Literary-Blog
Truth and Power
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ‘The Oak and the Calf’ is not just a memoir—it’s a manifesto of resistance. Written during his exile in the 1970s, the book chronicles the Nobel laureate’s decades-long...
Truth and Power
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ‘The Oak and the Calf’ is not just a memoir—it’s a manifesto of resistance. Written during his exile in the 1970s, the book chronicles the Nobel laureate’s decades-long...
What was the Renaissance?
During the Harlem Renaissance, Aaron and Alta Douglas's Harlem apartment was one of the primary gathering spots for artists, writers, and poets. When asked, What was the Renaissance to you?...
What was the Renaissance?
During the Harlem Renaissance, Aaron and Alta Douglas's Harlem apartment was one of the primary gathering spots for artists, writers, and poets. When asked, What was the Renaissance to you?...
Not Understood
Thomas Bracken, a New Zealand poet, was born in New Zealand in 1841. Bracken composed one version of the country's national anthem. Here are a few stanzas from his poem, Not...
Not Understood
Thomas Bracken, a New Zealand poet, was born in New Zealand in 1841. Bracken composed one version of the country's national anthem. Here are a few stanzas from his poem, Not...
"He was a thoroughly intractable person.."
“Mr. Prokharchin” by Dostoevsky “He was a thoroughly intractable person, a man of few words who had no time for small talk. He was not fond of those who proffered...
"He was a thoroughly intractable person.."
“Mr. Prokharchin” by Dostoevsky “He was a thoroughly intractable person, a man of few words who had no time for small talk. He was not fond of those who proffered...
"It was a lovely night...bright and starry.."
The novel White Nights is set in St Petersburg in the mid-1800s. The novel’s main themes—dreams, solitude, introspection and love—are communicated from the point of view of a young man, who has...
"It was a lovely night...bright and starry.."
The novel White Nights is set in St Petersburg in the mid-1800s. The novel’s main themes—dreams, solitude, introspection and love—are communicated from the point of view of a young man, who has...
"In the doorway,...stood a peasant with a big b...
Nineteenth-century Russian Literature, like a perfectly chilled glass of one hundred and fifty year-old Chardonnay, is to be observed, inhaled, then slowly savored to fully appreciate how carefully selected words...
"In the doorway,...stood a peasant with a big b...
Nineteenth-century Russian Literature, like a perfectly chilled glass of one hundred and fifty year-old Chardonnay, is to be observed, inhaled, then slowly savored to fully appreciate how carefully selected words...