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Books, Reading and Literary Reflections
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The Tin Drum
Read more →: The Tin DrumThis 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…
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D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy
Read more →: D.H. Lawrence and Thomas HardyFigurative 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…
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The Brothers Karamazov
Read more →: The Brothers Karamazovandom reflections on the novel (Part-24) This week my reflections are about one of the most profound novels that I have read –“Brothers Karamazov” In the world not everything is rational. If everything in the world was rational, nothing would happen. So, it would be unwise or foolish to look for solutions, logical outcomes as…
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The Name of the Rose
Read more →: The Name of the RoseIt 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…
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Read more →: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenanceandom 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…
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The House of the Spirits
Read more →: The House of the SpiritsThe 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…
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Read more →: Uncle Tom’s CabinUncle 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…
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చివరకు మిగిలేది
Read more →: చివరకు మిగిలేదిబుచ్చిబాబు ‘చివరకు మిగిలేది’లో దయానిధి వ్యక్తిత్వం, ప్రేమ, అన్వేషణ, వైరుధ్యం, శూన్యం మరియు సత్యాన్వేషణ గురించి నా ఆత్మీయ సాహిత్య పరిశీలన.
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నేను చదివిన పుస్తకాలు — Part 2
Read more →: నేను చదివిన పుస్తకాలు — Part 2More books, more conversations, and the many ways they stay with us.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Read more →: The Count of Monte CristoAfter finally reading the unabridged novel, I reflect on Dumas’s immense canvas of adventure, suffering, revenge and the sheer exhilaration of storytelling.
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మనసు లోని మాట
Read more →: మనసు లోని మాటదూరం, ఊరు, బాల్యం, స్నేహం, ఇంటి జ్ఞాపకాలు — మనసులో మిగిలే తియ్యని బాధను పలికించే జ్ఞాపకాల కవిత.
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Revisiting
Read more →: RevisitingA look back, not to return, but to understand — and to move forward more gently.