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Article by Eric Margolis from Metropolis Japan . Osamu Dazai (1909-1948) is one of the best-known authors in Japanese literature, especially for his soul-crushingly depressing novels like “No Longer Human“ and “The Setting Sun.” Dazai had a troubled life and struggled to gain an audience. His writing is defined by relentless self-examination and constant estrangement.
Hollywood actors and famous Western writers and directors love Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky… and not only. Article by ALEXANDRA GUZEVA of Russia Beyond.
Here’s a list of public domain books 2022 put together by Namera Tanjeem of Book Riot. Includes Winnie the Pooh, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather and more.
My mother was always prepared for an emergency. I suppose this stemmed from being a child who witnessed the atrocities and hardships of the Japanese occupation of Guam during World
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.
EXCERPT: Dickinson had chosen me, or recognized me, as I sat there on the sofa. We were an elite, companions in invisibility, a fact known only to us, which each corroborated for the other. In the world, we were nobody.
SPEAKING DANTE will be hosted and live-streamed by the Cinema La Compagnia from 7pm on September 13 to 7pm on September 14.
Source: Speaking Dante: a 24-hour live reading marathon of The Divine Comedy