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New Nabokov Novel: The Original Of Laura
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
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
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?
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
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
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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