The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis. A Romance was published in the year 1796. The word romance may be a little misleading and has to be understood in the context of the 18th century as Imaginary or Super-natural. Is there a place for the super-natural amidst human society? If the scriptures are to be believed,…
A reading of Márquez’s great fictional universe, where family history, memory, solitude and the magical become inseparable from ordinary life.
A novel by Charles Dickens espouses most of my predilections about the Novel; be it the plot, the characterization, an underlying philosophy, a love of humanity, the triumph of good over evil, the victory of the underdog, the rewarding of the morally strong and the general feeling of happiness and well being. So no wonder…
Mary Braddon’s novel was published in the year 1862. The blurb calls it a disturbing exploration of the dark side of respectable Victorian society. Helen Maldon, Lucy Graham and then Lady Audley is the principal character of the novel. As her transformation from one figure to another takes place she works towards erasing her life…
In the days of the Wild West, when writers were busy writing about questions like, freedom, love, morality, Edgar Allan Poe was delving into the more mysterious aspects of life which touched upon the eerie, the grotesque, the occult and the arcane. The stories of Poe have an aura of the mysterious and Gothic about…
What intrigued me about the novel was the ending. I could not understand why the novelist had to devote more than 6 pages for the preparations of war going on in France while Nana lies in the hospital bed. Nana leads a life of pleasure and un forbidden freedom. She is the embodiment of sensuality….
A return to Achebe’s landmark novel and the tragedy of an individual, a culture and a social order confronted by disruptive historical change.
భిభూతి భూషన్ బందోపాధ్యాయ వనవాసి ఒక ప్రకృతి ఆరాధకుని జీవితం గురించిన ఈ నవలలో వర్ణన, సౌందర్య పిపాస, ప్రకృతి ఆరాధన అత్యంత రమణీయంగా ఉన్నది. బీహార్లోని కుసినది, లవటాలియా అడవుల్లో కచేరి పనులు చక్కబెట్టడానికి వచ్చిన రచయిత నిర్జన, నిశీధీ, సౌందర్యంతో శోభిల్లుతున్న ఆ వనాలలో లీనమైపోతాడు. ఆ అరణ్యవాసుల జీవన సౌoదర్యం, బ్రతుకు పోరాటాలతో మమేకమవుతాడు. భూమికీ, పర్యావరణానికీ, మానవ అభివృద్దికి, పురోగతికి వైరుధ్యం ఉన్నది. బీహార్ ప్రాంతం లోని జమీందారుల ఎస్టేట్ లను…
A reflection on love in García Márquez’s fiction and the many forms desire, memory, patience and human attachment can take.
The story of seven generations, whose most ancient ancestor is Kunta Kinte, a Gambian. He is abducted forcibly from his African village and enslaved. The author Alex Haley goes back, back to his roots, to his great great great grand father’s African village putting together all his painstaking research to produce this moving book. In…