 Marin Preda Marin Preda is born on August 5, 1922, in Silistea Gumesti, Teleorman. He was a famous Romanian novelist.
Biography and Career :
His literary debut is marked by a sketch in "The Time"(newspaper). In 1948 he publishes his first book: The short-stories volume( "The meeting between the Lands", "The Developement", "The Daring", "Dark Windows").
In 1955 he writes "Morometii",the former volum.... |
 Marcel Proust Marcel Proust (full name Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust) was born on July 10, 1871 in Auteuil, France as son of the doctor Achille-Adrien Proust and Jeanne Clemence Weil. He was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of "À la recherche du temps perdu" (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of... |
 Yukio Mishima Yukio Mishima (real name Kimitake Hiraoka) was born on January 14, 1925 in Shinjuku, Tokyo. He was a Japanese author and playwright.
Biography and Career :
Yukio Mishima was brought up by his grandmother, Natsu. While childhood he read books in German and French.
His grandmother educated him in a certain strange way that set a print upon his literary work, especially his attraction to... |
 The Character of Jane Eyre by Herminne Tonita -
Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre is one of the best English works of art of the 19th century. The plot of Jane Eyre follows the form of a bildungsroman, which is a novel that tells the story of a child's maturation and focuses on the emotions and experiences that accompany and incite their growth to adulthood. From these experiences Jane becomes the mature woman who... |
 The Strange Function of the Picture in Oscar Wilde's Novel : The Picture of Dorian Gray by Herminne Tonita -
Considered by the critics of the time to be an illustration of his aesthetic views and a celebration of vice, Oscar Wilde's only novel " The Picture of Dorian Gray " surprises the modern reader because of his moral ending and obvious plea against a Parnasian or Epicurean way of life. The novel builds on popular psychological melodrama and the pursuit of hedonism... |
 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Herminne Tonita -
Thomas Hardy is a well-known Victorian writer who presented the tragedies of the countryside. The fact he was first an arquitect and then turned to writing made of his novels a special composition where monuments played an important part. The natural settings, surrounding buildings or people always receive special attention in matching the spirit of the character.
"Tess... |
 Robinson Crusoe vs Lord of The Flies by Herminne Tonita -
When we read "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe and " Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, we come to notice that the latter novel, written in the XX th century, appears as a reversed "Robinson Crusoe", as the children, who find themselves on the dessert island destroy civilisation, do not continue it.
Both novels present the life of persons living on dessert islands,... |
 Portrait of a Lady by Henry James by Herminne Tonita -
Henry James' s novel "The Portrait of a Lady" first appeared in serial and was published as a book in 1881. Regarded as a major achievement of the writer " The Portrait of a Lady " is one of the best novels of modern literature.
In it, Henry James demonstrates that he had learnt well from his European masters. Turgheniev had thought him how to use a single character,... |
 The Imaginative Pressure In The Great Gatsby by Cristina Nuta -
The real subject of the novel is the opportunity wealth provides for the realization of the Good Life and the necessity for what Fitzgerald calls 'a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life' if people are to imagine the Good Life clearly enough to understand what they have to opportunity to achieve. But the really convincing evidence of the imaginative pressure under... |
 Oliver Twist Summary by Herminne Tonita -
The main character of the novel is Oliver Twist, whose mother, Agnes, died giving birth to him in a Poor's House. The only thing she left for him was a locket with her name inscribed. Oliver is given to Mrs Mann to take care of him, together with two more orphans. Mrs Mann is paid to take care of the boys, but these live in harsh conditions. Mr Bumble is the town beadle,... |
 The Language in Oliver Twist and its Symbolic Meaning by Herminne Tonita -
Charles Dickens knows how to give his novel a social direction, how to deal with issues like the lack of confidence in public situations, as he knows how to underline the action and the gravity of the tone. He has the strenght to raise without difficulty all sorts of problems, to handle a campaign against injustice, using his novels as a way to promote his beliefs.
His... |
 The symbolism of Stonehenge and the nature in Tess by Thomas Hardy by Cristina Nuta -
Tess' final journey is a symbolic one through the world of sounds, colours and lights. Hardy manages to create not a photograph of the landscape, but a certain mood of the characters, using different elements of nature: the night, the roads, the birds' songs, the beautiful colours of landscapes.
Here, Stonehenge, a collection of giant stones arranged in a circular form... |
 Limitations in The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James by Cristina Nuta -
Henry James'The Portrait of a Lady' is a novel about life-choices. It is a meditation on the theme of marriage and whether there is life outside of marriage. The protagonist, Isabel Archer, sets out to find out and ends up throwing her life away on the first person she meets outside her sheltered world. Isabel chooses to marry someone she doesn't understand, because he... |
 Strengths of the multiple points of view in The Portrait of a Lady by Cristina Nuta -
The Portrait of a Lady is one of the greatest novels of modern literature, written by Henry James, and usually regarded as a major achievement of its author's early period of fiction writing. In the book, Henry James demonstrates that he has learnt well from two Europeans masters of the novel: George Eliot and Turgenef.
The first one teaches him the importance of fighting... |
 Love and Death in the American Novel by Cristina Nuta -
Yet Daisy is, in another sense, a transitional figure, the hinge upon the American adoration of pure womanhood swings over to reveal its underside of fear and contempt. The first notable anti-virgin of the American fiction, the prototype of the blasphemous portraits of the Fair Goddess, is quite deliberately called Daisy - after James's misunderstood American Girl. She is,... |
 Jacob - A Character in Fade Shades by Herminne Tonita -
Daughter of Sir Leslie Stephan, a writer himself, she was considered by some critics the most important of English novelists; she was a tireless experimenter in whose hands the novel tended to become something different from a mere fictional narrative of characters.
Published in 1922, after Virginia Woolf had written tow more novels and the sketches volume "Monday... |
