Literature Blog
Without literature, life is hell.
-Charles Bukowski
From Dostoevsky to Dickenson, from the Bronte sisters to the Grimm brothers, from Shakespeare to Kafka, lets dive into these timeless stories and find out the secret ingredients that make them so inexpressibly unforgettable. This is a place to find all your favorite authors and drown in all the symbolism and similes. So dust off your old copies and bring your treasured hardcovers. Here’s your sign to study Literature!
LIST OF POSTS
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“Education Has Done Me Great Harm—” Kafka’s Diaries 1910
It’s a Sunday. 19 July. But the year reads 1910. Education Has Done Me Great Harm… [S]lept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life. When I think about it, I must say that my education has done me great harm in some…
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Beautiful, Messy, Kind Books About Girlhood
Books about Girlhood Poetry that deals with the idea of girlhood and books about girlhood, whether it be the innocent kind, the romantic kind, even the violent kind, gets a lot of attention. The girls want to read it, the…
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As Artists, How To Be Original & Create Something So ‘You’?
“I must Create a System or be enslav’d by another Man’sI will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create.” -William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion There are a lot of copies going around in the…
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The Remarkable Life of Virginia Woolf and Feminist Literary Criticism
I’m fascinated by the life of Virginia Woolf. Her thinking and philosophy about the feminist literary criticism is something to surely take inspiration from. Such work, such philosophies, and…yeah, such a tragic end. Virginia Woolf was born in 1882 to…
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Hell Is Other People (But So Is Heaven)—Sartre’s No Exit & The Good Place
INEZ: Wait! You’ll see how simple it is. Childishly simple. Obviously there aren’t any physical torments—you agree, don’t you? And yet we’re in hell. And no one else will come here. We’ll stay in this room together, the three of…
