Archive for the ‘ classics ’ Category
Ferdydurke is in a sense an examination – or collection of examinations – of how meaning is generated and imposed by preexistent structures and forms; from the cohesion of a literary narrative right down to the semiotics of our every gesture and expression. [ READ MORE ]
Henry James famously included War and Peace in his list of ‘big, loose, baggy monsters’, reflecting a wider shift in critical values away from the panoramic vision of the realist novel towards the well-wrought formal intricacy of the modernist novel. A major background to this shift is the more complicated relationship modern authors perceived between [ READ MORE ]
What is it that makes Kafka’s fiction so important? There are more readily identifiable features in other major modern authors that make it more straightforward – perhaps due to a sensibility their work has helped shape – to account for the esteem in which they are held. The face-melting prose of Nabokov or Henry James; [ READ MORE ]
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