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Great Literary Works

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a literary documentation, essay, creative works and student paper.

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  • New Nabokov Novel: The Original Of Laura

    Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 08:36 in vladimir nabokov

    In an exclusive interview, the son of novelist Vladimir Nabokov tells Newsnight why he is defying his father's wishes to posthumously publish the controversial writer's final novel.After the death of the notorious libertine Lord Byron, who was mad, b...

  • Translation and Intertextuality

    Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 08:28 in literary translation, literary discourse

    Intertextuality, something which covers many areas of texts, including many that some people would refer to as 'context', is clearly important for translations. History, literature, science are important for interpretations and every translation is b...

  • Mishima Yukio: The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea

    Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 07:32 in asian literature, japan author

    Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea is a short novel but, due to its tight plot, brevity is not an issue. Published in 1963, seven years before he committed ritual suicide, the novel explores motivation and the factors that ...

  • Is Scandinavian literature gloomy?

    Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 07:25 in scandinavian literature, literary issue

    I read on another thread somewhere that Scandinavian literature tends to be gloomy, depressing, or dark. I wonder whether this is because Scandinavian authors sit brooding in log cabins wondering whether to commit suicide, or to murder someone and th...

  • Short Story Competition 2009

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 16:00 in writing competition

    Please vote for the story you like best to determine the winner of Literature Network Short Story Competition 2009.Discussion of the stories, to avoid influencing the outcome of the poll, are not allowed.If contributers would like to ask questions, t...

  • The Art of Fiction: Interview with James Ellroy

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 15:46 in interview with author

    Interviewed by Nathaniel RichThe Paris Review, Issue 190, Fall 2009INTERVIEWERYou’ve called Dashiell Hammett “tremendously great” and Raymond Chandler “egregiously overrated.” Why?ELLROYChandler wrote the kind of guy that he wanted to be, H...

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A great blog with thorough information about the Sufi path

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