Depending on your point of view, literature reduced to tweets is either comic or horrifying.
Also posted in Austen (Jane), Flaubert (Gustave), Forster (E.M.), Milton (John), Proust (Marcel), Salinger (J. D.), Steinbeck (John) | Tagged Catcher in the Rye, E. M. Forster, Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, Howards End, In Search of Lost Time, J. D. Salinger, Jane Austen, John Milton, John Steinbeck, Madame Bovary, Marcel Proust, Metamorphosis, Of Mice and Men, Paradise Lost, Pride and Prejudice, Trial |
Israeli author Amos Oz believes that literature can provide “a partial and limited immunity to fanaticism.”
Apparently Anders Breivik was very well read and he mentions George Orwell, Franz Kafka, and Ayn Rand. What I find striking about them on the list is that they all articulate high levels of paranoia.
Also posted in Beowulf Poet, Dexter (tv), Orwell (George), Rand (Ayn) | Tagged 1984, Anders Breivik, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Terrorism, Trial |
At this time of year, I sometimes wonder why I signed up for this gig. Stacks of ungraded essays are strewn “far and wee” across my study, and only the knowledge that I have completed my student essays in the past assures me that I will make it through this batch. In my hour of [...]
