Tato série se ponoří do fascinujícího světa literárního modernismu, éry plné experimentů a revolučních myšlenek. Zkoumá klíčová díla a autory, kteří zpochybnili tradiční formy vyprávění a narušili zavedené společenské normy. Čtenáři objeví hluboké zkoumání lidské psychiky, fragmentované reality a hledání nových výrazových prostředků. Je to esenciální průvodce pro pochopení jednoho z nejvlivnějších uměleckých hnutí 20. století.
Filled with insights into the works of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Rhys, and John Dos Passos, this is a provocative new reading of the relationship between modernist literature and the development of celebrity culture in the early twentieth century
Focusing on themes of exile and identity, this collection of short stories presents a diverse range of Jewish characters navigating life in foreign lands. Set throughout the twentieth century, the tales feature a rabbi in New England, retirees longing for Brooklyn, and a boy grappling with the Holocaust at summer camp. The narratives delve into personal struggles, such as an American soldier's grief and a divorced woman's quest for meaning in Germany. The stories poignantly explore the challenges faced by elderly Jews adjusting to life in Florida, highlighting memory and mortality.
Deciphers the complicated ways in which Faulkner put himself forth through written performances and displays based in and expressive of his emotional biography. schovat popis