A walk does wonders to the spirit. To feel free and relaxed, supple and less lazy one should go for a walk. It is the morning walk that is more exhilarating as we can look at the birds, listen to their sharp calls , see the leaves in a mood of stillness or playfulness depending upon the breeze or await the turn of the wheel when all Nature is about to awaken. The Sun is not yet out and that minute of an interval between night and day, crowns a feeling of mystery.
Kafka, Kundera and Beckett become points of departure for thinking about narrative, memory, time, uncertainty and the modern human predicament.
The sharper they are, the deeper is their impact. Vocabulary wise English is a richly endowed language and has a choice of words or expressions to express every nuance of meaning or idea. One is in fact spoilt for choice. How many of us have not wondered why somebody is said to have been assassinated when it is plain murder, or why robbing a bank is not embezzlement or why there is a distinction between an autopsy and a post-mortem?
This post is about the novel The Tin Drum by Nobel prize winning novelist Gunter Grass. I have read only one of his novels but have preserved a very strong impression of the novel’s style and narrative structure. The Tin Drum is the life of Oskar Matzerath. Oskar Matzerath’s companion through life is his drum…
Figurative expression as an aspect of the novel found in the novels of D.H.Lawrence and Thomas Hardy: Both the novelists engaged intensely with their subject and were also poets. Poems of D.H. Lawrence like ‘ The Snake’ and ‘Ship Of Death’ have a vitality and ardour which can be observed to a greater extent in…
What a delightful novel! What an astounding array of characters. It is remarkable how Dickens does not leave out even one strand unraveled or no character rounded off towards the end. When I finished the novel, I felt I had had a repast. Dickens is truly at the height of his powers; be it the…
andom reflections on the novel- (Part-23) Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle maintenance. Robert.M.Pirsig Culture and Science or more precisely Art and Science shape different visions in each individual. What dominates our thought is what determines our world vision. Can people make quick adjustments between these two narrative veins: Art which is more about…
It has been hailed as a wonderful piece of fiction which employs philosophy, theology and logic in the building up of its narrative. As I started the first pages, I was reminded of Mann’s Magic Mountain and Cervantes’s Don Quixote. As the author remarks in his post script the reader who doesn’t contemplate the first…
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende is a novel which spans four generations of the Del Valle family, starting from Nivea, to Clara, to Blanca and Alba. Taking us through momentous events in the history of the world and the country at the turn of the 20th century and afterwards, the novel chronicles…
Uncle Tom is a wonderful sketch for two reasons;The way Tom liberates his soul from his body, and lets them know they can maul and mutilate his body, but they cannot touch his soul, And then the way he refuses to stoop down to wickedness and incurs the wrath of his master Simon Legree. The…