Tag: literature history

Moby Dick: An American Allegory

A look at US society through the prism of Moby...

Terenci: la fabulación infinita

An account of the life and work of the charismatic...

The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza: Writing for Emancipation

Between 1967 and 1976, Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-76) wrote...

Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel,...

Odyssey: Behind the Myth

Who was Homer, and what is the meaning of The...

Wuthering Heights: Love, Hate and Vengeance

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most...

Hamlet Within

A radical cinematic investigation into the myth of Hamlet, the...

Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from...

Heidi's Alpine Dream

An account of the life and work of the Swiss...

Prisoner C33

Reading Gaol, England, 1896. Prisoner C33, starving and thin, unable...

100 Years of Ulysses

Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish...

Killer, Trader and Psychopath: The America of Bret Easton Ellis

In 1991, American Psycho, the third novel by controversial writer...

The Capote Tapes

A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84)...

Wonderland: From JM Barrie to JRR Tolkien

An extraordinary variety of writers, who often suffered terrible adversity...

The Emma Bovary Trial

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80)...

Ernest Hemingway: 4 Weddings and a Funeral

A look at the intimacy of the US writer Ernest...

Stephen King: A Necessary Evil

The American writer Stephen King has been one of the...

Words for an End of the World

Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From...

Who's Afraid of Lady Chatterley?

England, 1960. The Crown sues the publisher Penguin Books in...

La véritable histoire de D'Artagnan

Edgar Allan Poe - Amerikas abgründiger Pop-Poet

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous American...

O avô na sala de estar: a prosa leve de Antonio Candido

Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings

An analysis of the sources of inspiration that fed the...

Aladdin and Ali Baba: Stories from the 1001 Nights?

The stories of The Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One...