisen tehtävistä Diesen Wood Companyssa. Simo työskenteli samassa tehtaassa, mutta joutui lähtemään sieltä alkoholiongelmansa takia. Sittemmin hän kirjoitti novelleja eri lehtiin. Nuorena hän haaveili urheilijan urasta. Pitkärannassa Pentti vietti lapsuutensa kaksi ensimmäistä vuotta. Karjalainen syntyperä oli Saarikoskelle tärkeä. Hän korosti sitä koko elämänsä ajan. Hei mutta sehän on kuin Aili Konttisen Marquetta! Talvisodan aikana Saarikosken perhe joutui lähtemään evakkoon Impilahdelta ja päätyi Ruotsiin. Sodan jälkeen Saarikosket asettuivat Helsinkiin. Vuonna 1975 Saarikoski palasi Ruotsiin Mia Bernerin käsipuolessa.
ellauri240.html on line 209: Peyton Place is the story of a small New England town that, beneath its calm exterior, is filled with scandal and dark secrets. The novel contains sex, suicide, abortion, murder and a subsequent trial, and rape. The citizens of Gilmanton were outraged, certain that Grace Metalious was describing real people in the book and sure that she had brought shame and unwarranted notoriety to their town. After Peyton Place was published, the whole image of the small town in America was forever changed. From then on the very phrase "Peyton Place" was used to describe a town that is rife with deep secrets and rampant sex beneath the veneer of picturesque calm.
ellauri240.html on line 211: Peyton Place was banned in many communities; in fact, the local public library refused to purchase a copy of the book and did not have one until 1976, when newswoman Barbara Walters donated one to them. In Gilmanton there were threats of libel suits against Grace Metalious. Ministers and political leaders all over the country condemned the novel, claiming that it would corrupt the morals of young people who read it. The novel was banned altogether in Canada and several other countries.
ellauri240.html on line 215: Grace went on to write three other novels: Return to Peyton Place (1959), The Tight White Collar (1960), and No Adam in Eden (1963). None of them achieved the same kind success as Peyton Place, though there are critics who feel that No Adam in Eden, a gritty book about the lives of mill workers in Manchester, is her best. By 1960 Grace and George had reconciled and remarried, only to separate again in 1963. She died in 1964 of cirrhosis of the liver and is buried in Gilmanton.
ellauri240.html on line 219: Peyton Place was made into a movie starring Lana Turner and Hope Lange in 1957. The town of Gilmanton opposed having the movie filmed there, and eventually it was filmed in Camden, Maine, a location totally unlike any rural mill town. A television series, starring Mia Farrow and Dorothy Malone, was produced that lasted from 1964-1969. Both the film and the television show were cleaned up and did not contain the language or sexual specificity of the novel.
ellauri242.html on line 176: Kaksiosaisen Neuvostoliiton novellin historian (1965) kirjoittajat panivat merkille Perventsevin teosten riittämättömän korkean taiteellisen tason: monimutkaisten sosiaalisten ja psykologisten tilanteiden yksinkertaistettu kuvaus, ns. "tuotantogenre", konfliktin kaavamaisuus, tyylin yksitoikkoisuus. Jos yhden tai toisen ideologisen opin noudattaminen on viime kädessä henkilökohtainen asia ja ihmisoikeus, niin vakavien taiteellisten virheiden esiintyminen kirjailijan työssä on kylläxo rangaistavaa.
ellauri243.html on line 477: Dale Brown (born 2 November 1956) is an American writer and aviator known for aviation techno-thriller novels. At least thirteen of his novels have been New York Times Best Sellers.
ellauri243.html on line 481: Dale Brown‘s source of wealth comes from being a novelist. How much money is Dale Brown worth at the age of 66 and what’s his real net worth now?
ellauri243.html on line 486: It is clear that Dale Brown never expected to be as successful as he has been. This is clear by his killing off of some characters, only to be resurrected in subsequent novels. He originally only intended to write 3 novels for his publisher. Now, 24 books later, he is an accomplished author and his fans are eagerly awaiting his next novel teeming with revenants.
ellauri243.html on line 490: It seems that Brown brings his two loves together in his life as in the novels, lying and aviation.
ellauri243.html on line 499: His first novel was Flight of the Old Dog and it launched his career. The plot of the book surrounds the mission of Gen. Bradley Elliot. He is testing a unique old bomber and the mission occurs to him to destroy a soviet weapon on site in Soviet Union before it is deployed. The aircraft is called Old Dog and it has to get the team to safety.
ellauri243.html on line 510: Dale Brown is still at the forefront of publishing novels today. He most recent novel, Tiger’s Claw, was released in August 2013. The plot of this book surround President Phoenix, Arizona, who has again slashed the military budget just when China begins to test it’s new domestic missile.
ellauri243.html on line 708: Sit oli vielä tää Konstan Pylkkerön novellin silmäpasko ja puunrunkoon syyttävänä sormena juutahtanut nakki.
ellauri243.html on line 726: Disraeli wrote novels throughout his career, beginning in 1826, and published his last completed novel, Endymion, shortly before he died at the age of 76. Endymion tuli mainituxi albumissa 127, sehän oli se Keazin 50 sheidiä.
ellauri243.html on line 734: St Barbe, the journalist in " Endymion " is an intended caricature of Thackeray, and Gushy is Dickens. Vigo, a minor character of the novel, is a combination of Poole, the tailor, and George Hudson, the Sunderland railway king, as he was styled in his time. Prince Florestan is probably a sketch of Louis Napoleon in his early days in England. He is constantly presented as a child of destiny wailing for the European revolution of ´48 to give him back his throne.
ellauri244.html on line 259: Minusta tuntuu että kaikki kazovat minua siis meitä. Me olemme pikku narsisteja punaisessa veneessä, purjehdimme keltaisella merellä. Olin alkanut pitää miehestä hiljaisena, hauraana ja hienhajuisena. Silloin olen selvästi yläkynnessä. Olen tanakka, punakka ja rivakka. Inhottava julma Harri tappaa väpelösti kutuhaukea. Se on sexikästä. Hopeinen muna lipoo limaisesti alahuuliani. Harri luki innoissaan "pappa" Hemingwayn novelleja. Luki se Henry Milleriäkin. Hyvä vaan että Harri sai metrotunnelissa kylmää kyytiä. Hauen laulu katkes lyhyexi.
ellauri244.html on line 429: Lyndsay Faye is an American author. Her first novel was the Sherlockian pastiche Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson and she has been nominated for the Edgar Award for The Gods of Gotham and Jane Steele.
ellauri244.html on line 431: Dentist turned writer, Faye Kellerman is one of the new York time bestselling author. She is well known for the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series of mystery novels. Faye Kellerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri on July 31, 1952 in Jewish community. Faye grew up in Sherman Oaks, California.
ellauri244.html on line 435: Mia Faye is a romance addict who lives for the joy of entertaining her readers with her novels. She loves to hear from you via social media or via mail: miafayebooks@gmail.com ... "On His Desk" from bestselling author Mia Faye is a stand-alone second chance romance, between enemies who become lovers, with a baby surprise and a guaranteed HEA ...
ellauri244.html on line 439: Faye Madden's novels are sweet and wholesome, and through her richly crafted characters she explores all the heartache, pain, yet ultimately joyous happiness love brings, however that journey may unfold. Many of her novels explore this through the prism of a second chance romance, whilst others focus on love lost and found, or in unrequited love.
ellauri244.html on line 563: No olipa turhanpöiväistä löpinää. Älkää LÖPISKO! olisi Omppu huutanut. In 2014 the book was reissued as Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition, which added a 17-page fourth part to the story. Bach reported that he was inspired to finish the fourth part of the novella by a near-death experience which had occurred in relation to a near-fatal plane crash in August 2012. What a pity.
ellauri245.html on line 163: If there was any comfort, it was that The Leopard was selected as the year’s best crime novel by the Danish Academy of Crime Writers, topped the bestseller lists in Norway, Finland and Denmark, and for the first time Harry Hole made it onto Der Spiegel’s bestseller list in Germany, where it reached as high as No. 3. The gold and silver medalists shed full 80 liters more gore than I. Got to sharpen up.
ellauri245.html on line 292: Something about Scandinavia — its snowbound civility, its usually peaceable blend of the cosmopolitan and the isolated — makes the crime novels set there seem automatically more interesting, the way a red spray of blood stands out more starkly against fresh white powder than on a dirt road. By now many of these imports seem to share the same atmospherics: the Nordic good looks, the corruptible officials, the endless pots of coffee.
ellauri245.html on line 293: Every review of Nesbø´s work now must also, in some refracted way, be a commentary on Larsson´s wonderful and massively successful Millenium trilogy. Nesbø and Larsson share a wit, a world and a languorous command of plotlines that spiral out into new plotlines, resisting the brutal and sometimes deadening efficiency of the American crime novel.
ellauri245.html on line 371: Jeg finner det svært interessant at politiets etterforskningsarbeid ikke har vært et like populært felt i politiforskningen (se Høigård, 2005 og Valland, 2011), mens det samtidig finnes mange medierte bilder av hva det angivelig handler om. Selv om politiforskningen har vist lite oppmerksomhet til etterforskere og deres arbeid, vies det en enorm interesse for feltet fra andre ikke-akademiske områder. Det skrives flere bøker om fiktive etterforskere, og TV-serier og film sendes ofte på TV i beste sendetid. I en undersøkelse foretatt i 2012, ble kriminalromaner rangert som nummer to, etter bøker i den bestselgende sjangeren Skjønnlitterære romaner og noveller (Bokhandlerforeningen, 2012). Forfatteren og musikeren Jo Nesbø har gitt ut ti bøker om fiktiv figuren Harry Hole, en dyktig politietterforsker. Leserne følger Hole gjennom alle sakene han etterforsker, og får også innblikk i hans personlige problemer, som er kjæmpemange.
ellauri246.html on line 52: Vuonna 1913 Agnon muutti Saksaan, missä hän solmi avioliiton Esther Marxin kanssa vuonna 1920. Heille syntyi poika ja tytär. Saksassa hän tutustui juutalaiseen liikemieheen Salman Schockeniin, josta tuli hänen kustantajansa ja mesenaattinsa. Tästä lähtien kaikki hänen teoksensa julkaistiin Schockenin kustannusyhtiössä. Hän julkaisi myös useita novelleja hepreankielisessä päivälehdessä nimeltä Haaretz, joka myös oli Schockenin omaisuutta. Haaretz taitaa ilmestyä tänäkin päivänä. Saksassa Agnon kokosi yhdessä tunnetun juutalaisen ajattelijan Martin Buberin kanssa kirjan hasidien tarinoista (Die Erzählungen der Chassidim). Vuonna 1924 tulipalo tuhosi kaikki hänen käsikirjoituksensa, ja myöhemmin samana vuonna hän palasi Jerusalemiin lopullisesti ja asettui asumaan Talpiotin kaupunginosaan.
ellauri247.html on line 197: In W. M. Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, Rebecca Sharp and Miss Rose Crawley read Humphry Clinker: "Once, when Mr. Crawley asked what the young people were reading, the governess replied 'Smollett'. 'Oh, Smollett,' said Mr. Crawley, quite satisfied. 'His history is more dull, but by no means so dangerous as that of Mr. Hume. It is history you are reading?' 'Yes,' said Miss Rose; without, however, adding that it was the history of Mr. Humphry Clinker."
ellauri247.html on line 203: George Orwell praised him as "Scotland's best novelist". Taisi olla aika paskiainen miehexeen. Ai kumpiko? Kumpikin.
ellauri247.html on line 205: In Hugh Walpole's fifth novel Fortitude, the protagonist Peter refers to Peregrine Pickle as a text that inspired him to document his own memoirs.
ellauri247.html on line 265: The majority of so-called Smollett portraits are not presentments of the novelist at all, but ingeniously altered plates of George Washington.
ellauri247.html on line 271: If you chide them for lingering, they will contrive to delay you the longer. If you chastise them with sword, cane, cudgel, or horsewhip, they will either disappear entirely, and leave you without resource, or they will find means to take vengeance by overturning your carriage. The only course remaining would be to allow oneself to become the dupe of imposition by tipping the beggar an amount slightly in excess of the authorized gratification. The disadvantage under which the novelist was continually labouring was that of trying to travel as an English Milord, en grand seigneur, and yet having at every point to do it "on the cheap." He was a genuine Scrooge McDuck without the fake beak. He would rather give away a crown than be cheated of a farthing.
ellauri248.html on line 81: Tana French is the New York Times bestselling author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbor, The Secret Place, The Trespasser and The Witch Elm. A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense. [Tää kyllä kuulostaa enemmän että tyttöjen.]
ellauri248.html on line 85: Let's go through a few of these points. First, I don't think I've ever read a mystery novel with a less likable main character/narrator. Rob (Adam) Ryan is an asshole, plain and simple. Sure, he's been warped by his childhood and circumstances, but he does just about every annoying thing you could possibly imagine-- he constantly navel-gazes and feels self pity, he sleeps with then immediately plays the stereotypical male "I don't want anything to do with you now" role with his female partner (the person we were told was his best friend, and whom he would never ever sleep with), he acts like an idiot over the 17 year old villain/ temptress/ psychopath/ whatever betraying his partner, and by the end of the book he is worse off than ever. I know that lots of detectives (esp. in hard-boild stories) are unlikable, and have many personal issues, but this guy just took the cake. I wanted to take a baseball bat to his head [hear, hear!]. To make matters worse, French throws in this little gem towards the end of the novel:
ellauri248.html on line 89: Second, the book seriously dates itself with little pop culture references... from Simpsons quotes to mentions of Ricky Martin and The Simple Life. Gah. The beginning of the book felt like a very special episode of FRIENDS where Chandler, Monica and Ross solve a mystery. I'm a pretty big pop culture type of guy, but the references dropped in this novel just annoyed me.
ellauri248.html on line 91: The last part is a bit more controversial I suppose. There are two central mysteries in this book-- the first, what happened to Katy, DOES get solved in the course of the novel (the "big break" in the case is our hero realizing suddenly that the murder probably took place in a shed about 20 feet from where the body was found! Really?? No one bothered to think of that for a month?), but the deeper mystery about what happened to Rob/Adam and his friends is never resolved. Your mileage may vary about how annoying that is. Truth be told, it didn't annoy me as much as the fact that the true "villain" of the modern mystery walks without being punished in any way. How incredibly unsatisfying.
ellauri248.html on line 96: I know this was a first novel, so hopefully things will improve for her second book. I know, also, that this book won a major award and that lots of people seem to love it to death, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. [mystery, whodunit]
ellauri248.html on line 134: I am eager to lose myself in her subsequent novels, which I hope are just as riveting. [Don't get fooled by Matt, he is a review professional fishing clueless readers to his own little pond. Bet he has not even read the book.]
ellauri254.html on line 360: According to the extremely experienced Belgian slavist Emmanuel Waegemans, "who was and still is indeed considered to be the primus inter pares in Russian literature and culture from the eighteenth-century onwards", Russian thinkers themselves contributed largely to this movement: such examples would be the irrationalistic and mystical poetry and philosophy of Fyodor Tyutchev and Vladimir Solovyov or Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novels. It is remotely thinkable that these geeks could read the Western alphabet on their own.
ellauri254.html on line 369: Considered to be the 'father' (ru. paapa) of Russian Symbolism. In his book On the Causes of the Decline and on the New Trends in Contemporary Russian Literature (1893), just as the AI guru Martin Minsky, he promoted extreme individualism and deified the act of creation. Merezhkovsky was known for his poetry as well as a series of novels on good men, among whom he counted Jesus, Joan of Arc (not a man?), Dante Alighieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon and (later) Hitler.
ellauri254.html on line 373: Valeri Bryusov's novel The Fiery Angel is also well known. It tells the story of a 16th-century German scholar and his attempts to win the love of a young woman whose spiritual integrity is seriously undermined by her participation in occult practices and her dealings with unclean forceps. The novel served as the basis for Sergei Prokofiev's eponymous opera The Fiery Angel.
ellauri254.html on line 383: This pessimistic Russian symbolist writer, who referred to himself as the lard of death, was (as I already said) the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of fin de siècle literature and philosophy into Russian prose. His most famous novel, The Petty Cash Demon (1905), was an attempt to create a living portrait of the concept known in Russian as poshlost' (an idea whose meaning lies somewhere between evil, trashy and banality or kitsch). His next large prose work, A Created Legend (a trilogy consisting of Drops of Blood, Queen Ortruda, and Smoke and Ash), contained many of the same characteristics but presented a considerably more positive and hopeful view of the world. It sold much worse than Petty Cash.
ellauri254.html on line 506: When Klages (at 23) moved into a new Schwabing flat in 1895, he entered into an intense sexual relationship with his landlady's daughter, with the mother's approval; the daughter, whom Klages called 'Putti', was eleven years younger than him (12 yrs), and their relationship continued for almost two decades though remained only sexual in nature, and squeaky clean. During his years in Schwabing, Klages also became romantically involved with novelist Franziska zu Reventlow, which was further alluded to in her 1913 roman à clef Herrn Dames Aufzeichnungen. Both Stefan George and Alfred Schuler, with whom Klages closely associated, were openly homosexual men. Whilst some of Klages' outward statements on homosexuality may be seen as harsh, he maintained an intimate personal and not just academic admiration for Schuler all throughout his life. Kaikki käy, kuhan paikat pysyy kemiallisen puhtaana. Kemia ei tunne likaa.
ellauri254.html on line 511: Klages influence was widespread and amongst his great admirers were contemporaries like Jewish thinker Walter Benjamin, philosopher Ernst Cassirer, philologist Walter F. Otto and novelist Hermann Hesse.
ellauri254.html on line 816: Kaverin managed to republish Lunz's last play, Gorod Pravdy [The City of Truth], in a theatrical journal in 1989, one year after he had helped to effect the first publication in the Soviet Union of Yevgeny Zamyatin's anti-utopian novel, My [We, 1920]. The censorship board was beginning to crack, but still the Lunz collection was delayed beyond the life of the last Serapion (Kaverin) and the end of the Soviet system. Koska matka oli hauska niin, ottivat he mukaan vielä yhden kaverin.
ellauri254.html on line 829: Zamyatin is now considered one of the first Soviet dissidents. He is most famous for his highly influential and widely imitated 1921 dystopian science fiction novel We, which is set in a futuristic police state.
ellauri254.html on line 848: Suomennettuja teoksia: Kireähermoista väkeä (Rasskazy). Suom. Katja Losowitch. Helsinki: SN-kirjat, 1990 ISBN 951-615-702-5 novellikokoelma.
ellauri254.html on line 863: Tihonovin varhaiset teokset ovat romanttista vallankumousrunoutta sekä Keski-Aasiaan ja Kaukasiaan sijoittuvaa eksoottista lyriikkaa. Myöhemmin hän keskittyi ajankohtaisiin propagandistisiin ja kansainvälisiin aiheisiin. Leningradin puolustuksesta kertova runoelma Kirov s nami (”Kirov on kanssamme”, 1941) sai Stalin-palkinnon vuonna 1942. Myöhemmin Tihonov sai Stalin-palkinnon runosikermistä Gruzinskaja vesna (”Georgian kevät”, 1948) ja Dva potoka (”Kaksi virtaa”, 1951). Vuonna 1970 hänelle myönnettiin Leninin palkinto novellikokoelmasta Šest kolonn (”Kuusi pylvästä”, 1968). Trozkin palkinto (jäähakku) jäi saamatta. Vuonna 1966 hänelle myönnettiin Sosialistisen työn sankarin arvonimi.
ellauri256.html on line 69: Ei tää Lunzin poka ollut huono ollenkaan. Seuraavasta "Erämaassa" novellista piti Gorkikin. Lunzista tulee hyvä kirjailija, Maxim ennusti. Mutta pää poxahti.
ellauri256.html on line 246: Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Буга́ев, IPA: [bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ bʊˈɡajɪf] (listen)), better known by the pen name Andrei Bely or Biely (Russian: Андре́й Бе́лый, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej ˈbʲelɨj] (listen); 26 October [O.S. 14 October] 1880 – 8 January 1934), was a Russian novelist, Symbolist poet, theorist and literary critic. He was a committed anthroposophist and follower of Rudolf Steiner. His novel Petersburg (1913/1922) was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as the third-greatest masterpiece of modernist literature. The Andrei Bely Prize (Russian: Премия Андрея Белого), one of the most important prizes in Russian literature, was named after him. His poems were set to music and performed by Russian singer-songwriters.
ellauri257.html on line 69: British-born director J. Lee Thompson (“The Yellow Balloon”/”The Passage”/”King Solomon’s Mines”) helms this bloody spectacular. It’s a serviceable large-scale epic that mainly goes wrong with a mushy subplot involving a miscast Tony Curtis as a Cossack wooing a Polish noblewoman, Christine Kaufmann (they were soon to be married in real-life after his divorce from Janet Leigh). It seems to be in genre form when showing hordes of Cossack horsemen flying across the steppes to do battle. It’s based on the novel by Nikolai Gogol and is written without wit or logic by Waldo Salt (former blacklisted writer) and Karl Tunberg.
ellauri257.html on line 77: Franz Waxman’s bombastic score bursts across the lush Technicolor screen as a reminder of how much Gogol’s novel has been cheapened, Cossacks on horseback engage the Poles in battle giving the film its life pulse and the action-packed film ultimately serves as a paean to Ukrainian nationalism as it rewrites history to leave out how the violently anti-Semitic Cossacks attacked the Jewish population of Poland with a barbaric ruthlessness to dispense with their ethnic cleansing. Yul chews the scenery, but is watchable. Tony demonstrates he can’t act by giving an unbearably gooey performance.
ellauri257.html on line 99: Taras Bulba ( venäjäksi : «Тарас Бульба» ; Tarás Búl'ba ) on Nikolai Gogolin (1809-1852) romanttinen historiallinen novelli , joka sijoittuu 1600-luvun ensimmäiselle puoliskolle. Siinä on iäkäs Zaporožian kasakka Taras Bulba ja hänen poikansa Andriy ja Ostap. Pojat opiskelevat Kiovan akatemiassa ja palaavat sitten kotiin, minkä jälkeen kolme miestä lähtivät matkalle Zaporizhian Sichiin (Zaporizshin kasakkojen päämaja, joka sijaitsee Etelä- Ukrainassa ), missä he liittyvät muihin kasakoihin ja lähtevät sotaan Puolaa vastaan.
ellauri257.html on line 346: Kosmos is Gombrowicz´s most complex and ambiguous work. In it he portrays how human beings create a vision of the world, what forces, symbolic order and passion take part in this process and how the novel form organises itself in the process of creating sense. Njoopa joo.
ellauri257.html on line 419: Upon the 2009 American release (of the book, after the film of course, this is America), Michael Dirda wrote in The Washington Post that Pornografia "seems as sick, as pathologically creepy a novel as one is ever likely to read. In some ways, it resembles a rather more polymorphously perverse version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses or one of those disturbing fictions by European intellectuals that blend the philosophical with the erotic: Think of Georges Bataille's The Story of the Eye or Pierre Klossowski's Roberte Ce Soir. ... Through its sado-masochistic material and its almost Henry Jamesian analyses of human motives, Pornografia underscores Gombrowicz's lifelong philosophical obsession: the quest for authenticity." Dirda continued: "Certainly, most readers will find Pornografia perturbing, or worse: repulsive, confusing, ugly. As Milosz once said of Gombrowicz: 'He had no reverence whatsoever for literature. He derided it as a snobbish ritual, and if he practiced it, he attempted to get rid of all its accepted rules.'"
ellauri257.html on line 486: Shadows on the Hudson (original title Shotns baym Hodson ) is a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer. First serialized in The Forward, a Yiddish newspaper, it was published in book form in 1957. It was translated into English by Joseph Sherman in 1998. The book follows a group of prosperous Jewish refugees in New York City following World War II, just prior to the founding of the state of Israel.
ellauri257.html on line 491: Isaac Bashevis Singer, salanimi Varshofsky (jidd. יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער, alun perin Icek-Hersz Zynger; 21. marraskuuta 1902 Leoncin, Varsova, Kongressi-Puola, silloista Venäjää – 24. heinäkuuta 1991 Miami, Florida) oli puolanjuutalainen kirjailija. Hän sai Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinnon vuonna 1978. Singer tunnetaan ennen kaikkea novelleistaan (joita en ole lukenut, vaan sen romskuja).
ellauri257.html on line 512: She and Singer met in the Catskills, at a farm village named Mountaindale. Although in the manuscript, Alma is elusive about dates, it is known that the encounter took place in 1937. The two were refugees of what Singer’s older brother, Israel Joshua, by then already the successful novelist I.J. Singer, would soon describe as “a world that is no more.” And the two were married to other spouses. Alma and her husband, Walter Wasserman, along with their two children, Klaus and Inga, had escaped from Germany the previous year and come to America, settling in the Inwood section of Manhattan. As for Isaac — as Alma always called him — he arrived in 1935. She portrays their encounters as romantic, although she appears to have been perfectly aware of his reputation.
ellauri257.html on line 528: Singer continued to write and translate his stories and novels throughout the 1980s, until the onset of dementia in 1987. In the end, as Singer suffered from dementia, his relationships with Goran, Menashe and perhaps even Alma soured. The effects lingered unpleasantly even after his death, and as a consequence it’s hard to track the sirvienta. We don’t even know her name or nationality for certain. The idea of a Spanish-speaking maid as an integral part of Singer’s household is ripe not only for biographical scrutiny, but also for fictional development: !Ah! !Ah! !Si! !Si! !Si señor! !!Mas rapido! !Mas profundo!
ellauri257.html on line 546: Laulaja osallistui eurooppalaiseen jiddishin lehdistöön vuodesta 1916. Vuonna 1919 hän ja hänen vaimonsa Genia menivät Ukrainaan, missä hän löysi töitä The New Times -sanomalehdestä, ja häntä pidettiin yhtenä "Kiovan kirjoittajista". Sitten he muuttivat Moskovaan, missä hän julkaisi artikkeleita ja tarinoita. Kahden raskaan vuoden jälkeen, vuonna 1921, he palasivat Varsovaan. Bolshevismi ei maittanut. Vuonna 1921, kun Abraham Cahan huomasi hänen tarinansa Pearls, Singeristä tuli amerikkalaisen jiddish-sanomalehden The Forward kirjeenvaihtaja. Hänen novellinsa Liuk ilmestyi vuonna 1924, ja se valaisi bolshevikkien vallankumouksen ideologista hämmennystä. Hän kirjoitti ensimmäisen romaaninsa Teräs ja rauta, vuonna 1927. Vuonna 1934 hän muutti Yhdysvaltoihin kirjoittaakseen The Forwardiin.
ellauri257.html on line 550: Hinde Ester Singer Kreytman (31. maaliskuuta 1891 – 13. kesäkuuta 1954), englanniksi Esther Kreitman, oli jiddishinkielinen romaani- ja novellikirjailija. Hän syntyi Biłgorajissa, Veikselin osavaltiossa rabbiiniseen juutalaisperheeseen. Hänen nuoremmat veljensä Israel Joshua Singer ja Isaac Bashevis Singer tulivat myöhemmin kirjailijoiksi.
ellauri257.html on line 556: Isaac Bashevis Singerin Saatana Gorajissa sisältää viattoman tytön, joka on olosuhteiden musertunut ja joka kantaa Kreitmanin piirteitä ja erityispiirteitä. (Esther Kreitman kärsi joko epilepsiasta tai muusta fyysisestä tai henkisestä tilasta, jolla oli samankaltaisia ​​oireita, ja myöhemmin elämässä hänet diagnosoitiin vainoharhaiseksi.) IB itse sanoi, että hänen sisarensa oli malli hänen kuvitteelliselle Yentlilleen ., perinteistä taustaa oleva nainen, joka haluaa opiskella juutalaisia ​​tekstejä. Hän piti Esther Kreitmania "parhaana jiddish-naiskirjailijana", jonka hän tiesi, mutta hänen kanssaan oli vaikea tulla toimeen. "Kuka voi elää tulivuoren kanssa?" (Hadda, s. 137). Ja hän omisti osan kerätyistä novelleistaan ​​The Seance (New York, 1968) "Rakkaan sisareni muistolle".
ellauri258.html on line 68: Miten voi olla niin vaikeaa tehdä kauhumestari Stephen Kingin teoksista hyviä elokuvia? Etenkin Kingin 1970–1980-luvun ”kultakauden” kirjoista tai novelleista? Ne ovat jo valmiiksi elokuvamaisia. Yksinkertaisia mutta vetäviä, jännittäviä, pelottavia ja dramaattisia tarinoita.
ellauri258.html on line 556: Steve Bermanin novelli "Peikko vuorella tytön kanssa" sisältää japsujen Baba Jaga vastineen Yamauban. Lafcadio Hearn,joka kirjoittaa ensisijaisesti länsimaiselle yleisölle, kertoo tarinan seuraavasti:
ellauri262.html on line 194: In later life, Lewis corresponded with Joy Davidman Gresham, an American writer of Jewish background, a former Communist, and a convert from atheism to Christianity. She was separated from her alcoholic and abusive husband, novelist William L. Gresham, and came to England with her two sons, David and Douglas.
ellauri262.html on line 204: In addition to his scholarly work, Lewis wrote several popular novels, including the science fiction Space Trilogy for adults and the Narnia fantasies for children. Most deal implicitly with Christian themes such as sin, humanity's fall from grace, and redemption.
ellauri262.html on line 208: The second novel, Perelandra, depicts a new Garden of Eden on the planet Venus, a new Adam and Eve, and a new "serpent figure" to tempt Eve. The story can be seen as an account of what might have happened if the terrestrial Adam had defeated the serpent and avoided the Fall of Man, with Ransom intervening in the novel to "ransom" the new Adam and Eve from the deceptions of the enemy. The third novel, That Hideous Strength, develops the theme of nihilistic science threatening traditional human values, embodied in Arthurian legend.
ellauri262.html on line 210: The Chronicles of Narnia, considered a classic of children's literature, is a series of seven fantasy novels. Written between 1949 and 1954 and illustrated by Pauline Baynes, the series is Lewis's most popular work, having sold over 100 million copies in 41 languages (Kelly 2006) (Guthmann 2005). It has been adapted several times, complete or in part, for radio, television, stage and cinema.
ellauri262.html on line 213: Lewis's last novel, Till We Have Faeces, a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, was published in 1956. Although Lewis called it "far and away my best book," it was not as well-reviewed as his previous work. It is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche from the unusual perspective of Psyche's sister Peg. Mere Christianity was voted best book of the 20th century by Christianity Today in 2000.
ellauri262.html on line 300: The presence of sexuality in The Lord of the Rings, a bestselling fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, has been debated, as it is somewhat unobtrusive. However, love and marriage appear in the form of the warm relationship between the hobbits Sam Gamgee and Rosie Cotton; the unreturned feelings of Éowyn for Aragorn, followed by her falling in love with Faramir, and marrying him; and Aragorn's love for Arwen, described in an appendix rather than in the main text, as "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen". Multiple scholars have noted the symbolism of the monstrous female spider Shelob. Interest has been concentrated, too, on the officer-batman-inspired same-sex relationship of Frodo and his gardener Sam as they travel together on the dangerous quest to destroy the Ring. Scholars and commentators have interpreted the relationship in different ways, from close but not necessarily homosexual to plainly homoerotic, or as an idealised heroic friendship.
ellauri262.html on line 302: The author of the bestselling fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien, was orphaned as a boy, his father dying in South Africa and his mother in England a few years later. He was brought up by his guardian, a Catholic priest, Father Francis Xavier Morgan, and educated at male-only grammar schools and then Exeter College, Oxford, which at that time had only male students. He joined the British Army's Lancashire Fusiliers and saw the horror of trench warfare, with life as an officer made more bearable by the support of a male batman or servant. After the war he became a professor of English Language at the University of Leeds, and then at the University of Oxford, where he taught at Pembroke College. At Oxford, he created an all-male literary group with another Oxford professor of English, C. S. Lewis, called the Inklings.
ellauri262.html on line 306: Commentators have remarked on the apparent lack of sexuality in The Lord of the Rings; the feminist and queer theory scholar Valerie Rohy notes the female novelist A. S. Byatt's remark that "part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful"; the Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey wrote that "there is not enough awareness of sexuality" in the work; and the novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones stated that "above all, sexuality [is] what is absent from the [work's] vision". Rohy comments that it is easy to see why they might say this; in the epic tradition, Tolkien "abandons courtship when battle looms, apparently sublimating sexuality to the greater quest". She accepts that there are three romances leading to weddings in the tale, those of Aragorn and Arwen, Éowyn and Faramir, and Sam and Rosie, but points out that their love stories are mainly external to the main narrative about the Ring, and that their beginnings are basically not shown: they simply appear as marriages.
ellauri262.html on line 382: Lordi Peter on Denverin herttuan nuorempi veli ja hänet kuvataan romaaneissa stereotyyppisenä varakkaana englantilaisena aristokraattina, jonka harrastuksiin kuuluu inkunaabeleiden keräily. Romaaneissa eletään maailmansotien välistä aikaa, jolloin Wimsey on noin 40-vuotias. Hänen valokuvaamista harrastava kamaripalvelijansa ja entinen sotakaverinsa Bunter toimii hänen apunaan rikosten selvittämisessä. Wimseytä auttaa myös usein hänen ystävänsä Charles Parker Scotland Yardista. Edmund Wilson expressed his distaste for Wimsey in his criticism of The Nine Tailors: "There was also a dreadful stock English nobleman of the casual and debonair kind, with the embarrassing name of Lord Peter Wimsey, and, although he was the focal character in the novel ... I had to skip a good deal of him, too." Tämä kuvitteellinen henkilö on tynkä.
ellauri262.html on line 390: The poet W. H. Auden and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein were notable critics of her novels. A savage attack on Sayers's writing ability came from the American critic Edmund Wilson, in a well-known 1945 article in The New Yorker called "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" He briefly writes about her novel The Nine Tailors, saying "I declare that it seems to me one of the dullest books I have ever encountered in any field." Wilson continues "I had often heard people say that Dorothy Sayers wrote well ... but, really, she does not write very well: it is simply that she is more consciously literary than most of the other detective-story writers and that she thus attracts attention in a field which is mostly on a sub-literary level."
ellauri262.html on line 392: The academic critic Q. D. Leavis criticises Sayers in more specific terms in a review of Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon, published in the critical journal Scrutiny, saying her fiction is "popular and romantic while pretending to realism." Leavis argues that Sayers presents academic life as "sound and sincere because it is scholarly," a place of "invulnerable standards of taste charging the charmed atmosphere".[46] But, Leavis says, this is unrealistic: "If such a world ever existed, and I should be surprised to hear as much, it does no longer, and to give substance to a lie or to perpetuate a dead myth is to do no one any service really." Leavis comments that "only best-seller novelists could have such illusions about human nature."
ellauri262.html on line 394: The critic Sean Latham has defended Sayers, arguing that Wilson and Leavis simply objected to a detective story writer having pretensions beyond what they saw as her role of popular culture "hack". Latham says that, in their eyes, "Sayers' primary crime lay in her attempt to transform the detective novel into something other than an ephemeral bit of popular culture".
ellauri262.html on line 422: After publishing her first two detective novels, Sayers married Captain Oswald Atherton "Mac" Fleming, a Scottish journalist whose professional name was "Atherton Fleming". The wedding took place on 13 April 1926 (Dot was 33 and Mac 45) at Holborn Register Office, London. Fleming was divorced with two daughters.
ellauri262.html on line 424: Fleming died on 9 June 1950, at Sunnyside Cottage (now 24 Newland Street), Witham, Essex, after a decade of severe illnesses. Sayers died suddenly of a coronary thrombosis on 17 December 1957 at the same little flat, aged 64. Sayers was a friend of C. S. Lewis and several of the other Inklings. On some occasions Sayers joined Lewis at meetings of the Socratic Club. Lewis said he read The Man Born to Be King every Easter, but he said he was unable to appreciate detective stories. J. R. R. Tolkien read some of the Wimsey novels but scorned the later ones, such as Gaudy Night. Se oli varmaan liian nenäkäs.
ellauri262.html on line 429: Sayers was greatly influenced by G. K. Chesterton, fellow detective fiction novelist, essayist, critic, among other things, commenting that, "I think, in some ways, G.K.’s books have become more a part of my mental make-up than those of any writer you could name.” n 2022, Sayers was officially added to the Episcopal Church liturgical calendar with a feast day on 17 December.
ellauri262.html on line 521: Ruuvinauha (Screwtape) esiintyy kuvitteellisena (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_(arts)) demonina (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon) kirjassa Teippikirjaimet (The Screwtape Letters) (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwtape_Letters) (1942) ja sen jatko- novellissa Ruuvinauha ehdottaa paahtoleipää (Screwtape Proposes a Toast 1959), jotka molemmat on kirjoittanut kristitty (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity) kirjailija CS Lewis (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis) . Ruuvinauha (Screwtape) on myös James Forsythin Kirjeiden (alunperin Rakas Matomezä (Dear Wormwood), 1961) lavasovituksen nimi. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatrical_adaptation)
ellauri263.html on line 614: is a 1990 novel written as a collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Se taisi olla ensimmäinen lukemani Pratchett. Käytin Crowleyta salasanana joskus 2000-luvun alussa. Alzheimeriin sittemmin kuollut länkkärihattuinen Pratchett antoi juutalaisen Neil Gaimanin kanssa kirjoittamassaan saatanallisessa niteessä Good Omens pirulle nimexi Crowley.
ellauri263.html on line 616: The book is a comedy about the birth of the son of Satan and the coming of the End Times. There are attempts by the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley to sabotage the coming of the end times, having grown accustomed to their comfortable surroundings in England. One subplot features a mixup at the small country hospital on the day of birth and the growth of the Antichrist, Adam, who grows up with the wrong family, in the wrong country village. Another subplot concerns the summoning of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, each a big personality in their own right. With Armageddon averted, Crowley and Aziraphale muse that this was God's plan all along and speculate that the real apocalyptic conflict will be between humanity and the combined forces of Heaven and Hell. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 68 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
ellauri263.html on line 620: Aleister Crowley (/ˈælɪstər ˈkroʊli/; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) who was an English occultist, philosopher, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, he published widely over the course of his miserable life.
ellauri263.html on line 694: Kerista's polyamorous sexual practice was influenced by Robert A. Heinlein's (1907-88) science-fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), in which the Martian-raised human Michael Valentine Smith founded The Church of All Worlds, preached sexual freedom and the truth of all religions, and is martyred by narrow-minded people who are not ready for freedom. Sukua myös Diskordianismille. Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabuntur.
ellauri267.html on line 56: Walter Herman Wager (September 4, 1924 - July 11, 2004) was an American novelist. Walter Wager grew up in the East Tremont section of The Bronx, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants; his father, Max, was a doctor, and his mother, Jessie, was a nurse. But was he an emigrant or an immigrant? Depends how rich his parents were. Some sources say emigrant, others immigrant.

Kansakoulun jälkeen Larni toimi puutarha-apulaisena, liikemiehenä ja kävi myös osuuskauppakoulun. Vuosina 1937–1943 hän toimi helsinkiläisen osuusliike Elannon julkaiseman Elanto-lehden toimittajana ja sen jälkeen vuoteen 1951 saakka Elannon osastopäällikkönä ja Elanto-lehden päätoimittajana. Larni asui Yhdysvalloissa vuosina 1948–1949 ja 1951–1954 työskennellen amerikansuomalaisen Keskusosuuskunnan kustannusliikkeen palveluksessa toimittajana. Suomeen palattuaan Larni toimi vuosina 1955–1965 Me Kuluttajat -lehden toimittajana sekä vuosina 1956–1959 Kulutusosuuskuntien Keskusliiton osastopäällikkönä.

Q: I have a question regarding the descendants of Edom. In Joel Rosenberg’s novel The Ezekiel Option, some Iranians claim that they are descended from the Edomites and that Iran is in danger of God’s judgment upon the edomites. Are some Iranians descended from Edom? And if so, could Obadiahs prophecy against Edom be a warning for Iran? Thanks for your ministry and God bless.
xxx/ellauri116.html on line 266: Conceived as a novel of eroticism, this short work is centered on the quest for worldly happiness and the individual's prospects of attaining it. The medium of the quest is sensory and sexual fulfillment, and Vargas Llosa's characters conduct their lives assuming that this fulfillment is both the cause and the effect of their happiness. As in other erotic texts, the characters' responses and relationships are fueled exclusively by sensual and sexual stimulation...
xxx/ellauri116.html on line 268: The four characters of the novel are sketchily described, and their present circumstances are limited to the details that permit the development of the action of the novel. Since the story takes place in a few day's time, the characters remain largely devoid of a past.
xxx/ellauri116.html on line 270: Don Rigoberto is, by far, the novel's most interesting character, not because he is especially complex but because Vargas Llosa relishes in his quirks and describes them in titillating detail, creating what Anthony Burgess calls "the pornography of hygiene."
xxx/ellauri116.html on line 274: While the novel takes place exclusively within the confines of the family home in Lima, it is clear that they enjoy a seemingly normal relationship with the outside world: business associates, friends, and school. Don Rigoberto, the head of the household, is the manager of an insurance company. A widower, he marries Lucrecia, a forty-year-old divorcee. Dona Lucrecia enjoys the fruits of her privileged lifestyle; during the day she directs the household staff, goes shopping, plays bridge, and attends to the care of Don Rigoberto's son, the angelic looking Alfonso, a prepubescent boy of indeterminate age.
xxx/ellauri116.html on line 311: His novels include comedies, murder mysteries, historical novels, and political thrillers. And pornography.
xxx/ellauri116.html on line 337: Luis Vargas Llosan ekoja töitä olivat novellit Los Jefes ja Los Cachorros. Löysin ne pääkirjaston kierrätyxestä alkukielellä. Juonipaljastuxia ei löytynyt suomexi, joten tässä ruozixi:
xxx/ellauri116.html on line 339: Cheferna är en novellbok av den peruanska författaren Mario Vargas Llosa, utgiven 1959. Det är en samling av sex noveller som leds av den som ger sitt namn till verket. Det var den första boken som publicerades av författaren, som då var 23 år gammal; Det är samtidigt hans enda novellbok. Han tilldelades Leopoldo Alas-priset (1958) i Spanien. Med detta arbete började berättelsen om Vargas Llosa formellt, som 2010 tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur.
xxx/ellauri116.html on line 393: Mikäs se nyt oli? Ainiin se 1700-luvun romaani, mulla taitaa olla se, vaikken ole lukenut. A French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in four volumes by Durand Neveu from March 23, 1782. It is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two narcissistic rivals (and ex-lovers) who use seduction as a weapon to socially control and exploit others, all the while enjoying their cruel games and boasting about their talent for manipulation. It has been seen as depicting the corruption and depravity of the French nobility shortly before the French Revolution, and thereby attacking the Ancien Régime. The book has also been described as merely a story about two amoral people.
xxx/ellauri120.html on line 35: Novelist Bulwer-Lytton was a friend and contemporary of Charles Dickens and was one of the pioneers of the historical novel, exemplified by his most popular work, The Last Days of Pompeii. He is best remembered today for the opening line to the novel Paul Clifford, which begins "It was a dark and stormy night..." and is considered by some to be the worst opening sentence in the English language. However, Bulwer-Lytton is also responsible for well-known sayings such as "The penis mightier than the sword" from his play Richelieu. Despite being a very popular author with 19th-century readers, few people today are even aware of his prodigious body of literature spanning many genres. In the 21st century he is known best as the namesake for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC), sponsored annually by the English Department at San Jose State University, which challenges entrants "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels", and the township of Lytton, or Camchin until the British nosey parkers came, saw and beat the copper-colored nlaka'pamuxes. Now their village got burned to ashes thanx to the industrial revolution.
xxx/ellauri120.html on line 46: Lytton was on the route of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in 1858. The same year, Lytton was named after Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the British Colonial Secretary and a novelist. For many years Lytton was a stop on major transportation routes, namely, the River Trail from 1858, Cariboo Wagon Road in 1862, the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s, the Cariboo Highway in the 1920s, and the Trans Canada Highway in the 1950s. However, it has become much less important since the construction of the Coquihalla Highway in 1987 which uses a more direct route to the BC Interior.
xxx/ellauri120.html on line 404: Tapiovaara ehti muutamassa vuodessa ohjata viisi elokuvaa, joista viimeinen jäi häneltä kesken. Tunnetuin hänen elokuvistaan on Varastettu kuolema. Se perustuu Runar Schildtin novelliin ”Lihamylly” ja kuvaa vastarintatoimintaa tsaarinaikaisen Venäjän sortovaltaa vastaan vuoden 1905 Suomessa. Monet elokuvan tyylittelevät otokset ovat nousseet suomalaisen elokuvahistorian klassikoiksi. Kokeilevan ranskalaisen elokuvan vaikutteet ovat ilmeiset. Tapiovaara oli julkivasemmistolainen, mikä oli 1930-luvulla harvinaista. Hän osallistui aktiivisesti muun muassa kulttuurijärjestö Kiilan toimintaan.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 278: Atwood married Jim Polk, an American writer, in 1968, but later divorced in 1973. She formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson soon afterward and moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, where their daughter, Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in 1976. Graeme kuoli dementtinä 2019.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 308: In the early 70s, Atwood added considerably to her work as a teacher and writer by editing manuscripts for the cutting-edge nationalist publisher The House of Anansi. By then, her marriage to Polk was over (Sullivan is vague about why, offering mainly generalities about the difficulty of staying together in that morally freewheeling era. Fact is, Jim Polk was not enough of a handyman for manly Margaret.) In 1972, Atwood met Gibson, a novelist and cultural activist whose own marriage was crumbling. The two began an affair, meeting at first clandestinely in the basement office of Toronto’s Longhouse Bookshop, but soon living together—for several years on a working farm north of the city.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 311: Graeme Gibson, long-time partner to author Margaret Atwood and father of their only child, Jess, died in London, England earlier this week while he was accompanying Ms Atwood on an extensive book tour to promote her latest novel, The Testaments, a sequel to the massively successful The Handmaid’s Tail. He was 84 and his death was both expected and sudden.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 312: He too was an author of novels, none of which ever came close to having the kind of success Ms Atwood has always enjoyed, but Gibson himself would have said his greatest success was the support he gave his partner during one of the most amazing careers any writer has ever had, in Canada or in any country. His support was unstinting and inspiring, and allied to it was a conviction that Atwood’s greatness demanded that kind of commitment.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 314: The books he wrote were never “hot”, but they were never read, so no harm done. His novels were well crafted but never quite took off — what the French call connerie pure. In 1996, he decided to stop writing novels altogether, and concentrate on childcare and cooking & laughing at Peggy's jokes. Kinda ironic given they didnt ever marry tho. It’s as if he made sure to stick around long enough for her new sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale – The Testaments – to be published. Considerate.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 316: But back to young Peggy. As a result of the governor's award, The Edible Woman was published. Atwood began to enjoy a growing reputation; nonetheless, while her own career took off, she still devoted considerable amounts of time to a small radical publishing house, Anansi, in which her first and only husband was deeply involved. Over this period, Atwood and Jim Polk drifted apart, and Atwood began a relationship with the novelist Graeme Gibson. Together with Graeme's two teenage sons, Matt and Grae, they went off to a farm in a small agricultural community in 1973 in Alliston.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 318: Atwood and Gibson remain an utterly devoted couple - when a female US novelist famously remarked that "every woman writer should be married to Graeme Gibson", Atwood cheerfully put the compliment on a T-shirt.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 323: James "Jim" Polk was the long time editorial director of House of Anansi Press and edited two books by Charles Taylor, as well as work by Margaret Atwood, George Grant, Northrop Frye, and many others. With a literature PhD (which Peggy never finished) he has taught at Harvard, Idaho, Ryerson and Alberta, and has written a comic novel, a stage comedy about Canadian publishing, articles, short stories, and criticism about Canadian writers and writing. As an advisor at the Ontario Ministry of Culture, he worked on grants for theatre and books, developed a tax credit for publishers and remodelled the Trillium Book Prize to include Franco Ontarian writing. He lives in Toronto and, trained as a pianist, still practices daily, playing classics and show-tunes in seclusion.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 336: Atwood has not won the Nobel (this was written 1998), at least not yet. But the petite 58-year-old novelist (Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace) and poet (Power Politics, Morning in the Burned House) has become internationally famous on a scale no Canadian writer of serious literature ever has. She is, in her own words, “one of the few literary writers who has gotten lucky”—which means she is read not just by intellectuals, but by hairdressers, chartered accountants and farmers. Easy reading, straightforward sentiments.
xxx/ellauri121.html on line 533: Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (21. lokakuuta 1929 Berkeley, Kalifornia – 22. tammikuuta 2018 Portland, Oregon) oli yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija. Hän kirjoitti romaaneja, novelleja, runoutta, lastenkirjoja ja esseitä, eritoten fantasia- ja tieteiskirjallisuutta. Tuotannossaan Le Guin käsitteli muun muassa taolaisuutta, anarkismia, feminismiä, anarkofeminismiä, sekä muita yhteiskunnallisia ja psykologisia teemoja. Le Guin on nimetty yhdeksi tieteiskirjallisuuden Grand Mastereista. Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin herself said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 818: A frighteningly prophetic novel, 'Fahrenheit 451' is set in a dystopian future where there are no books, just smart phones. For the protagonist, Montag, it all seems normal -- until the day he gets a glimpse of the past. With a riveting plot and solid characters, the book draws readers into its imagined world. Totally outdayed. Books are being yurned inyo lampshades as we speak. Who wants them anyway, TLDR.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 843: moves from low wage job after job. Throughout the novel,
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 862: 'Lord of the Flies' became a bestseller and required reading in grade schools and universities back in the '60s. The novel recounts the journey of a group of small boys stranded on a coral island. Once troubles arise, brutal portraits of human nature start to emerge.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 878: Wilde's philosophical novel was originally published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, but as editors feared the story was improper, they deleted five hundred words before its publication. They were just as uninteresting as the rest of this extra narcissistic gay snobbery.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 879: In response, Wilde revised and expanded the magazine edition, publishing it as a novel.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 890: Kahneman used decades of psychology research to construct 'Thinking Fast and Slow,' which won a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Fuck it did, novels can win literature prices at best. Anyway, economic Nobels are a joke compared to real Nobel prizes, just an ad for laissez faire capitalism.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 892: The novel challenges readers to consider how they think, including monitoring their reactions, judgments, and choices. Daniel Kahnemann is a sleazy customer whose antics have been taken under the lupe elsewhere.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 896: Umberto Eco's first novel quickly became an international sensation, selling 50 million copies worldwide.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 922: Tätä kirjaa en ole jaxanut lukea useista yrityxistä huolimatta, se on niin tympäisevä. Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, beats me why. Heller was born on May 1, 1923, in Coney Island in Brooklyn, son of poor Jewish parents, Lena and Isaac Donald Heller, from Russia. Heller said that the novel had been influenced by Svejk, Céline, Waugh and Nabokov. Hilariously funny, the novel’s insights are also deadly serious. It is a debris of sour jokes.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 924: Alongside works by Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon, Catch-22 opened the floodgates for a wave of crazy American fiction. The reviews of the book range from very positive to very negative. Although the novel won no awards upon release, it has remained in print and is seen as one of the most significant American novels of the 20th century. The novel examines the absurdity of war and military life through the experiences of Yossarian and his cohorts, who attempt to maintain their sanity while fulfilling their service requirements so that they may return home.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 954: Though a graphic novel, 'Watchmen' is considered by many to be the greatest graphic novel in history. It is more graphic than all the rest, faktiskt.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 956: Often considered the gateway title to other graphic novels like 'V for Vendetta' and 'Batman: The Dark Knight Returns,' the series dissects the entire concept of the superhero in a way that sticks with readers for years. Fucking superheroes, why the heck do Americans get so hot about them? Well it's all part of the American dream.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 1090: kirjoituksissa, kuten novellissa ”Joulumuisto” (1956). Truman oli hukkapätkä, lyhempi kuin Marilyn.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 1092: Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons in New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 30, 1924. His father, Arch Persons, was a well-educated ne'er-do-well from a prominent Alabama family, and his mother, Lillie Mae Faulk, was a pretty and ambitious young woman so anxious to escape the confines of small-town Alabama that she married Arch in her late teens. Capote's early childhood with Arch and Lillie Mae was marked by neglect and painful insecurity that left him with a lifelong fear of abandonment. His life gained some stability in 1930 when, at age six, he was put in the care of four elderly, unmarried cousins in Monroeville, Monroe County. He lived there full-time for three years and made extended visits throughout the decade. Capote was most influenced by his cousin Sook, who adored him and whom he celebrated in his writings. He also forged what would become a lifelong friendship with next-door neighbor Nelle Harper Lee, who later won the Pulitzer Prize for her book, To Kill a Mockingbird. Capote appears in the novel as the character Dill.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 1139: nonfiction novel), joka on proosan keinoin kerrottua
xxx/ellauri123.html on line 411: Dostojevskin pikkunovellin ”NAURETAVAN IHMISEN UNI”. Saksankielisenä vain 48 sivua taskukirjana. Se kosketti minua heti syvästi, itkin. Luin tämän unikertomuksen melkein joka vuosi uudestaan ja aina se kosketti minua, itkin taas. Naurettava ihminen löytää toisen samankaltaisen veljen ja ehkä siksi uskon ymmärtäväni tämän tarinan myös sydämellä. Annoin tarinan luettavaksi ystävilleni, ei kukaan huomannut tarinassa mitään erikoista. He eivät kuitenkaan haukkuneet tarinaa, koska olivat sitä mieltä, että Dostojevski on suuri kirjailija, jota ei saa kritisoida negatiivisesti. Muuten, tästä tulee mieleen, että ennen kun luette eteenpäin tätä lyhyttä kirjoitusta, lukekaa ensiksi tämä Dostojevskin pikkunovelli. Suomessa löydätte sen kirjasta ”Valkeat yöt”, viimeisenä tarinana. Löydätte sen melko varmasti Sysmän kirjastosta.
xxx/ellauri123.html on line 695: Vladimir Vladimirovitš Nabokov (ven. Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков; 22. huhtikuuta (J: 10 huhtikuuta) 1899 Pietari, Venäjän keisarikunta – 2. heinäkuuta 1977 Montreux, Sveitsi) oli venäläis-yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija, kirjallisuuskriitikko ja perhostutkija. Hän kirjoitti urallaan useita romaaneja, runokokoelmia, novelleja sekä omaelämäkerran ja kirjallisuuskritiikkejä. Nabokovin tunnetuin teos on Lolita.
xxx/ellauri123.html on line 745: Evidence is presented that the author of Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, was himself consciously a pedophile who acted out his desires vicariously through his writing. Drawing upon his literary works and biography, the manifest and genetic origins of Nabokov´s pedophilia are traced back to an unresolved oedipal conflict complicated by childhood sexual abuse. Humbert Humbert, the protagonist in the novel Lolita, is the classic literary portrayal of a pedophile. Evidence is presented that the author of Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, was himself consciously a pedophile who acted out his desires vicariously through his writing. Drawing upon his literary works and biography, the manifest and genetic origins of Nabokov´s pedophilia are traced back to an unresolved oedipal conflict complicated by childhood sexual abuse. The raw power of Lolita derives from the abreactive discharge of a libidinal cathexis denied any other mode of expression.
xxx/ellauri123.html on line 758: Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a French middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with an American 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he sexually molests (fucks) after he becomes her stepfather. "Lolita" is his private nickname for Dolores.
xxx/ellauri123.html on line 762: The impassioned Humbert constantly searches for discreet forms of fulfilling his sexual urges, usually via the smallest physical contact with Dolores. When Dolores is sent to summer camp, Humbert receives a letter from Charlotte, who confesses her love for him and gives him an ultimatum – he is to either marry her or move out immediately. Initially terrified, Humbert then begins to see the charm in the situation of being Dolores' stepfather, and so marries Charlotte for instrumental reasons (päästäxeen salaa työntämään Lolan piccu tacoon isoa munakoisoa). Charlotte later discovers Humbert's diary, in which she learns of his desire for her daughter and the disgust Charlotte arouses in him. Shocked and humiliated, Charlotte decides to flee with Dolores and writes letters addressed to her friends warning them of Humbert. Disbelieving Humbert´s false assurance that the diary is a sketch for a future novel, Charlotte runs out of the house to send the letters but is killed by a swerving car. Humbert destroys the letters and retrieves Dolores from camp, claiming that her mother has fallen seriously ill and has been hospitalized. He then takes her to a high-end hotel that Charlotte had earlier recommended. Humbert knows he will feel guilty if he consciously rapes Dolores, and so tricks her into taking a sedative by saying it is a vitamin. As he waits for the pill to take effect, he wanders through the hotel and meets a mysterious man who seems to be aware of Humbert´s plan for Dolores. Humbert excuses himself from the conversation and returns to the hotel room. There, he discovers that he had been fobbed with a milder drug, as Dolores is merely drowsy and wakes up frequently, drifting in and out of sleep. He dares not touch her that night. In the morning, Dolores reveals to Humbert that she actually has already lost her virginity, having engaged in sexual activity with an older boy at a different camp a year ago. He immediately begins sexually abusing (fucking) her. And they lived happily ever after.
xxx/ellauri123.html on line 766: Lolita is frequently described as an "erotic novel", not only by some critics but also in a standard reference work on literature Facts on File: Companion to the American Short Story. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia called Lolita "an experiment in combining an erotic novel with an instructive novel of bourgeois bad manners."
xxx/ellauri123.html on line 767: But as Lance Olsen writes: "The first 13 chapters of the text, culminating with the oft-cited scene of Lo unwittingly stretching her legs across Humbert's excited lap ... are the only chapters suggestive of the erotic." Nabokov himself observes in the novel´s afterword that a few readers were "misled by the opening of the book ... into assuming this was going to be a lewd book ... expecting the rising succession of erotic scenes; when these stopped, the readers stopped, too, and felt bored." Preee-cisely!
xxx/ellauri124.html on line 206: Quora amateur Corwyn B tries to name the best novel ever, and fails. To list a few that I would be okay reading almost any time:
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 138: “Nabokov talvez nem precisasse de Sally Horner para criar sua paradigmática ninfeta, pois já localizaram referências à sexualidade precoce de meninas pré-púberes em pelo menos seis de suas criações ficcionais, entre contos, novelas e romances.” Brian Boyd revela que Vladimir Nabokov fez ampla pesquisa sobre a sexualidade de pessoas do sexo feminino “de 6 a 19 anos”. Não deixou nem mesmo de pesquisar as gírias dos jovens.
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 168: When she was 14 years old, she was cast in the role of Dolores "Lolita" Haze in Stanley Kubrick's film Lolita (1962), against James Mason, then aged 53. Nabokov, the book's author, described her as the "perfect nymphet". She was chosen for the role partly because the film makers had to alter the age of the character to an older adolescent rather than the 12-year-old child Lolita in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita. Although Kubrick's film altered the story so as not to be in violation of the Hollywood Production Code, it was still one of the more controversial films of the day.
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 437: his novel “When She Was Good,” published the previous year, was based on her.) In
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 449: novel. He spent multiple sessions berating Kleinschmidt for this “psychoanalytic
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 453: on the writer Bernard Malamud, but Henry Roth is a major influence, as becomes clear in Exit Ghost. It is known that Philip Roth has read the later novels of
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 455: is that in his novels published after his death he reveals that he had an
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 458: Sleep, his only major novel. In Exit Ghost it is revealed that Lonoff also had an
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 464: Henry Roth (February 8, 1906 – October 13, 1995) was an American novelist and short story
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 465: writer who found success later in life after his 1934 novel Call It Sleep was
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 471: Side, in the slums where his classic novel Call It Sleep is set. In 1914, the
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 480: classic novel Call It Sleep is set. In 1914, the family moved to Harlem. Roth
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 485: With Walton's support, he began Call It Sleep in about 1930, completed the novel in the spring of 1934, and it was published in December 1934, to mostly good reviews. Yet the New York Herald Tribune's book critic Lewis Gannett foresaw that the book would not prove popular with its bleak depiction of New York's Lower East Side, but wrote readers would "remember it and talk about it and watch excitedly" for Roth's next book. Call It Sleep sold slowly and poorly, and after it was out-of-print, critics writing in magazines such as Commentary and Partisan Review kept praising it, and asking for it to be reprinted. After being republished in hardback in 1960 and paperback in 1964, with more than 1,000,000 copies sold, and many weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, the novel was hailed as an overlooked Depression-era masterpiece and classic novel of immigration. Today, it is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Jewish American literature. With Walton's support, he began Call It Sleep in about 1930, completed the novel in the spring of 1934, and it was published in December 1934, to mostly good reviews. Yet the New York Herald Tribune's book critic Lewis Gannett foresaw that the book would not prove popular with its bleak depiction of New York's Lower East Side, but wrote readers would "remember it and talk about it and watch excitedly" for Roth's next book. Call It Sleep sold slowly and poorly, and after it was out-of-print, critics writing in magazines such as Commentary and Partisan Review kept praising it, and asking for it to be reprinted.[ After being republished in hardback in 1960 and paperback in 1964, with more than 1,000,000 copies sold, and many weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, the novel was hailed as an overlooked Depression-era masterpiece and classic novel of immigration. Today, it is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Jewish American literature. After Muriel's death in 1990, Roth moved into a ramshackle former funeral parlor and occupied himself with revising the final volumes of his monumental work, Mercy of a Rude Stream. It has been alleged that the incestuous relationships between the protagonist, a sister, and a cousin in Mercy of a Rude Stream are based on Roth's life. Roth's own sister denied that such events occurred. Roth attributed his massive writer's block to personal problems such as depression, and to political conflicts, including his disillusion with Communism. At other times he cited his early break with Judaism and his obsessive sexual preoccupations as probable causes. Roth died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States in 1995. The character E. I. Lonoff in Philip Roth's Zuckerman novels (The Ghost Writer and Exit Ghost in this case), is a composite of Roth, Bernard Malamud and fictional elements.
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 750: Courtney Michelle Harrison was born on July 9, 1964, at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, California, the first child of psychotherapist Linda Carroll (née Risi) and Hank Harrison, a publisher and road manager for the Grateful Dead. Her parents met at a party held for Dizzy Gillespie in 1963. Her mother, who was adopted at birth and raised by an Italian-American family in San Francisco, was the biological daughter of novelist Paula Fox; Love's maternal great-grandmother was screenwriter Elsie Fox. Phil Lesh, the founding bassist of the Grateful Dead, is Love's godfather. According to Love, she was named after Courtney Farrell, the protagonist of Pamela Moore's 1956 novel Chocolates for Breakfast. Love is of Cuban, English, German, Irish, and Welsh descent.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 112: When Nabokov died in 1977, The New York Times hailed him as “a giant in the world of literature.” Two of his novels, “Lolita” and “Pale Fire,” landed on the Modern Library’s 1998 list of the best English novels of the 20th century. His legions of fans regard Nabokov’s failure to win a Nobel Prize as one of the great literary travesties of the 20th century.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 114: Only now, 40 years after his death, are some critics daring to suggest that many of his 18 novels are mediocre at best and that his masterpiece, “Lolita,” is a gruesome celebration of pedophile rape. Moreover the cherubic writer known to us from famous Life magazine photo shoots, jauntily brandishing his butterfly net in the Tetons or the Alps, proves to be a nasty piece of work. Distasteful people can do wonderful work — Pablo Picasso was no walk in the park — but their art doesn’t excuse their obnoxious behavior.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 116: There are currently five scholarly journals devoted to Nabokov studies. His allusive style and trilingual (English, French, Russian) wordplay are catnip for academics, who endlessly parse challenging texts like “Pale Fire” — a novel in verse, followed by obscurantist commentary — finding new apercus tailor-made for small-journal publication. Nabokov’s apotheosis in academe is quite ironical, because he and his close friend, the literary critic Edmund Wilson, shared an icy disdain for the ivory tower. They viewed universities as ATMs, handy because there were so many of them, and because they were flush with cash. Nabokov, who arrived in the United States penniless in 1940, had to rely on teaching assignments at Wellesley and Cornell to feed his family for 15 years. The moment “Lolita” made him financially independent, he fled Cornell for Switzerland and never set foot in a classroom again.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 120: In his lifetime, Nabokov received many contrary and often puzzled reviews. The Hollywood producer Robert Evans famously flew to Switzerland in 1968 to read an advance copy of the novel “Ada” in one day. “It was torture,” he recalled. Dwight Macdonald hated “Pale Fire” on behalf of Partisan Review, calling it “unreadable . . . too clever by half . . . Philistine . . . false” — and he hadn’t even finished his first paragraph!
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 126: Rebecca Solnit, for instance, wrote a cringe-inducing and hilarious essay, “Men Explain Lolita to Me,” including these lines: “A nice liberal man came along and explained to me this book was actually an allegory as though I hadn’t thought of that yet. It is, and it’s also a novel about a big old guy violating a spindly child over and over and over. Then she weeps.”
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 134: Nabokov’s attacks on his fellow Russian novelist Boris Pasternak were anything but amusing. The moment that Pasternak won the Nobel Prize for “Doctor Zhivago” in 1958, Nabokov waged a bitter, personal campaign against Pasternak, a nonstop stream of vitriol.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 252: 1952 is a capital year in the novel and the number 52 is omnipresent and thus loaded with a mysterious meaning in the mind of Nabokov, in the context of this novel. It must be a central symbolic element in the Lolita’s riddle. Se oli hyvä vuosi muutenkin. « Pierre Point in Melville Sound » (p.33 TAL) was a reference to « Pierre or the Ambiguities » a Novel by Herman Melville (1819-1891; notice the 19/91) published in 1852. «brun adolescent (…) se tordre-oh Baudelaire! » (p.162 TAL): Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867 was one of the most famous French poet who translated Edgar A. Poe in French). A part of « Le Crépuscule du Matin » (1852). Se tordre tarkoittanee käteenvetoa. Humbert refering to the hunchbacked hoary black groom at the « Enchanted Hunters » Hotel: « Handed over to uncle Tom » (p.118 TAL): « Uncle Tom’s Cabin » by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) is from 1852. Ehm… the list is non-negligible.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 256: Hegel (mentioned in p.259 TAL; he married in 1811 and his sister Christian Luise died in 1832) was fascinated by Goethe (and also by Jean-jacques Rousseau (allusion to him in p. TAL « Jean-jacques Humbert« ) and the French Revolution). Goethe published a « Theory of Colours » concerning the light spectrum (a hint, more about this in the final conclusion part). There are recurrent mentions of Goethe in Freud‘s writings. Schopenhauer cited Goethe’s novel « Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship » as one of the four greatest novels ever written, along with « Tristram Shandy« , « La Nouvelle Heloïse« , and « Don Quixote« .
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 297: Stratton-Porter wrote several best-selling novels in addition to columns for national magazines, such as McCall's and Good Housekeeping, among others. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages, including Braille, and at their peak in the 1910s attracted an estimated 50 million readers. Eight of her novels, including A Girl of the Limberlost, were adapted into moving pictures. Stratton-Porter was also the subject of a one-woman play, A Song of the Wilderness. Two of her former homes in Indiana are state historic sites, the Limberlost State Historical Site in Geneva and the Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site on Sylvan Lake, near Rome City, Indiana.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 299: Tyttö Limberlostista (romaani) - A Girl of the Limberlost (novel) Wikipediasta, ilmaisesta tietosanakirjasta. Voit lukea sen tästä jos haluat.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 443: Loppupeleissä Humbert Humbert tuntee tarvetta samastua Prosper Merriméen nimekkkääseen novellisankariin, jonka koko nimeä ei kyllä kukaan muista, paizi eze oli Hosee. LHC niinkö Wokun projektissa jonka johtajana oli Orava.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 445: Carmen on Prosper Mériméen kirjoittama novelli tai pienoisromaani vuodelta 1845. Siihen pohjautuu Georges Bizet’n vuonna 1875 säveltämän samannimisen oopperan libretto. Novellin suomensi kuppainen Kasimir Leino, ja suomennoksen on julkaissut vuonna 1907 Kirja. Wilhon seurakunta kokoontui loppupeleissä mm. Kirjalla. Uudelleen sen on suomentanut Reino Hakamies. Reijon pojalla Pekka Hakamiehellä ja sen siskolla oli spanielin silmät. Don Jose oli baskiainen.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 449: Fernando Delgado Sanz, más conocido como El Tuerto de Pirón o Tuerto Pirón (Santo Domingo de Pirón, Segovia, 30 de mayo de 1846 - Valencia, 5 de julio de 1914), fue un bandolero español muy temido en su época que con el tiempo ganó fama de bondadoso, llamado así por tener desde niño una nube en el ojo que cubría con un parche.​ Actuó principalmente en la sierra de Guadarrama y las cuenca de los ríos Pirón y Lozoya. Tuerto tarkottaa silmäpuoli. Ei tää nyt voinut olla sama silmäpuoli, Prosperin novelli ilmestyi ennenkö tää bandiitti oli edes syntynyt.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 484: In 1996, two years before the main action of the novel, Silk is accused of racism by two African-American students over his use of the word spooks, using the term as he wonders aloud over their having missed all his classes for the first five weeks of the semester ("Does anyone know these people? Do they exist or are they spooks?" - he has never seen these students, and has no idea they are African-American) rather than in the racially derogatory sense. The uproar leads to Silk's resignation. Soon after, his wife Iris dies of a stroke, which Silk feels is caused by the stress of his being forced out of the college.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 490: Mut hei! Faunia ei olekaan oikeasti lukutaidoton! Se ei olekaan siis aivan paaria! Se voi lukea vaikka Pilin novellit! Silkillä ei kyllä seiso ilman Zeusta, tarkoittaen Viagraa.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 500: 9. Late in the novel, Nathan discovers that Faunia had kept a diary and that “the illiteracy had been an act, something she decided her situation demanded” [p. 297]. Why did Faunia feign illiteracy? Was there any reason why she chose this flaw in lieu of others? What are the implications of her secret?
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 508: 16. The Human Stain is a novel of sweeping ambition that tells the stories not just of individual lives but of the moral ethos of America at the end of the twentieth century. How would that ethos be described? What does the novel reveal about the complexity of issues such as race, sex, identity, and privacy?
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 125: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield KG PC FRS (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is the only British prime minister to have been of Jewish birth. He was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even as prime minister.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 130: World events thereafter moved against the Conservatives. Controversial wars in Afghanistan and South Africa undermined his public support. He angered British farmers by refusing to reinstitute the Corn Laws in response to poor harvests and cheap imported grain. With Gladstone conducting a massive speaking campaign, his Liberals defeated Disraeli´s Conservatives at the 1880 general election. In his final months, Disraeli led the Conservatives in Opposition. He had written novels throughout his career, beginning in 1826, and he published his last completed novel, Endymion, shortly before he died at the age of 76. Russell pelkäsi pienenä Gladstonen setää.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 145: Ludwig Anton Salomon Fulda (1862–1939) oli saksalainen runoilija ja näytelmäkirjailija. Hän sai nuorena vaikutteita Paul Heysen tuotannosta ja liittyi 1888 Berliinissä maltillista realismia harrastaneeseen runoilijaryhmään. Fuldan julkaisemia runokokoelmia ovat Gedichte (1890) ja Neue Gedichte (1900), jotka osoittavat harvinaista kieli- ja muototaituruutta, sekä lukuisia näytelmiä. Miellyttäviä ovat Fuldan novellit Lebensfragmente (1894) ja Die Hochzeitsreise nach Rom (1900).
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 447: Christopher Morley (5 May 1890 – 28 March 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 504: Charles Bukowski julkaisi ensimmäiset novellinsa 1940-luvulla ja varhaisimman runokirjansa vuonna 1959. Bukowskin tunnetuin romaani on vuonna 1971 julkaistu Postitoimisto. Hänen tuotantonsa on pitkälti omaelämänkerrallista, ja kuvaa usein alkoholisteja, huumeidenkäyttäjiä, rikollisia, prostituoituja ja muita yhteiskunnan syrjäytyneitä. Bukowskista tuli jo 1960-luvulla kaikkien ulkopuolisten sankari, jota useat kirjallisten piirien tunnetut hahmot, kuten Sartre ja Genet, ylistivät.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 506: Bukowski syntyi Andernachissa, Saksassa ja muutti jo kaksivuotiaana perheensä kanssa Los Angelesiin, Yhdysvaltoihin, missä hän asui suurimman osan elämästään. Hänen äitinsä oli saksalainen ja isä yhdysvaltalainen sotilas. Lapsuudessaan Bukowski oli syrjäänvetäytyvä ja hiljainen. Teini-iässä hänelle tuli vielä äärimmäisen paha akne, mikä vaikeutti sosiaalista elämää entisestään. Nuoruudessaan hän vietti kiertelevää elämää asuen muun muassa Philadelphiassa ja New Orleansissa. Hän teki satunnaisia pätkätöitä ja kirjoitti novelleja, joita lähetti moniin kirjallisuuslehtiin julkaisun toivossa.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 518: Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was a British poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish mythology. Graves produced more than 140 works in his lifetime. His poems, his translations and innovative analysis of the Greek myths, his memoir of his early life—including his role in World War I—Good-Bye to All That, and his speculative study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddess, have never been out of print.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 519: He earned his living from writing, particularly popular historical novels such as I, Claudius; King Jesus; The Golden Fleece; and Count Belisarius. He also was a prominent translator of Classical Latin and Ancient Greek texts; his versions of The Twelve Caesars and The Golden Ass remain popular for their clarity and entertaining style. Graves was awarded the 1934 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for both I, Claudius and Claudius the God.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 538: He had a good education at the lycée in Rouen, falling under the influence of a charismatic teacher, Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as “Alain.” Alain inspired other pupils, too, including Simone Weil and Raymond Aron, urging them to question received ideas. He gave Maurois a love of literature but also, perhaps surprisingly, urged him to take up the mill business after leaving school. Maurois did so, but in his Elbeuf office he kept a secret cupboard filled with Balzac novels and notebooks, and copied out pages of Stendhal to improve his writing style. He became a Kipling enthusiast, and learned excellent English. He travelled to Paris at least one day a week, and frequented brothels there.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 582: evolution, and his father was writer and editor Leonard Huxley. Huxley´s mother was Julia Arnold (1862–1908), a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, who had gained a First in English Literature there in 1882. Julia and Leonard married in 1885 and they had four children: Margaret (1899–1981), the novelist Aldous, Trevenen and Julian.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 590: Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism. He had no formal artistic training, but his experimental attitude toward the making of art resulted in his invention of frottage—a technique that uses pencil rubbings of objects as a source of images—and grattage, an analogous technique in which paint is scraped across canvas to reveal the imprints of the objects placed beneath. He is also noted for his novels consisting of collages. Vitun tuhertaja. Onko hölmömpää kuin noi Maxin älynväläyxet? Se on yhtä puupää kuin Wolfram Rothin isäpuoli Ernst Rüdiger. Turmiolan Hannu on kyllä raapinut aforismikasaansa ihan pahnanpohjatkin. Oscar Wilden turauxet puolestaan on tyypillistä homopetteröintiä.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 595: Margaret Caroline Anderson (November 24, 1886 – October 19, 1973) was the American founder, editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review, which published a collection of modern American, English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. The periodical is most noted for introducing many prominent American and British writers of the 20th century, such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot in the United States, and publishing the first thirteen chapters of James Joyce's then-unpublished novel, Ulysses. A large collection of her papers on Gurdjieff's teaching is now preserved at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. She was blond, shapely, with lean ankles and a Scandinavian face. ... In 1916, Anderson met Jane Heap. The two became lovers. In early 1924, through Alfred Richard Orage, Anderson came to know of spiritual teacher George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, and saw performances of his 'Sacred dances', first at the 'Neighbourhood Playhouse', and later at Carnegie Hall. Shortly after Gurdjieff's automobile accident, Anderson, along with Georgette Leblanc, Jane Heap and Monique Surrere, moved to France to visit him at Fountainebleau-Avon, where he had set up his institute at Château du Prieuré in Avon.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 622: Maureen Patricia Duffy (born 21 October 1933) is an English poet, playwright, novelist and non-fiction author. Long an activist covering such issues as gay rights and animal rights, she campaigns especially on behalf of authors. She has received the Benson & Hedges Medal for her damn long writings.
xxx/ellauri129.html on line 192: X-sukupolven naisten miesnovellit on aika extreemejä. Leena Parkkisen Uljanovits on toxisempi äijämies kuin Bertie Russell. Tiina Lymin Larska-meklari on kuin tupsukärkinen Aino-tohveli. Sen Seija vaimo huutaa sille luurissa kuin tiikeri:
xxx/ellauri129.html on line 208: Ostin 10v vanhan sleazyn novellikokoelman Viehe ja viettelys (2011) 50 sentillä Käpylän kirjaston poistohyllystä. Hinnassa oli ilmaa noin puoli egeä. Kirjan takana on X-sukupolven ex-nuorten novellistien varmaan ize kirjoittamia esittelyblurbeja.
xxx/ellauri129.html on line 210: Riku Rinkulaa valittiin vuoden opettajaxi. Hn nappasi novellilla huonon kirjallisuuden seuran palkinnon.
xxx/ellauri129.html on line 436: Pasi Ilmarin fantasianovelli on vitun narsistinen. Muuta en odottanutkaan.
xxx/ellauri129.html on line 447: I appreciate the novella has a plot, but this strength is not enough to overcome the story´s weaknesses, which for me were 1) overly long paragraphs of narrative--one went for almost six pages, and 2) a lack of understanding until almost halfway through the story what the stakes for the protagonist were.
xxx/ellauri129.html on line 672: William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known for The Woman in White (1859), and for The Moonstone (1868), which has been posited as the first modern English detective novel. Born to the London painter William Collins and his wife, he moved with the family to Italy when he was twelve, living there and in France for two years and learning Italian and French. He worked initially as a tea merchant. After publishing Antonina, his first novel, in 1850, Collins met Charles Dickens, who became a friend and mentor. Some Collins work first appeared in Dickens's journals Household Words and All the Year Round. They also collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins gained financial stability and an international following by the 1860s, but began to suffer from gout and became addicted to the opium he took for the pain, so that his health and writing quality declined in the 1870s and 1880s. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage: he split his time between widow Caroline Graves – living with her for most of his adult life, treating her daughter as his – and the younger Martha Rudd, by whom he had three children.
xxx/ellauri130.html on line 549: Alfred Austin P.L. (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after an interval following the death of Tennyson, when the other candidates had either caused controversy or refused the honour. It was claimed that he was being rewarded for his support for the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury in the General Election of 1895. Austin´s poems are little-remembered today, his most popular work being prose idylls celebrating nature. Austin oli aika lailla Unlucky Alfin näköinen. Bugger it. With my luck, they nominate me as Poet Laureate. Austin was caricatured as "Sir Austed Alfrin" by L. Frank Baum in his 1906 novel John Dough and the Cherub. He was also the subject of a Vanity Fair cartoon by Spy published on 20 February 1896.
xxx/ellauri137.html on line 637: Edward Eriksson writes novels, plays, and travel essays. This is his third novel, his others being "Moonbeam in My Pocket, a Mystery of the Negro League" and "Flamingo Desires," a crime story set on Long Island.
xxx/ellauri137.html on line 751: The novel features a passionate romance between Rei Shimura and Hugh Glendinning, the Scottish lawyer. Though the romance was not very realistic, I think it added an exciting and entertaining element to the novel. The first person point-of-view from which the novel is narrated allows the audience to truly understand the good and the bad of Rei’s character. She is independent to a fault but extremely loyal. She wants to immerse herself in Japanese culture, yet she rejects the social norms of society when they conflict with her desires. She is passionate about her interest in history and antiques, but logical by staying on as a teacher. The contradictions make her human and contribute to the reality of the novel. While mystery was not entirely believable, it was in no way predictable and I genuinely found the plot to be exciting. The Salaryman’s Wife, fits into the detective fiction tradition as most closely as a cozy, however the urban setting and the inclusion of graphic sex scenes contradict that classification
xxx/ellauri137.html on line 760: As an Asian woman who likes mystery novels, I was looking forward to reading a mystery novel with an Asian woman protagonist (so rare in the English speaking world!) and the subsequent disappointment could mean that I am reacting more harshly than I would otherwise.
xxx/ellauri137.html on line 777: MikeL found it not that suspenseful and a bit cheesy. Reviewed in the United States on 25 January 2015. The crime story was so so. Some cheesy cliffhanging language. Characters and relationships were off. While an easy read, I have read much better crime novels.
xxx/ellauri138.html on line 82: Rohn mentored Mark R. Hughes (the founder of Herbalife International) and life strategist Tony Robbins in the late 1970s. Others who credit Rohn for his influence on their careers include authors/lecturers Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canafield (Chicken Soup book series), Everton Edwards (Hallmark Innovators Conglomerate), Brian Tracy, Todd Smith, and T. Harv Eker. Rohn also coauthored the novel Twelve Pillars with Chris Widener.
xxx/ellauri138.html on line 206: Wylie applied engineering principles and the scientific method quite broadly in his work. His novel The Disappearance (1951) is about what happens when everyone suddenly finds that all members of the opposite sex are missing (all the men have to get along without women, and vice versa). The book delves into the double standards between men and women that existed prior the women's bowel movement of the 1970s, exploring the nature of the relationship between men and women and the issues of women's rights and homosexuality.
xxx/ellauri138.html on line 210: In 1941, Wylie became Vice-President of the International Game Fish Association, and for many years was responsible for writing IGFA rules and reviewing world record claims. Wylie's 1954 novel Tomorrow! dealt graphically with the civilian impact of thermonuclear war to make a case for a strong Civil Defense network in the United States, as he told the story of two neighboring cities (one prepared, one unprepared) before and after an attack by missile-armed Soviet bombers.
xxx/ellauri138.html on line 215: Wylie's final novel, The End of the Dream, was published posthumously in 1972 and foresees a dark future where America slides into ecological catastrophe.
xxx/ellauri138.html on line 241: Gustav von Aschenbach, Thomas Mannin novellin Kuolema Venetsiassa päähenkilö.
xxx/ellauri138.html on line 262: Caro Llewellyn said that "Philip Roth: The Biography" distorted his friendship with the novelist: "My intimacy with Philip was not in keeping with the story Blake was trying to make. Write." In the biography, Bailey identifies her by the pseudonym Mona. He describes how she and Roth went through each other and were physically intimate but never had sex because he was unable to, even after taking Viagra. But Llewellyn said the scene Bailey described never happened, not quite like that.
xxx/ellauri139.html on line 205: As the beginning of the conclusion shows, the end to the novel can hardly be considered a happy one. In most cases, whatever positive transformations the characters underwent through their friendship with Myshkin unravel, either because they were unable to sustain the wisdom they learned from him or because they were so traumatized by the cruel absurdity of their life that they are reduced to a state of helplessness.
xxx/ellauri148.html on line 78: He has written several novels, including Gandhi's 5 last books and The Quotations of Chairman Meow (based on the adventures of the Chairman's cat, Meow).
xxx/ellauri148.html on line 100: McCormack has recently been accepted to the University of California at Los Angeles pornographic film school; he and his silicon wife will be moving from Nebraska to Los Angeles in the fall. He says he is eager to begin erecting and also has future plans to break into film as a character actor. McCormack, who someday hopes to develop some of his (well, his, Mahatma's and Hemingway's) novels into movies, says he has waited to go to Hollywood until the time felt right and he had paid his dues.
xxx/ellauri154.html on line 85: George Sand was known to her friends and family as "Aurore". Sand inherited the house of her granny, another Aurore, in 1821, when her grandmother died; she used the setting in many of her novels.
xxx/ellauri154.html on line 99: While there were many contemporary critics of her comportment, many people accepted her behaviour until they became shocked with the subversive tone of her novels. Those who found her writing admirable were not bothered by her ambiguous or rebellious public behaviour. Victor Hugo commented "George Sand cannot determine whether she is male or female. I entertain a high regard for all my colleagues, but it is not my place to decide whether she is my sister or my brother. I bet s/he doesn´t know her/himself." She engaged in an intimate romantic relationship with actress Marie Dorval. She was buried in sand behind the chapel at Nohant. In 1880 her children sold the rights to her literary estate for 125,000 Francs[28] (equivalent to 36 kg worth of gold, or 1.3 million dollars in 2015 USD). Quite a handsome net worth for a lady. Sand often performed her theatrical works in her small private theatre at the Nohant estate. Sand was all for the bourgeois revolution but no communist. Victor Hugo, in the eulogy he gave at her funeral, said "the lyre was within her, so no wonder nothing else could fit in."
xxx/ellauri154.html on line 103: Fyodor Dostoevsky "read widely in the numerous novels of George Sand" and translated her La dernière Aldini in 1844, but "discovered to his dismay that the work had already appeared in Russian". In his mature period, he expressed an ambiguous attitude towards her. For instance, in his novella Notes from Underground the narrator refers to the sentiments he expresses as, "I laugh off at that point the European, inexplicably lofty subtleties of George Sand".
xxx/ellauri154.html on line 105: The American poet Wilt Whatman cited Sand´s novel Consuelo as a personal favorite, and the sequel to this novel, La Comtesse de Rudolstadt, contains at least a couple of passages that appear to have had a very direct influence on him. As a gayperson to another gayperson. Virginia Woolfilla oli varmasti samansuuntaisia internal strifejä vaikkei käyttänytkään miehen nimeä.
xxx/ellauri154.html on line 223: Moreau’s contemporaneous viewers also focused on Salome as “femme fatale” (perhaps most famously, the Symbolist novelist and art critic J. K. Huysmans in his novel À rebours).
xxx/ellauri157.html on line 507: Hermann Karl Hesse (1877-1962), a Nobel Prize-winning German novelist and poet, is best known for his inspired explorations of self-understanding, spiritual realization, and psychology, particularly in Der Steppenwolf (1927), perhaps his best-known work.
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 608: Robert Joseph Shea (February 14, 1933 – March 10, 1994) was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus!. It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere. In 1986 it won the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award. Shea went on to write several action novels based in exotic historical settings.
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 610: Shea met Wilson in the late 1960s when they worked on Playboy magazine. They decided to collaborate on a novel. It would combine sex, drugs, religious cults and conspiracies, as well as anarchy. Their philosophical and political differences merely served to enrich their efforts. Objectivity was jettisoned, as indeed was subjectivity: no single point of view or version of reality was privileged: Illuminatus! was the three-volume consequence.
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 620: The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975. The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction–influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, related to the authors´ version of the Illuminati. The narrative often switches between third- and first-person perspectives in a nonlinear narrative. It is thematically dense, covering topics like counterculture, numerology, and Discordianism.
xxx/ellauri170.html on line 445: Several years ago, an Australian abo named Richard* chanced upon a novel method of attaining an exquisite degree of happiness and contentment. The simple method that he used, he later termed actualism. Later on, he would find a way to dwell permanently in a state of utter delight, stillness and peace – through a process of self-immolation – eradicating the self permanently and living only as a body and its consciousness. This was an actual freedom from the human condition – or actual freedom, for short.
xxx/ellauri176.html on line 144: La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (1875) is the fifth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Viciously anticlerical in tone, it follows on from the horrific events at the end of La Conquête de Plassans, focussing this time on a remote Provençal backwater village.
xxx/ellauri176.html on line 146: Unusually for Zola, the novel contains very few characters and locations, and the lack of realist observation compared to outright fantasy is most uncharacteristic; however, the novel remains extraordinarily powerful and readable, and is considered one of Zola's most linguistically inventive and well-crafted works.
xxx/ellauri176.html on line 150: The plot centres on the neurotic young priest Serge Mouret, first seen in La Conquête de Plassans, as he takes his orders and becomes the parish priest for the uninterested village of Artauds. The inbred villagers have no interest in religion and Serge is portrayed giving several wildly enthusiastic Masses to his completely empty, near-derelict church. Serge not only seems unperturbed by this state of affairs but actually appears to have positively sought it out especially, for it gives him time to contemplate religious affairs and to fully experience the fervour of his faith. Eventually he has a complete nervous breakdown and collapses into a near-comatose state, whereupon his distant relative, the unconventional doctor Pascal Rougon (the central character of the last novel in the series, 1893's Le Docteur Pascal), places him in the care of the inhabitants of a nearby derelict stately home, Le Paradou.
xxx/ellauri176.html on line 152: The novel then takes a complete new direction in terms of both tone and style, as Serge — suffering from amnesia and total long-term memory loss, with no idea who or where he is beyond his first name — is doted upon by Albine, the whimsical, innocent and entirely uneducated girl who has been left to grow up practically alone and wild in the vast, sprawling, overgrown grounds of Le Paradou. The two of them live a life of idyllic bliss with many Biblical parallels, and over the course of a number of months, they fall deeply in love with one another; however, at the moment they consummate their relationship, they are discovered by Serge's monstrous former monsignor and his memory is instantly returned to him. Wracked with guilt at his unwitting sins, Serge is plunged into a deeper religious fervour than ever before, and poor Albine is left bewildered at the loss of her soulmate. As with many of Zola's earlier works, the novel then builds to a horrible climax. Well not really. It is more like a horrible anticlimax.
xxx/ellauri176.html on line 154: The novel was translated into English by Vizetelly & Co. in the 1880s as Abbé Mouret's Transgression, but this text must be considered faulty due to its many omissions and bowdlerisations, as well as its rendering of Zola's language in one of his most technically complex novels into a prolix and flat style of Victorian English bearing little resemblance to the original text. Two more faithful translations emerged in the 1950s and 1960s under the titles The Sinful Priest and The Sin of Father Mouret.
xxx/ellauri176.html on line 160: Max Haufler (Schweizi) teki filmiversion tästä v. 1937, kukaan ei enää ole kommentoinut sitä netissä. The novel was adapted as the 1970 French film The Demise of Father Mouret, directed by Georges Franju, starring Gillian Hills and Francis Huster.
xxx/ellauri176.html on line 163: The Demise of Father Mouret" is not likely to win Franju new friends in the U.S. of A., though I've no doubt that the film may be faithful to the novel, which I haven't read, and to Zola, whose occasional flights into a kind of naturalized romanticism haven't worn well. "The Demise of Father Mouret"
xxx/ellauri176.html on line 717: Much like her meticulously researched historical novels, author Sujata Massey carefully curates the family meals and lists them on a small chalkboard hanging from a wall of her kitchen on Baltimore. “Usually, I try to plan my menus on Sunday,” says Massey, who lives in a late 19th-century Tuxedo Park home with her husband, Anthony, and children Pia, 16, and Neel, 13. “Tonight, they’re going to have coriander chicken.
xxx/ellauri176.html on line 867: Unlike Jordan, the young Jewish hairdresser who infiltrated his organisation in the drama is a work of fiction. Jordan features in the 2014 historical novel Ridley Road by Jo Bloom. According to some reports, his father was a lecturer, while others claim that he was a postman. His mother was a teacher. Her real name was Agnes Eustacia Kenig and her father was a postman or a tailor.
xxx/ellauri177.html on line 245: The Demise of Father Mouret (French: La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret, "The Mistake of Father Mouret") is a 1970 French film directed by Georges Franju, based on the 1875 novel La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret by Émile Zola. Like the novel, the film is about Father Mouret, a young priest (played by Francis Huster) who is sent to a remote village in Provence, then has a nervous breakdown and develops amnesia. While recuperating, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Albine (Gillian Hills), with whom he begins an idyllic relationship meant to recall the story of Adam and Eve. When he regains his memory, though, he is wracked with guilt, and ends the relationship, leading to tragedy for both.
xxx/ellauri178.html on line 111: Tästä aiheesta piti Pilin tehdä term paper mutta se bylsikin vaan Lontoossa kahta (2) ruozalaista tyttöä jotka tiesivät että WW2 oli kaikkien syytä. Pili jenkkijutkuna meinas saada hepulin. Bettan koitti tehdä izarin ja Pili syytti siitä Gittania. Vitun Raskolnikov, tai Puddinhead Wilson. Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. Its central intrigue revolves around two boys—one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy. Each grows into the other's social role.
xxx/ellauri178.html on line 126: Roth patronisoi Lontoossa irkku Edna O'Brieniä ja matki (huonosti) sen iiriaxenttia. Chevalieria se pyysi tekemään imitaatioita. O'Brien's works often revolve around the inner feelings of women, and their problems in relating to men, and to society as a whole. Her first novel, The Country Girls (1960), is often credited with breaking silence on sexual matters and social issues during a repressive period in Ireland following World War II. The book was banned, burned and denounced from the pulpit. Sähän olet hyvä kynäilijä, Pili soitti iloisesti Ednalle. Niin olen sanoi Edna ohuesti.
xxx/ellauri178.html on line 136: Kakutani reviewed Norman Mailer’s 2006 novel The Gospel According to the Sun, a first-person autobiographical retelling of the Bible from the perspective of Jesus himself. She called it “a silly, self-important and at times inadvertently comical book that reads like a combination of Godspell, Nikos Kazantzakis’ Last Temptation of Christ and one of those new, dumbed-down Bible translations”; Mailer, never one to shy away from a writerly squabble, called Kakutani a “one-woman kamikaze”.
xxx/ellauri178.html on line 138: While she wrote that the 1,096-page epic cemented Foster-Wallace as “one of the big talents of his generation, a writer of virtuosic talents who can seemingly do anything”, she also quoted Henry James in calling Jest a “loose, baggy monster”, adding that it read like a “vast, encyclopedic compendium of whatever seems to have crossed Mr Wallace’s mind”. In his 2012 biography of the late Foster-Wallace, DT Max wrote that the writer “told a friend he hid in his room for two days and cried after reading yet another paragraph of Rei devoted to parallels between his first book and Pynchon’s most popular novel”.
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*Huomautus: Monet tämän keskeneräisen romaanin versiot sisältävät kaksi novellia, joista toinen sijoittuu sankariksi midshipmaniksi* ja luetaan "Mr. Midshipman Hornblowerin" jälkeen, kun taas toinen sijoittuu vuodelle 1848 ja se tulisi lukea viimeisenä. Siinä Horatio on vanha kääkkänä.
xxx/ellauri235.html on line 438: Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure and military crusades. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, about naval warfare during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston).
xxx/ellauri235.html on line 444: Of course, most readers will want to learn about Hornblower (one of the few fictional characters with a biography), where that name came from, and what mechanism the father used to develop the many characters in his novels. But who would be startled to learn that Forester played an important role in the propaganda used by the UK to encourage the US’s entrance into WW2?
xxx/ellauri235.html on line 450: The popularity of the Hornblower series, built around a central character who was heroic but not too heroic, has continued to grow over time. It is perhaps rivalled only by the much later Aubrey–Maturin series of seafaring novels by Patrick O'Brian (n.h.). Both Hornblower and Aubrey are based in part on the historical Admiral Lord Dunder Fart of Great Britain (known as Lord Cochrane during the period when the novels are set).
xxx/ellauri235.html on line 458: Roald Dahl (13. syyskuuta 1916 – 23. marraskuuta 1990) oli brittiläinen kirjailija, runoilija, käsikirjoittaja ja hävittäjälentäjä. Dahl kirjoitti elämänsä aikana kaikkiaan 19 lastenkirjaa, yhdeksän novellikokoelmaa ja useita elokuva- ja televisiokäsikirjoituksia plus pornoa. Dahlin tunnetuimpia kirjoja ovat Jali ja suklaatehdas sekä Matilda. Roaldilla oli sodan jälkeen varmaan jotain jimbajambaa "Hornblower" Smithin kanssa. Siihen liittyvä roman à clé on Iso kiltti jätti ja perskurkkana.
xxx/ellauri250.html on line 159: He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer in Depression-era Los Angeles. It is widely considered the great Los Angeles novel, and is one in a series of four, published between 1938 and 1985, that are now collectively called "The Bandini Quartet". Ask the Dust was adapted into a 2006 film starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek.
xxx/ellauri250.html on line 164: This is not a movie for the masses. It is, however, a small film about real life hardships and their tragic consequences. While the dialogue and careful pacing befits the original novel, the film sometimes drags because of it. Towne has not given us the great American love story, but he has presented us with a captivating view of 1933 Los Angeles and a tale of romance that involves us in the plight of the characters.
xxx/ellauri250.html on line 585: Two years later they moved from the East Hollywood area, where he had lived for most of his life, to the harborside community of San Pedro, the southernmost district of Los Angeles. Beighle followed him and they lived together intermittently over the next two years. He eventually "agreed to" marry her by Manly Palmer Hall, a Canadian-born author, mystic, and spiritual teacher, in 1985. Beighle is referred to as "Sara Heinämaa" in Bukowski's novels Women and Hollywood.
xxx/ellauri250.html on line 588: Bukowski died of leukemia on March 9, 1994, in San Pedro, aged 73, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp Fiction.
xxx/ellauri250.html on line 608: Henry Charles "Hank" Chinaski is the literary alter ego of the American writer Charles Bukowski, appearing in five of Bukowski's novels, a number of his short stories and poems, and the films Barfly and Factotum. Although much of Chinaski's biography is based on Bukowski's own life story, the Chinaski character is still a literary creation that is constructed with the veneer of what the writer Adam Kirsch calls "a pulp fiction hero."
xxx/ellauri250.html on line 610: Chinaski is a writer who worked for years as a mail carrier. An alcoholic, womanizing misanthrope, he serves as both the protagonist and antihero of the novels in which he appears, which span from his poverty-stricken childhood to his middle age, in which he finds some small success as a hippie Idol.
xxx/ellauri251.html on line 90: Question: Is Atalanta in Calydon a novel a poem or a play?

xxx/ellauri252.html on line 288: Salama muistaa, miten vanha kaveri, ”viinankirkkaassa neuvostouskossaan punatähtenä loistanut” Pentti Saarikoski teurasti hänen vuonna 1962 ilmestyneen novellikokoelmansa ja miten Hesarin Toini Havu nimitti häntä modernismin hännänhuipuksi.
xxx/ellauri259.html on line 657: Siddhartha, kirjoittanut Herman Hesse. Julkaistuaan novellinsa Siddharta-nimisestä miehestä ja tämän polusta kohti valaistumista Herman Hessestä tuli eräänlainen idoli oman sukupolvensa nuorison ja sitä seuraavien sukupolvien keskuudessa. Vaikkei kyseessä olekaan Buddhan elämänkerta, Hesse ammensi ilman muuta inspiraatiota Buddhan elämäntarinasta. Tarina kritisoi ihmisten ylpeyttä ja individualismia, mutta kertoo myös meidän kaikkien sisällä piilevästä henkisestä potentiaalista ja siitä, miten voimme tuoda sen esiin itsessämme.
xxx/ellauri259.html on line 659: Alkemisti, kirjoittanut Paulo Coelho. Kirja, jota on myyty peräti 150 maassa. Hahmo, joka matkustaa kauas kotoaan kokien matkallaan mitä moninaisimpia seikkailuja ja toisinaan myös vastoinkäymisiä etsiessään aarretta ymmärtääkseen lopulta, että hänen etsimänsä aarre olikin kotona kaiken aikaa. Kyseessä on novelli, joka todella antaa ajateltavaa.
xxx/ellauri259.html on line 699: The movie is based on the cult novel by Kari Hotakainen, itself a comedic, exaggerated vision of the author's own bohemian life. A newspaper editor hints at Hotakainen (Martti Suosalo) that he should write autobiographical texts about real-world subjects. The lonely and quiet writer is confused since he has little life of which to write about. So he decides to buy a used car and write about the experience. But he has to meet some strange people such as the nihilistic salesman Kartio (Matti Onnismaa) and the jobless layabout Pera (Janne Hyytiäinen), in order to do so. Pera in particular will stop at nothing to get his hands on the same car Hotakainen has been viewing, which sparks up a huge rivalry. These flabby machos drive the disgruntled small guy over the edge.
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 263: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) tells the story of several unrelated people who happen to be on a bridge in Peru when it collapses, killing them. Philosophically, the book explores the problem of evil, or the question, of why unfortunate events occur to people who seem "innocent" or "undeserving", known as theodicy. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and in 1998 it was selected by the editorial board of the American Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century. The book was quoted by British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the memorial service for victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001.
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 559: Sherwood Anderson (13. syyskuuta 1876 Camden, Ohio – 8. maaliskuuta 1941 Colón, Panama) oli yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija. Hän vaikutti novelleillaan erityisesti ensimmäisen ja toisen maailmansodan välisen ajan kirjallisuuteen. Ohiossa syntyneen Andersonin isä oli etelävaltiolaista sukua, äiti puolestaan italialaista syntyperää. Perhe vaihtoi asuinpaikkaa usein. Andersonin äiti kuoli hänen ollessaan 14-vuotias. Kolmen vuoden kuluttua Anderson muutti Chicagoon, missä hän työskenteli eri ammateissa neljä vuotta.
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 564: Anderson tunnetaan etenkin novelleistaan, mutta hän julkaisi myös romaaneja ja runoja. Anderson vaikutti aikansa kertomakirjallisuuteen ja muun muassa Ernest Hemingwayn, William Faulknerin ja John Steinbeckin tuotantoon. Hänen tunnetuin teoksensa lienee novellikokoelman ja romaanin rajamailla liikkuva Winesburg, Ohio (1919), joka on ilmestynyt suomeksi nimellä Pikkukaupunki (1955). Andersonin kirjallinen tyyli pohjautui arkikieleen ja sai vaikutteita Gertrude Steinilta.
xxx/ellauri265.html on line 237: Vizi Eskin pää on vakavasti sekaisin. Kermaperseistä se löytää aasinsillan Iso-Venäjään ja neuvostoajan nostalgiaan. Vielä sillä etumerkillä että retapuot on hyviä ja vessaa vartioineet tädit pahoja. Niillä oli sentään töitä ja izekunnioitusta vaikka vaan haisevalla vessanovella. Ja valtaa antaa tarveharkintaisesti joko 2 vessapaperia tai vaan 1.
xxx/ellauri268.html on line 126: Vorliegende Erzählung ist ein Teil eines großen, aber niemals von dem Dichter vollendeten Novellenzyklus, „Das Vermächtnis Kains“, der nach Sacher-Masochs eigenem Ausspruche „eine bilderreiche Naturgeschichte des Menschen sein sollte“. Das Ganze sollte in sechs Unterabteilungen zu je sechs Novellen zerfallen, für welche die Obertitel „Die Liebe“, „Das Eigentum“, „Das Geld“, „Der Staat“, „Der Krieg“ und „Der Tod“ vorgesehen waren. Sacher-Masoch hatte sich somit ein sehr hohes Ziel gesteckt, er wollte in diesen geplanten Erzählungen alles Menschenleid und -schicksal in seinen verschiedensten Möglichkeiten und Ausdrucksformen schildern und zugleich in der Schlußnovelle eines jeden Teiles die Antwort auf die behandelte Frage und deren Lösung geben.
xxx/ellauri268.html on line 149: Emmauxen käynnillä haaviin sattui Irwin Shawin, kommunistivainotun venäläisexpatriaatin novellikokoelma (1967) jonka niminovelli on "God was here but he left early". Nimi oli hauska, sixi ostin sen. Shawin oma nimikin oli ennen hauskempi. Shaw was born Irwin Gilbert Shamforoff in the South Bronx, New York City, to Jewish immigrants from Russia. Svetlana Moskovasta (venakko) sanoi goodreadseissa novelleista näin:
xxx/ellauri268.html on line 231: Kustantajan epäilyxet eivät olleet aivan perättömiä. Esim. Lich Kingistä kertova fan fiction novelli (Christie Golden) on kuin Jane Austenin tai Kinsellan kynästä. Seikkaperäisesti kerrotaan mitä kelläkin on päällä, mitä syödään ja miltä tuntuu eri poikaystävien suudelmat. Yli sata sivua on aherrettu eikä vielä yhtään ainoata kunnon listintää eikä yhtään mehukasta panoa, edes tappeluita tai car chaseja. Hemmetti, jos olisin tän huomannut, en oisi tuhlannut ko. chick lit niteeseen viittäkypää senttiä!
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xxx/ellauri280.html on line 74: We guarantee you will enjoy this novel. Before giving up too many spoilers, know that the story is filled with plenty of dangerous events and characters. There are too many characters to count. There are many reasons why this book is considered Ken Follett’s best book. We are looking forward to more of Follett’s upcoming books.
xxx/ellauri280.html on line 81: Monet Bennettin romaaneista ja novelleista sijoittuvat Staffordshire Potteriesin fiktiiviseen versioon, jota hän kutsui Viideksi kaupungiksi. Hän uskoi vahvasti, että kirjallisuuden pitäisi olla tavallisten ihmisten saatavilla, ja hän pahoitteli kirjallisia klikejä ja eliittiä. Hänen kirjansa vetosivat suureen yleisöön ja niitä myytiin suuria määriä. Tästä syystä ja hänen sitoutumisestaan ​​realismiin modernistisen koulukunnan kirjailijat ja kannattajat, erityisesti Virginia Woolf , vähättelivät häntä, ja hänen fiktionsa laiminlyötiin hänen kuolemansa jälkeen. Hänen elämänsä aikana hänen journalistisia "self-help" -kirjoja myytiin huomattavia määriä, ja hän oli myös näytelmäkirjailija; hän menestyi teatterissa huonommin kuin romaaneissa, mutta saavutti kaksi merkittävää menestystä elokuvalla Milestones (1912) ja Suuri seikkailu (1913).
xxx/ellauri280.html on line 89: John Boynton Priestley's first major success came with a novel, The Good Companions (1929), which earned him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and made him a national figure. His next novel, Angel Pavement (1930), further established him as a successful novelist. However some critics were less than complimentary about his work and Priestley threatened legal action against Graham Greene for what he took to be a defamatory portrait of him in the novel Stamboul Train (1932). In 1940 he broadcast a series of short propaganda radio talks, which were credited with strengthening civilian morale during the Battle of Britain. In the following years his left-wing beliefs brought him into conflict with the government and influenced the development of the welfare state.
xxx/ellauri280.html on line 422: Palkinto tuli pistämättömästä mutta myötätuntoisesta penetraatiosta. Gurnah has criticized the practices in both British and American publishing that want to "make the alien seem alien" by marking "foreign" terms and phrases with italics or by putting them in a glossary. Onkos se joku ylläri. Felicity Hand observes that Gurnah´s characters typically do not succeed abroad following their migration, using irony and humour to respond to their situation. Talk to the hand. The first translator of his novels into Swahili, academic Dr Ida Hadjivayanis of the School of Oriental and African Studies, has said: "I think if his work could be read in East Africa it would have such an impact. ... maybe fewer coons would try to swim over to the West." Gurnah was the first Black writer to receive the prize since 1993, when Toni Morrison won it, and the first African writer since 1991, when Nadine Gordimer was the recipient, making him the first black guy to make it.
xxx/ellauri286.html on line 138: Jatkosodan jälkeen yleisistä kirjastoista poistettiin tai siirrettiin lukittuihin varastoihin liki 300 sisällöltään Neuvostoliiton vastaisiksi katsottua teosta. Entisen sisäministerin Yrjö Leinon muistelmateoksen Kommunisti sisäministerinä julkaiseminen estettiin ns. yöpakkaskriisin aikana vuonna 1958, koska sen pelättiin vahingoittavan Suomen ja Neuvostoliiton suhteita, ja teos julkaistiin vasta Neuvostoliiton romahdettua vuonna 1991. Viimeisimpiä tapauksia ovat olleet epäsiveellisiksi katsottujen, norjalaisen Agnar Myklen novellikokoelman Silmukka kuun sirppiin ja romaanin Laulu punaisesta rubiinista (1957) sekä yhdysvaltalaisen Henry Millerin romaanin Kravun kääntöpiiri (1962) suomennosten takavarikointi.
xxx/ellauri286.html on line 169: Paradoksaalista kyllä, otin lukioikäisenä kirjalliseksi ohjenuorakseni Virginia Woolfin novellin Täplä seinässä (A Mark on the Wall, 1921).
xxx/ellauri295.html on line 458: Martti Kalevi Joenpolvi (s. 19. huhtikuuta 1936 Käkisalmi) oli ja on suomalainen kirjailija, joka asuu Nokialla. Hänet tunnetaan erityisesti novellistina. Esikoisteos ”Kevään kuusi päivää” ilmestyi 1959.
xxx/ellauri295.html on line 485: Kirja kerrallaan on toiveeni. Eli aion jatkaa Rantakylä-sarjaa niin kauan kuin sitä minulta toivotaan ja siihen kykenen. Olen satunnaisesti kirjoittanut myös novelleja lukemistolehteen.
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xxx/ellauri295.html on line 634: Raapale (englanniksi drabble) on tasan sadan sanan pituinen novelli. Lyhyydestään huolimatta raapale on aina selkeä kokonaisuus, eli siinä on alku, keskiosa ja loppu. Esimerkixi:
xxx/ellauri298.html on line 637: On the ship during his return trip from an old world tour he encountered the messiah elect of the Theosophical Society, Jiddu Krishnamurti; they discussed Indian philosophy (that Jiddu had up to his gills by then), sparking in Campbell an interest in Hindu and Indian thought. Lacking faculty approval, Campbell withdrew from graduate studies, becoming a close friend of the budding writer John Steinbeck and his wife Carol. Campbell had an affair with Carol. Campbell too began writing a novel on the "Doc" of Cannery Row but unlike Steinbeck, did not complete his book, instead published a lot of trash on mythology and got rich(er).
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 171: Tämä on pätkä hukkapätkän pätkätyöläinen Järvisen kirjoittamasta lyhytnovellista Helkan päivä, jonka päähenkilöinä ovat rajatilainen 3 lapsen äiti Helka ja sen mies, sadistinen kappalainen.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 376: Ensyklopedinen St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers kutsuu Murphya "ammattilaisen ammattilaiseksi" ja sanoo: "Murphyn lahjakkuuden laajuus huimaa mielikuvitusta... sarjakuvatutkijat, kaprisromaanit, suuret jännitysromaanit, miekka- ja noituusvakoilijaromaanit ja lukittu huone mysteerit yhdessä novellien, sarjakuvien, elokuvien ja lukemattomien yhteistöiden kanssa eivät edes ala leikkaamaan hänen luovan neronsa parametreja."
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 399: I want to show you how to write a novel that doesn't suck (except bucks out of other suckers' pockets). Step by step by step. I don't do this out of a crazy lusting for notoriety, I only in it for the money. Another Day, Another Dollar.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 401: What is a book about? About 200 pages, haha, but seriously: it's about me, 'cause all first novels are autobiographies. It'll talk about my trial, your funeral, and my triumph, how I survived it all and became a beacon of hope for the world, or at least my personal corner of it.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 403: I got my gift from my god, so I hope you did too. Otherwise, dont even bother. Your best bet is a genre novel -- a book that fits into one of the broad general categories such as mystery, suspense, horror, romance, sci-fi, fantasy, historical, paranormal, even soft porn, like my stupid son.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 407: Genre fiction, also known as popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre, in order to appeal to striped-ass baboons and fans already familiar with that genre. A number of major literary figures have written genre fiction. John Banville publishes crime novels as Benjamin Black, and both Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood have written science fiction. Georges Simenon, the creator of the Maigret detective novels, has been described by André Gide as "the most novelistic of novelists in French literature", and the one who has made most money and scored most arse with it. The main genres are crime, fantasy, romance, science fiction and horror—as well as perhaps Western, inspirational and historical fiction.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 414: Mary Higgins Clark once said (she regrets it now) that the best words for a novelist to use while thinking of a story are these: Suppose? What if? Why? Start thinking that way and you will start thinking of story ideas that can become novels and maybe make you the next Mary Higgins Clark.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 448: You're a novelist now. Read like one. Act like one. And comb your hair.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 454: Almost every movie, almost every story, almost every novel, almost every story of any enduring value is structured this way….in four parts. The same parts in a normal intercourse. (Actually there are five, but the last one is often played down or put in an Epilogue.)
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 478: One way is to cast your friends or acquaintances as characters in your book. Another way is to cast the eventual movie while writing your book. In the writing of a novel called “Jericho Day,” in my mind I cast the young Burt Lancaster as the hero, Luke Darling, because I love the look of the square-jawed stubborness of Lancaster and his performing hips.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 513: As novelists, we create a character not by what we tell but by what we show. Show not tell, you know (fucking immigrants shut up). What does that character say? What does he do? What do others say about him? What do they think of him? What would he say if he was slapping a kid at the local Walmart’s? That’s characterization and it makes your fictional people come alive.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 533: In Hollywood where they are always looking for blockbusters — but then don’t know what to do with them so they go back to filming comic books — for the thing they most desire is “high concept.” That means a clean plot, a story you can tell in one sentence. If you can't summarise your novel, well, imagine your novel-to-be is a movie already and tell us about it in a sentence. That should be easy enough.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 535: Herman Melville, titled Moby Duck, is the greatest novel ever written by an American author. Hahhaa, jos se on niin onpa Amerikan kirjallisuus huonoissa kantimissa. Niinkuin se kai onkin. Kuuntele nyt sen tiivistelmää:
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 571: Basically, I’m not a big fan of Raymond Chandler's Big Sleep. Well, why pussyfoot around? Actually I think the book is stupid; however, Raymond Chandler is a particular favorite of artsy-fartsy mystery readers and critics and this rather bizarre genre mystery featuring the private eye Philip Marlowe is often ranked as one of the 100 best novels of all time. I just don't see why, I think my Remo Vanha Vainooja is 10x more fascinating.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 573: Pfffft. Personally, I always thought Chandler was too cute by half and, like the author Trevanian for instance, too hell-bent upon showing you just how smart he was by using obscure little literary references, and this particular novel has a more complex plot than the King James version of the Bible. (I'm often just jealous.)
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 586: Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (/ˈdraɪsər, -zər/;[1] August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945), born from krauts, became an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925).
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 588: James Mallahan Cain (1892-1977) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He is widely regarded as a progenitor of the hardboiled school of American crime fiction. His novels The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Serenade, Mildred Pierce and The Butterfly brought him critical acclaim and an immense popular readership in America and abroad.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 590: The modern novel generally depends on:
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 594: Dialogue that sounds real. This is not tape-recorded dialogue but an attempt to make speech sound more realistic than it often has been written. Sometimes people say things that aren’t exactly to the point; nothing wrong with that as long as it’s interesting and/or entertaining and can move the story forward. Cases in point: the overrated Quentin Tarantino in films like “Pulp Fiction.” One of the best at it was novelist George Higgins. Elmore Leonard is excellent; also Larry Block.
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 601: Finally, a large percentage of novels today are written in restricted third person viewpoint. In other words, in each individual scene, the author works through only one person’s head. Anybody else in the scene, except the major player at that moment, is made to live by his actions and his words, but not by you — as author — getting into his head and telling us what he’s thinking. (Obviously, by the way, private eye novels are in some way illustrative of this rule because most PI’s are written first person since it’s impossible to get into another character’s thoughts and feelings except by showing him cavorting on your literary stage.)
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 629: Suppose you want to write a “big book.” No genre junk for you. Okay. Here’s what you need to know. A “big book” is just a genre novel that got bigger. More pages, more everything. just make it a little bigger, a little more breathless, give it a little more end-of-the-world panache. Think of selling it to Hollywood where they call it high concept but what that really means is that it’s a very short outline of a book for people who can’t read a whole book or even a whole paragraph at once and their mind starts to wander after one sentence. Where was I? Ah yes:
xxx/ellauri304.html on line 645: Did you ever hear of a guy with plumber’s block? Electrician’s block? Did a mechanic ever have mechanic’s block? No, no, and no. The reason is that none of them get paid if they don’t show up to work, so block isn’t really a viable option like flu. However for writers, it often is, but then, they don't get paid. Read Trollope’s autobiography. He worked according to schedule and if he finished a novel, but still had fifteen minutes left in his usual writing day, he would take a fresh piece of paper, write “Chapter One” and get started immediately. Time’s a-wasting, children, said Trollope and went out to fornicate some neighborhood trollops. It pays to be mediocre.
xxx/ellauri307.html on line 739: He played squash, sang in the Amherst Glee Club, and was a writing student of visiting novelist Alan Lelchuk (n.h.). [Merkittäviä kriittisiä tutkimuksia Lelchukista ovat olleet Philip Roth Esquiressa, Wilfrid Sheed Book -of-the-Month Club Newsissa, Benjamin DeMott The Atlanticissa, Mordechai Richler Chicago Tribunessa ja Steven Birkets The New Republicissa. Nämä olivat varmaan kaikki juutalaisia, kuten Lechuk izekin. American Mischief "Yksikään kirjailija ei ole kirjoittanut niin tietäen ja kaunopuheisesti lihallisen intohimon seurauksista Massachusettsissa Scarlet Letterin jälkeen." Philip Roth, Esquire. On Home Ground "On Home Ground herättää nuorille lukijoilleen ajankohtaisia ​​kysymyksiä ja tekee sen niin taitavasti. Se saavuttaa niin paljon menestystä kuin baseball-harjoitus ja nostalgia." Juutalaisomisteinen The New York Times Book Review. Lelchuk kirjoittaa valtavan ilolla kuvista, sanoista ja järkähtämättömästä kuolevaisesta erityisyydestä. Naisille, jotka etsivät vastauksia, hän tarjoaa juutalaisia olankohautuxia, epäselvyyttä, joka on omituisen tyydyttävää." Catherine Bateson (juutalaisen Margaret Meadin juutalainen tytärvainaa).] Brown spent the 1985 school year abroad in Seville, Spain, where he was enrolled in an art history course at the University of Seville. Brown graduated from Amherst in 1986.
xxx/ellauri307.html on line 740: Danilla oli surkea muusikonura länsirannikolla jota nöyrä, sittemmin eroprosessissa kusetettu vaimo Blythe koitti turhaan buustata. Brown and his wife Blythe moved to Rye, New Hampshire in 1993, samana vuonna jolloin ize sain karkoituxen Kouvolaan. Brown became an English teacher at his alma mater Phillips Exeter, and gave Spanish classes to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders at Lincoln Akerman School, a small school for K–8th grade with about 250 students, in Hampton Falls. Aikamoinen mahalasku tuli Danille(kin). While on vacation in Tahiti in 1993, Brown read Sidney Sheldon's (n.h.) novel The Doomsday Conspiracy, and was inspired to become a writer of thrillers. He started work on Digital Fortress, setting much of it in Seville, where he had studied in 1985. He also co-wrote a humor book with his wife, 187 Men to Avoid: A Survival Guide for the Romantically Frustrated Woman, under the pseudonym "Danielle Brown". Brown's first three novels had little success, with fewer than 10,000 copies in each of their first printings. His fourth novel, The Da Vinci Code, became a bestseller, going to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list during its first week of release in 2003. It is one of the most popular books of all time, with 81 million copies sold worldwide as of 2009. Its success has helped push sales of Brown's earlier flops. Brown's prose style has been criticized as clumsy, to say the least. The Da Vinci Code committed style and word choice blunders in almost every paragraph. Recurring elements that Brown prefers to incorporate into his novels include a simple hero pulled out of their familiar setting and thrust into a new one with which they are unfamiliar, an attractive female sidekick/love interest, foreign travel, imminent danger from a pursuing villain, antagonists who have a disability or genetic disorder, and a 24-hour time frame in which the story takes place.
xxx/ellauri307.html on line 763: löytyi Sysmän kirjaston poistohyllystä. Kirjailijoiden esikoiset tuppaa olemaan omaelämänkerrallisia. Don Rosa ei vaan Brown (ei siis etu- vaan takapuolen värisävy) omisti esikoiskirjansa Digital Fortress 1998 [silloin(kin) olisi Suomen pitänyt hakea Naton jäsenexi hemmetti! Nyt kun Suomi on vihdoin länsiliitossa on Danin kirja jo Sysmän kirjastosta poistettu] iskälle ja äiskylle. Dan oli silloin 34-vuotias. Se alkaa näillä kuvilla ja tunnelmilla [Just a tip: Don't ever take anything from a Dan Brown novel to be based in fact. Digital Fortress is perhaps the stupidest compilation of nonsense ever published]:
xxx/ellauri319.html on line 371: Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), American author and creator of the "hard boiled" detective novel (notably, Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon), contracted tuberculosis during World War I
xxx/ellauri319.html on line 393: Franz Kafka (1883–1924), German-language novelist best known for his novel The Trial, died from tuberculosis
xxx/ellauri319.html on line 455: Maria Polydouri, Greek poet and novelist
xxx/ellauri319.html on line 505: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Neo-romantic Scottish essayist, novelist and poet, is thought to have suffered from tuberculosis during much of his life. He spent the winter of 1887–1888 recuperating from a presumed bout of tuberculosis at Dr. E.L. Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium in Saranac Lake, New York.
xxx/ellauri319.html on line 527: Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938), American author, died of tuberculosis of the brain. His 1929 novel, Look Homeward, Angel, makes several references to the problem of consumption, though Wolfe's condition appeared rather suddenly in 1937.
xxx/ellauri319.html on line 623: Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897), French novelist
xxx/ellauri320.html on line 188: Following the publication of Cartland's unfortunately titled fifth novel, A Virgin In Mayfair, the divorce case came to court in November 1932. After days of lurid headlines, and even more lurid evidence, Cartland won the case.
xxx/ellauri329.html on line 97: In 2004, Harper’s magazine published Natasha, a first short story by a promising 31-year-old Jewish Canadian writer, David Bezmozgis. This memorable tale of a doomed teenage love between Mark, a Jewish Toronto slacker, and his troubled (shiksa) Russian cousin by marriage was eventually released in a collection chronicling the lives of a Latvian immigrant family, not unlike the author’s own. Bezmozgis’s debut became a cult sensation with critics drawing literary comparisons to Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth. The story was subsequently reprinted in 15 languages. After penning two more acclaimed novels, then writing and directing his first feature Victoria Day (SFJFF 2010), Bezmozgis finally brings his modern classic to the big screen in a remarkably assured adaptation that’s both highly provocative and deeply poignant. At the heart of this emotional, coming-of-age drama are the extraordinarily measured performances of Alex Ozerov as Mark and newcomer Sasha K. Gordon as the sexually precocious Natasha, the dark star who forever alters Mark’s staid, suburban existence. Fans of the writer’s original source material will not be disappointed in David Bezmozgis’s haunting narrative of forbidden love caught between the old world and the new, further proof of this talented artist’s notable command of both literature and the cinema. —Thomas Logoreci Note: Mature Content. A New Life in the west means a second chance for precocious Latvian jews.
xxx/ellauri329.html on line 102: Mark Berman, idealistinen juutalainen kanadalainen teini-ikäinen Torontossa, viettelee raivoiseen tapaukseen salaperäisen ulkonäköisen, mutta äärimmäisen häikäilemättömän Natashan, setänsä Fiman uuden venäläisen postimyyntimorsiamen tyttären, joka on elänyt kaksoiselämää seksityöntekijänä lapsuudesta asti. Vaikka alkuperäinen novelli tapahtui 1980-luvulla, Bezmozgis päivitti elokuvan ajallisen ympäristön nykypäivään tutkiakseen nykyteknologian, kuten Internetin, vaikutusta tarinaan. Neil Genzlinger The New York Timesista [jutku sekin takuulla] kirjoitti "[elokuva] luo häiritsevän muotokuvan tytöstä, joka on kasvatuksensa vuoksi muuttunut laskelmoivaksi ja nihilistiseksi, eikä tässä ole mitään röyhkeyttä". The Village Voicen Tatiana Crainen mukaan " Natasha on yhtä houkutteleva ja hämmentävä kuin sen nimihenkilö".
xxx/ellauri329.html on line 302: David Bezmozgis kirjoittaa arvovaltaisella mutta erittäin viihdyttävällä tavalla venäläisten juutalaisten maahanmuuttajien jokapäiväisistä vaivoista Kanadassa. Jeesus rakasti kirjaa. Inspiroimaton novellikirja. Se oli ainakin nopeaa luettavaa. Muistuttaa minua Jeesuksesta Jumalan Pojasta UT:ssä mutta ei niin hyvä. Mikään näistä tarinoista ei ole oma izenäinen seikkailu, ja olen hämmästynyt siitä, miksi tämä kirja voitti niin monta palkintoa.
xxx/ellauri329.html on line 333: Nainen on voittanut Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinnon vain 13 kertaa, eikä venäläinen nainen kertaakaan, ei edes isovenäläinen nainen. Jos haluttaisiin päästä tasoihin, olisi naisen vuoro voittaa seuraavat 98 vuotta ja sitten tulisi venäläisten vuoro. Näin ollen tänäkin vuonna voisi todeta, että nyt olisi taas naisen vuoro. Edellisen kerran nainen palkittiin toissavuonna 2013, kun kanadalainen novellisti Alice Munro nousi Tukholman konserttitalon lavalle vastaanottamaan oman mitalinsa ja sitä edellisen kerran joulukuisesta juhlaseremoniasta sai nauttia saksalainen Herta Müller vuonna 2009.
xxx/ellauri337.html on line 51: Group Portrait with Lady (German: Gruppenbild mit Dame) is a novel by Nobel Prize winning author Heinrich Böll, published in 1971. The novel revolves around a woman named Leni, and her friends, foes, lovers, employers and others and in the end tells the stories of all these people in a small city in western Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. As is usual in Böll's novels, the main focus is the Nazi era, from the perspective of ordinary people. (Wikipedia en)
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 65: Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez oli kolumbialainen kirjailija, novellikirjailija, käsikirjoittaja ja toimittaja. García Márquezia, joka tunnettiin kotimaassaan "Gabona", pidettiin yhtenä 1900-luvun merkittävimmistä kirjailijoista. Vuonna 1982 hänelle myönnettiin Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinto. Samana vuonna New Yorker hylkäsi Gabin tarjoaman novellin. Lukijat eivät tykkäisi sen lopusta. Olikohan se tämä? Hyviä huomioita, lähtökohta on mielenkiintoinen ja teksti kauniisti kirjoitettu, mutta tarina on ohut ja loppu hieman pettymys. Ei yhtään penetraatiota.
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 67: Hän opiskeli Bogotán yliopistossa ja työskenteli myöhemmin toimittajana kolumbialaisessa El Espectadorissa sekä ulkomaisena kirjeenvaihtajana Roomassa, Pariisissa, Barcelonassa, Caracasissa ja New Yorkissa. Hän kirjoitti monia arvostettuja tietokirjoja ja novelleja, mutta tunnetaan parhaiten romaaneistaan, kuten Sata vuotta yksinäisyyttä (1967) ja Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). Hänen teoksensa ovat saavuttaneet merkittävää kriitikoiden suosiota ja laajaa kaupallista menestystä, erityisesti maagiseksi realismiksi leimatun kirjallisuuden popularisoinnissa, joka käyttää maagisia elementtejä ja tapahtumia todellisten kokemusten selittämiseen. Jotkut hänen teoksistaan sijoittuvat kuvitteelliseen kylään nimeltä Macondo, ja suurin osa niistä ilmaisee yksinäisyyden teemaa.
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 106: Memories of My Melancholy Whores on Gabriel García Márquezin novelli. Kirja julkaistiin alun perin espanjaksi vuonna 2004. Vanha toimittaja, joka on juuri juhlinut 90-vuotissyntymäpäiväänsä, etsii seksiä nuoren prostituoidun kanssa, joka myy neitsyytensä auttaakseen perhettään. Seksin sijaan hän löytää rakkauden ensimmäistä kertaa elämässään.
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 118: Tämän novellin kertoo ikääntyvä vuokratyttöjen tuntija. Vietettyään elinikänsä prostituoitujen kanssa (heitä oli tarkalleen 514, ennen kuin sekosin laskuissa) nimetön toimittaja kuvittelee mukavan nuoren neitsyen 90-vuotissyntymäpäiväänsä. Ensimmäisenä monista kerroista hän astuu huoneeseen löytääkseen valitun 14-vuotiaan tytön, joka on ilkialasti ja unessa. Ajan myötä hänellä on pakkomielle hiänestä; hän kirjoittaa kolumneja, jotka saavat lukijansa kiihtymään; suutelee häntä sieltä sun täältä ja lukee hänelle omia juttujasn hänen nukkuessaan. Mutta ei koskaan viimeistele suhdetta seksuaalisesti tai näe häntä hereillä. Koko skenaario, jossa tällainen iäkäs mies halusi nukkua jonkun niin nuoren sängyssä kurttuinen muna puoliveteessä, vain tyrmäsi minut, mutta tämä ei ollut sen suurin ongelma. Yksinkertaisesti sanottuna se oli mielestäni tylsä ja laiska. Kertojan nokkeluus ja viehätys eivät riittäneet tasapainottamaan hänen päämäärättömyytensä yksitoikkoisuutta, ja valitettavasti sen seurauksena en koskaan tuntenut mitään ketään asianosaista kohtaan, en edes pientä nytkähdystä, saati boneria. Olisi voinut toimia paremmin, jos olisin yrittänyt katsoa asioita päähenkilön näkökulmasta, mutta päätin olla tekemättä. En halunnut olla hänen mielessään, hänen housuissaan tai sängyssään. Ehkä siinä oli se vika.
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 261: Mandel takes a brief reference to an anticlerical novel made by one of the characters in A Farewell to Arms and explores the historical and ideological basis for its presence in the novel. In a novel where the Priest is such an important figure, the discussion of the Catholic Church and the way that soldiers would regard religion becomes an important thematic examination. Mandel traces her exploration of this topic, the translation of this obscure novel, and her subsequent revelations, in a way that makes this chapter a study in scholarship and the excavation of an arcane reference.
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 265: Professor Gianfranca Balestra of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan) not only located the book but took the extraordinary trouble of having the whole thing xeroxed for me. Finally, in late 1995, I had the 288 pages of Il maiale nero: Rivelazioni e documenti in my hands. But what does it say? It's all in Italian! The puzzle was partially solved by Enzo Michelangeli: “Il Maiale Nero” is a novel written by Umberto Notari in the early 20th Century. His most famous book is the first he published in 1904, “Quelle signore” (“Those ladies”), about the world of prostitution: it earned him a prosecution for obscenity resulting in a fine, but the book was reprinted and by 1920 had sold more than half million copies.
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 267: Eventually Notari ended up as a fascist, founding the Milanese newspaper “L’Ambrosiano” in 1922, and was appointed to the very institutional “Accademia d’Italia”: just like another firebrand-turned-reactionary, the initiator of the Italian Futuristic movement Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who, as a young, used to call for burning academies down... [signed] Enzo. The Black Pig is not a novel, as Enzo claims, but an energetic, apparently learned, vitriolic attack on the precepts and clergy of the Catholic Church.
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 271: In 1907, Notari (1878–1950) was already a best-selling journalist, polemicist, biographer, novelist, and dramatist. All told, he would write more than thirty books, in six of which he examines the position of women in society, most notably with a 1903 exegesis of prostitution in high and low places called Signore sole: Interviste con le più belle e le più celebri artiste (Single women: Interviews with the most beautiful and famous artists) that sold 21,000 copies and was denounced as immoral and obscene and taken to court, which inevitably increased its readership. It was followed by Quelle signore: Scene di una grande città moderna (Those women: Scenes of a great modern city; ca. 1904), which was set in a house of prostitution and whose main character, Ellere, was recognizably based on Notari’s good friend Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944), an Egyptian-born Italian poet, editor, firebrand, and founder of the Futurist movement.
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 273: Notari’s novel sold 80,000 copies in six months and sales only increased when it was accused of offending public morality; it and its author were acquitted, with Marinetti serving as witness for the defense. “It was Notari’s good fortune,” one scholar writes, “to be accused of obscenity by a court in Parma.... Marinetti, who attended and clearly relished the trial, wrote a detailed account of it for Parisian readers... and then translated his account into Italian, appending a brief, self-congratulatory introduction” (Adamson 97). Marinetti bragged that the trial “gave an extraordinary boost to the book’s sales such that, today, one finds it in all the elegant parlors, in all the bedrooms, under the virginal bedlinens of all the convent-school girls and inside the prayer benches of all the new brides” (qtd. in Adamson 97–98). Notari quickly produced a sequel, Femmina: Scene di una grande capitale (1906), which became a best seller before it too was seized and banned. Notari proudly listed these three books’ sales figures and legal histories in the front matter of his next book, The Black Pig (1907).
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 433: Ernest Hemingway in his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929).
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 435: Virginia Woolf in her novel The Waves (1931).
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 439: Madeleine L'Engle in her novel The Small Rain (1945).
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 451: Walter Tevis in his novel Mockingbird (1980).
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 457: Robert Stone (novelist) in Outerbridge Reach (1992)
xxx/ellauri357.html on line 84: kirjoittamaan kauhunovelliin Keskiyön mato Ikaalisissa, joka oli ilmestynyt scifi-lehti Portissa (3/1987).
xxx/ellauri376.html on line 460: Ronald Hingley, author of Russians and Society and a specialist in Dostoevsky´s works, thought this novel a bad one, whereas Richard Pevear (in the introduction to his and Larissa Volokhonsky´s 2003 translation of the novel), vigorously said it´s a good one. Herman Hesse, another teenage novelist, liked it too. Ei kyllä Doston paikka oli loukossa, eihän sillä edes parta kasvanut kunnolla. Vitun pedofiili.
xxx/ellauri379.html on line 45: Marlon Brandon esittämä eversti Walter E. Kurtz on fiktiivinen hahmo ja Francis Ford Coppolan vuoden 1979 Apocalypse Now -elokuvan päävastustaja. Eversti Kurtz perustuu 1800-luvun norsunluukauppiaan, jota kutsutaan myös Kurtziksi, hahmoon Joseph Conradin vuoden 1899 novellissa Heart of Darkness. 80v oli sujahtanut ilman näkyvämpää edistystä. Eikä seuraavatkaan 50 vuotta ole tuoneet mitään parannusta, pikemminkin päinvastoin.
xxx/ellauri379.html on line 95: Heart of Darkness, novelli, kirjoittaja Joseph Conrad, joka julkaistiin ensimmäisen kerran vuonna 1899 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine ja sitten Conrad's Youth and Two Other Stories (1902). Heart of Darkness tutkii länsimaisen kolonialismin kauhuja ja kuvaa sitä ilmiönä, joka tahraa paitsi sen riistomaita ja kansoja, myös niitä lännessä, jotka edistävät sitä. Vaikka Conradin puoliautoelämäkerrallinen kertomus sai alun perin heikon vastaanoton, siitä on tullut yksi laajimmin analysoiduista englantilaisen kirjallisuuden teoksista. Kriitikot eivät ole aina kohdelleet Pimeyden sydäntä suotuisasti ja moittivat sen epäinhimillistä esittämistä kolonisoituneista kansoista ja sen halveksivaa kohtelua naisia ​​kohtaan. Siitä huolimatta Heart of Darkness on kestänyt, ja nykyään se on modernistinen mestariteos, joka liittyy suoraan postkolonialistiseen todellisuuteen.
xxx/ellauri379.html on line 109: Vastaanotto. Heart of Darkness julkaistiin vuonna 1902 novellina Youth: And Two Other Stories -kokoelmassa, joka sisälsi kaksi muuta Conradin tarinaa. Mutta teksti ilmestyi ensimmäisen kerran vuonna 1899 Blackwoodin Edinburgh Magazinessa , kirjallisessa kuukausilehdessä sen tuhannessa numerossa, ja sen toimittaja kutsui Conradin osallistumaan. Conrad epäröi tehdä niin, ehkä hyvästä syystä – vaikka Pimeyden sydän sai tunnustusta omassa kirjallisuudessaan, tarina ei saavuttanut minkäänlaista suosittua menestystä. Näin oli myös silloin, kun se julkaistiin vuonna 1902; Heart of Darkness sai vähiten huomiota kolmesta mukana olleesta tarinasta, ja kokoelma nimettiin samannimisenä kokonaan toisen tarinan mukaan. Conrad ei elänyt tarpeeksi kauan nähdäkseen sen olevan suosittu menestys.
xxx/ellauri379.html on line 111: Heart of Darkness alkoi saada akateemista huomiota ensimmäisen kerran 1940- ja 50-luvuilla, jolloin kirjallisuustutkimusta hallitsi psykologinen lähestymistapa kirjallisuuden tulkintaan. Pimeyden sydän ymmärrettiin sen mukaisesti universaalisti ihmisen sisäisyyden tutkimiseksi – sen turmeltuvuudesta, saavuttamattomuudesta ja sille luontaisesta pimeydestä. Näistä kritiikistä tietysti puuttui jotain oleellista: kaikenlainen novellin kolonialismin sanoman tarkastelu tai sen Afrikan ja sen ihmisten käyttö epäselvänä taustana, jota vasten tutkia valkoisen psyyken "monimutkaisuutta.'
xxx/ellauri380.html on line 444: Lev Navrozov, a scholar who immigrated from the Soviet Union in 1972 and who now writes for The Yale Literary Magazine, which is owned by his son Andrei, went even further than Professor Pipes. Mr. Navrozov condemns the Solzhenitsyn novel as ''a new Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
xxx/ellauri385.html on line 129: Apollinaria Prokofyevna Suslova (venäjä : Аполлина́рия Проко́фьевна Су́слова),​​​ 1839–1918, Vasily Rozanovin vaimo ja Venäjän ensimmäisen naislääkärin Nadezhda Suslovan sisar. Häntä pidetään prototyyppinä useille naishahmoille Dostojevskin romaaneissa, kuten Polina pelissä Peluri, Nastasja Filipovna elokuvassa Idiootti, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova elokuvassa Rikos ja rangaistus, Lizaveta Nikolaevna elokuvassa The Possessed, sekä Katerina ja Grushenka elokuvassa The Brothers Karamazov. Suslovaa on usein kuvattu femme fatale -naisena. Fjodor Dostojevski kutsui häntä yhdeksi aikansa merkittävimmistä naisista. Hänen omia teoksiaan ovat novelli Pokuda, joka julkaistiin Mihail Dostojevskin Vremya - lehdessä vuonna 1861, Do svadby (1863), ja omaelämäkerrallinen Chuzhaya i Svoy, joka julkaistiin vuonna 1928.
xxx/ellauri387.html on line 215: When the film Evil (2003), an adaptation of Guillou's autobiographical novel from 1981, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 Guillou was still listed as a terrorist by the US government because of the IB affair. Or was it the CIA affair? "Jamista" on täydentävä paasaus albumissa 301.
xxx/ellauri388.html on line 68: Hänellä oli vakinainen työ Suomen Kuvalehden toimittajana vuoteen 1938 saakka, jolloin hän jäi vapaaksi kirjailijaksi. 1930-luvulla hän kirjoitti romaaneja, novelleja, satuja, runoja ja kokonaista 26 näytelmää.
xxx/ellauri394.html on line 381: Kyynisempi puolisukeltaja Akutagawa löytyy albumin suikkitaulukosta maanmiehensä Kawabatan ohella. Hänet tunnettiin myös pseudonyymillä Chōkōdō Shujin. Hän kehitti voimakkaasti japanilaisten novellien tyyliä ja kirjoitti yksityiskohtaisia kuvauksia ihmisluonnon nurjista puolista. Kertomus Rashōmon (1915) perustuu Heian-kauden kauhukertomukseen, ja hän soveltaa siihen aikansa psykologista kerrontaa. Vuonna 1921 suosionsa huipulla Akutagawa luopui täysipäiväisestä kirjailijantyöstä ja lähti kirjeenvaihtajaksi Kiinaan. Hän stressaantui, sairastui eikä enää toipunut entiselleen. Palattuaan Japaniin hän julkaisi kuuluisimman kertomuksensa "Metsikössä", (Yabu no naka) vuonna 1922. Suuri osa Akutagawan tuotannosta on vahvasti omaelämäkerrallista. Hän tsemppasi horjuvan fyysisen kunnon ja mielenterveyden kanssa. Akutagawa kärsi harhoista ja syömishäiriöistä, yritti itsemurhaa pari kertaa ja onnistui siinä lopulta vuonna 1927, vain 35-vuotiaana. Tsemppi kannatti! Akira Kurosawan läpimurtoelokuva Rashomon – paholaisen temppeli perustuu Akutagawan novelleihin Rashōmon ja Metsikössä. Novellissa Rashōmon on Kioton kaupungin eteläinen portti, kun taas elokuvassa se on temppeli. Nimestään huolimatta elokuvan juoni perustuu lähes täysin Metsikössä-novelliin.
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