Writers their lives and works

Table of Contents: “…Vladimir Nabokov ; John Steinbeck ; George Orwell ; Pablo Neruda ; Graham Greene ; Jean-Paul Sartre ; Samuel Beckett ; Naguib Mahfouz ; Albert Camus ; Aimé Césaire ; Dylan Thomas ; Marguerite Duras ; Saul Bellow ; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ; Primo Levi ; Jack Kerouac ; Italo Calvino ; Günter Grass ; Gabriel García Márquez ; Maya Angelou ; Milan Kundera ; Chinua Achebe -- Writing today. José Saramago ; Derek Walcott ; Toni Morrison ; Alice Munro ; Nawal El Saadawi ; John Updike ; Cormac McCarthy ; Seamus Heaney ; J.M. …”


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Portuguese writers

Table of Contents: “…/ Joseph Abraham Levi -- Mário de Sá-Carneiro (1890-1916) / Fernando Arenas -- José Saramago (1922- ) / José N. Ornelas -- Jorge de Sena (1919-1978) / Gilda Santos -- Salette Tavares (1922-1994) / Rui Torres -- Miguel Torga (Adolfo Correia da Rocha) (1907-1995) / Maria do Amparo Tavares Maleval -- Cesário Verde (1855-1886) / Marina Machado Rodrigues -- Gil Vicente (1465-between 1536 and 1540) / Reinhard Krüger -- Appendix 1: Medieval Galician-Portuguese Poetry / Leodegário A. de Azevedo Filho -- Appendix 2: Mariana Alcoforado, the Portuguese Nun / Anna Klobucka -- Appendix 3: The Three Marias: A landmark case in Portuguese literary history / Anna Klobucka.…”


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Writers : their lives and works

Table of Contents: “…Vladimir Nabokov ; John Steinbeck ; George Orwell ; Pablo Neruda ; Graham Greene ; Jean-Paul Sartre ; Samuel Beckett ; Naguib Mahfouz ; Albert Camus ; Aimé Césaire ; Dylan Thomas ; Marguerite Duras ; Saul Bellow ; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ; Primo Levi ; Jack Kerouac ; Italo Calvino ; Günter Grass ; Gabriel García Márquez ; Maya Angelou ; Milan Kundera ; Chinua Achebe -- Writing today. José Saramago ; Derek Walcott ; Toni Morrison ; Alice Munro ; Nawal El Saadawi ; John Updike ; Cormac McCarthy ; Seamus Heaney ; J.M. …”


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Cultural amnesia : necessary memories from history and the arts by James, Clive, 1939-2019

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald -- Gustave Flaubert -- Sigmund Freud -- Egon Friedell -- François Furet -- Charles de Gaulle -- Edward Gibbon -- Terry Gilliam -- Josef Goebbels -- Witold Gombrowicz -- William Hazlitt -- Hegel -- Heinrich Heine -- Adolf Hitler -- Ricarda Huch -- Ernst Jünger -- Franz Kafka -- John Keats -- Leszek Kolakowski -- Alexandra Kollontai -- Heda Margolius Kovaly -- Karl Kraus -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg -- Norman Mailer -- Nadezhda Mandelstam -- Golo Mann -- Heinrich Mann -- Michael Mann -- Thomas Mann -- Mao Zedong -- Chris Marker -- John McCloy -- Zinka Milanov -- Czeslaw Milosz -- Eugenio Montale -- Montesquieu -- Alan Moorehead -- Paul Muratov -- Lewis Namier -- Grigory Ordzhonokidze -- Octavio Paz -- Alfred Polgar -- Beatrix Potter -- Jean Prévost -- Marcel Proust -- Edgar Quinet -- Marcel Reich-Ranicki -- Jean-François Revel -- Richard Rhodes -- Rainer Maria Rilke -- Virginio Rognoni -- Ernesto Sabato -- Edward Said -- Sainte-Beuve -- José Saramago -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Erik Satie -- Arthur Schnitzler -- Sophie Scholl -- Wolf Jobst Siedler -- Manès Sperber -- Tacitus -- Margaret Thatcher -- Henning von Tresckow -- Leon Trotsky -- Karl Tschuppik -- Dubravka Ugresic -- Miguel de Unamuno -- Pedro Henriquez Ureña -- Paul Valéry -- Mario Vargas Llosa -- Evelyn Waugh -- Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Isoroku Yamamoto -- Aleksandr Zinoviev -- Carl Zuckmayer -- Stefan Zweig -- Coda : Kun-Han-Su : Eckstein and the Egyptian Kinghopper.…”


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Spanish and Portuguese literatures and their times : the Iberian peninsula by Moss, Joyce, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…CONTENTS BY TITLE : Back room, The / Carmen Martín Gaite -- Ballad of Dogs' Beach / José Cardoso Pires -- Baltasar and Blimunda / José Saramago -- Beside the River Sar / Rosalía de Castro -- Bohemian lights / Ramón María del Valle-Inclán -- Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio, The / Don Juan Manuel -- "By the Rivers of Babylon" / Jorge de Sena -- La Celestina : tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea / Fernando de Rojas -- "The dark night" and other poems / Saint John of the Cross -- Disenchantments of love, The / María de Zayas y Sotomayor -- Don Juan Tenorio / José Zorrilla -- Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- Doomed love (A family memoir) / Camilo Castelo Branco -- "An essay on woman, or, physiological and historical defense of the fair sex" / Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro -- Family of Pascual Duarte, The / Camilo José Cela -- Fields of Castile / Antonio Machado -- Fortunata and Jacinta : two stories of married women / Benito Pérez Galdós -- Fuente ovejuna / Lope de Vega -- House of Bernarda Alba, The / Federico García Lorca -- House of Ulloa, The / Emilia Pardo Bazan.…”


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Writers : who changed history

Table of Contents: “…Zora Neale Hurston ; Vladimir Nabokov ; Richard Wright ; John Steinbeck ; George Orwell ; Pablo Neruda ; Graham Greene ; Jean-Paul Sartre ; Samuel Beckett ; Naguib Mahfouz ; Albert Camus ; Aimé Césaire ; Dylan Thomas ; Marguerite Duras ; Saul Bellow ; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ; Primo Levi ; Jack Kerouac ; Italo Calvino ; James Baldwin ; Günter Grass ; Gabriel García Márquez ; Maya Angelou ; Milan Kundera ; Chinua Achebe ; Directory -- Writing today. José Saramago ; Derek Walcott ; Toni Morrison ; Alice Munro ; Nawal El Saadawi ; John Updike ; Cormac McCarthy ; Seamus Heaney ; J.M. …”


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Words without borders : the world through the eyes of writers : an anthology

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A companion to magical realism

Table of Contents: “…Hart -- History and the fantastic in José Saramago's fiction / David Henn -- Magical-realist elements in José Eustasio Rivera's The vortex / Humberto Núñez-Faraco -- Beyond magical realism in The red of his shadow by Mayra Montero / Alejandra Rengifo -- Cops, robbers, and anarcho-terrorists: crime and magical realism's Jewish question / Michael Berkowitz -- Flights of fancy: Angela Carter's transgressive narratives / Sarah Sceats -- pt. 3. …”


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Novelists and novels by Bloom, Harold

Table of Contents: “…-- Ernest Hemingway : The sun also rises, A farewell to arms, The old man and the sea -- Vladimir Nabokov : Lolita -- André Malraux : Man's fate -- John Steinbeck : The grapes of wrath, Of mice and men -- Nathanael West : Miss Lonelyhearts -- George Orwell : 1984, Animal farm -- Graham Greene : Brighton rock -- Robert Penn Warren : All the king's men -- Samuel Beckett : Molloy, Malone Dies, The unnamable -- Richard Wright : Native sun -- William Golding : The lord of the flies -- Albert Camus : The stranger, The plague -- Bernard Malamud : The fixer, The tenants -- Ralph Waldo Ellison : The invisible man -- Saul Bellow : Herzog -- Walker Percy : The moviegoer -- Carson McCullers : The heart is a lonely hunger, The ballad of the sad café -- Anthony Burgess : The Enderby cycle, Nothing like the sun -- Iris Murdock : The good apprentice -- William Gaddis : The recognitions -- Jose Saramago : The gospel according to Jesus Christ -- Norman Mailer : Ancient evenings -- James Baldwin : The fire next time, The price of the ticket, Go tell it on the mountain -- Flannery O'Connor : The violent bear it away -- Gabriel García Márquez : One hundred years of solitude, Love in the time of the cholera -- Ursula K. …”


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Novelists and novels by Bloom, Harold

Table of Contents: “…/ William Faulkner -- The son also rises; A farewell to arms; The old man and the sea / Ernest Hemingway -- Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov -- Man's fate / André Malraux -- The grapes of wrath; Of mice and men / John Steinbeck -- Miss lonelyhearts / Nathaniel West -- 1984; Animal farm / George Orwell -- Brighton rock / Graham Greene -- All the king's men / Robert Penn Warren -- Molloy; Malone dies; The unnamable / Samuel Beckett -- Native son / Richard Wright -- The lord of the flies / William Golding -- The stranger; The plague / Albert Camus -- The fixer; The tenants / Bernard Malamud -- The invisible man / Ralph Waldo Ellison -- Herzog / Saul Bellow -- The moviegoer / Walker Percy -- The heart is a lonely hunter; The ballad of the sad café / Carson McCullers -- The enderby cycle; Nothing like the sun / Anthony Burgess -- The good apprentice / Iris Murdoch -- The recognitions / William Gaddis -- The gospel according to Jesus Christ / José Saramago -- Ancient evenings / Norman Mailer -- The fire next time; The price of the ticket; Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin -- The violent bear it away / Flannery O'Connor -- One hundred years of solitude; Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel García Márquez -- The left hand of darkness / Ursula K. …”


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La contagion des imaginaires : l'héritage camusien dans le récit d'épidémie contemporain by Palud, Aurélie

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The literature book

Table of Contents: “…Salinger ; Death is a gang-boss aus Deutschland : Poppy and memory, Paul Celan ; I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me : Invisible man, Ralph Ellison ; Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins; my sin, my soul / Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov ; He leaves no stone unturned, and no maggot lonely : Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett ; It is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other : The temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima ; He was beat, the root, the soul of beatific : On the road, Jack Kerouac ; What is good among one people is an abomination with others : Things fall apart, Chinua Achebe ; Even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings : The tin drum, Günter Grass ; I think there's just one kind of folks: folks : To kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee ; Nothing is lost if one has the courage to proclaim that all is lost and we must begin anew : Hopscotch, Julio Cortá́zar ; He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt : Catch-22, Joseph Heller ; Everyday miracles and the living past : Death of a naturalist, Seamus Heaney ; There's got to be something wrong with us; to do what we did : In cold blood, Truman Capote ; Ending at every moment but never ending its ending : One hundred years of solitude : Gabriel García Márquez -- Contemporary literature. 1970-present : Our history is an aggregate of last moments : Gravity's rainbow, Thomas Pynchon ; You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel : If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino ; To understand just one life you have to swallow the world : Midnight's children, Salman Rushdie ; Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another : Beloved, Toni Morrison ; Heaven and earth were in turmoil : Red Sorghum, Mo Yan ; You could not tell a story like this; a story like this you could only feel : Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey ; A historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment : Omeros, Derek Walcott ; I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy : American psycho, Bret Easton Ellis ; Quitely they moved down the calm and sacred river : A suitable boy, Vikram Seth ; It's a very Greek idea, and a profound one; beauty is terror : The secret history, Donna Tartt ; What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world : The wind-up bird chronicle, Haruki Murakami ; Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are : Blindness, José Saramago ; English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa : Disgrace, J.M. …”


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