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Short Stories, Franz Kafka, ?In the Penal Settlement?, and ?The Giant Mole?
2008-02-15 22:32:00
In the Penal Settlement is the first in the series of stories in this collection that considers more than one character in any depth. The explorer, the officer, the soldier and the condemned all undergo a transformation as the story unfolds; told in third person, limited to the explorer, the story evolves as the penal ...
I think I?m thinking. Therefore, I think I?m here.
2008-02-14 22:33:00
This idea finds its origin in the writing of Descartes. Rene Descartes’ Discourse on the Method of Rightly conducting Reason and reaching the Truth in the Sciences is a Philosophical work that contains, in part four, his most famous statement, “I think therefore I am.”   Descartes is considered to be one of the main architects of ...
The Burrow and Investigations of a Dog, Short Stories by Franz Kafka
2008-02-14 21:28:00
Kafka continues the anthropomorphic metaphor to consider the life of a solitary mammalian predator; a predator that is large enough to consider a rat easy pray. The character begins to describe, from the first person point of view, his life. He paints a finely detailed picture of underground dwelling, the voice of the narrator is ...
Franz Kafka Metamorphosis, Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep, Toni Morrison et
2008-02-14 11:37:00
Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby, Song of Solomon, and Paradise are the books I have been reading since my last post. I have enthusiastically taken on board Ray Bradbury’s advice that one must read to write. I love to read so much that the writing ...
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