“The Bluest eye” by Toni Morrison is a book that focuses on the tragic effects of the impositions of the middle-class white race on the rest of the population, particularly the American ideals of beauty. Facing this heavy burden is Pecola, an eleven-year-old African-American girl in search of female identity. Continue reading
“Wuthering Heights” is a novel by the author Emily Bronte. She wrote it through 1845 and 1846 and then first published in 1847. Many people have not only read the book but have also liked it. This is due to the contradicting ideas that are also entertaining in the book such as love, classism, and revenge, just to name a few. These are ideas that everyone reading the novel can relate to because they are part of our reality as a people. These and many other truths are greatly represented throughout Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Realistic representation of ideas is a very good aspect of any novel. Thus, more and more people should yearn to readers of this wonderful book. Continue reading
First published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice is considered one of the best and most influential of Jane Austen’s novels. It inspired countless adaptations and reinterpretations over the years and is a classic example of a romantic novel of manners. It provides its readers with a unique glimpse into the intimate lives of the upper classes of the early 19th-century English society. Even though it is set in a time very different from our own, its main themes remain relevant even two centuries later. Continue reading
Tristan is a novella by Thomas Mann that is a highly ironic version of the traditional German myth, Tristan and Iseult, which has inspired countless different variations since the early twelfth century. The novella actually references one of these variations found in an opera by Richard Wagner. The novella juxtaposes the Wagner version’s heroic characters with flawed counterparts. It also delves heavily into the topic of psychology as most of the novella takes place in a sanatorium. Continue reading
The whole life of Charles Baudelaire consisted of continuous inconsistencies. His father was thirty-odd years older than his mother. Charles himself, who had been searching for and demanding love from the people around him all his life, could not give love even to his own mother. Subsequently, Baudelaire wrote: “As a child, I had two conflicting feelings in my heart: the horror of life and the delight of life.” This duality, obviously, became the hallmark of his poetry, filled with contrasts and oxymorons. Even the name of the collection, Flowers of Evil, which brought Bodler worldwide fame, is nothing but an oxymoron – a technique that combines incompatible concepts.
The poem “Hymn to Beauty” by Charles Baudelaire is best known in the translation of Ellis (the pseudonym of Lev Kobylinsky, a symbolist poet of the early twentieth century). It is the analysis of this translation that will be carried out.
History of creation
The tale was first published in 1838 in the collection “Fairy Tales Told for Children” (first issue of the second volume). It marks an important milestone in the work of Andersen: for the first time when creating a literary fairy tale, he did not work with any particular folklore or literary source, completely relying on his own imagination and literary erudition.
History of creation
The tale “The Nightingale” was written in 1843 and published in the collection ” New Fairy Tales”.
History of creation
The fairy tale “The Snow Queen” was written in 1844 and published in the collection “New Fairy Tales” (1845). The collection appeared very successfully on December 21, on the eve of Christmas.
History of creation
The tale was first published in 1861. Being at that time a recognized classic of the genre of author’s literary fairy tales, Andersen continued to amaze his readers with the simplicity and at the same time the unexpectedness of fairy-tale stories he had invented.