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Requiem for a Friend Rainer Maria Rilke Issue 82, Winter 1981 (In memoriam Paula Modersohn-Becker) Paris Review, Oct. 25, 2017 I have my dead, and I have let them go, and was amazed to see them so contented, so soon at home in being dead, so cheerful, so unlike their reputation. Only you return; brush past me, loiter, try to knock against something, so that the sound reveals yo..

Edgar Allan Poe’s Hatchet Jobs The great short story writer and poet wrote many a book review. By Mark Athitakis HUMANITIES, Fall 2017 | Volume 38, Number 4 Tony Award-winning Denis O'Hare portrays the author in Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, an American Masters documentary. —Photo by Liane Brandon + Click on image to enlarge. Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849. —Rare B..

잡지 GRANTA에서 옮겨왔음 Summer after the War Kazuo Ishiguro Something like a torn blanket – I could not see clearly through the evening gloom – had caught high in the limbs of a tree and was billowing gently in the wind. Another tree had fallen and tumbled over the shrubs. Leaves and broken branches lay scattered everywhere. I thought of the war, of the de..

Edgar Allan Poe Was a Broke-Ass FreelancerBy Catherine Baab-MuguiraMM The Millionsposted at 6:00 am on September 12, 2017 1. A lot of fans know Edgar Allan Poe earned just $9 for “The Raven,” now one of the most popular poems of all time, read out loud by schoolteachers the world over. What most people don’t know is that, for his entire oeuvre—all his fiction, poetr..

박해현의 문학산책] 삶은 황혼이 깃들 무렵에 날아오른다 올해의 노벨 문학상은 일본 출신의 영국 작가 가즈오 이시구로에게 돌아갔다. 이시구로의 대표작으로 손꼽히는 장편소설 '남아 있는 나날'(송은경 옮김)은 겉보기엔 단순하지만 속은 복잡하다. ...조선일보 > 사설ㆍ칼럼2017. 10. ..

Poetry News RIP Richard Wilbur (1921-2017) By Harriet Staff Poetry Foundation October 16th, 2017 Over the span of a 60-plus year career, Richard Wilbur racked up two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Book Award, our own Ruth Lilly Prize, and was named poet laureate of the United States, the nation's second. Wilbur died over the weekend at the age of 96. The New York Times offers an ..

Literature & CultureSaving OrwellPeter Ross Boston Review Oct 6, 2017 From invading Afghanistan to dismantling Confederate monuments, George Orwell has been pressed into the service of all sorts of causes. But the real Orwell remains unknown. This essay is featured in Global Dystopias. “It was a bright cold day in April,” said Richard Blair, “and the clocks were striking ..

The Globalization of Literature By SEAN NAM The New Rambler Review of The Global Novel, by Adam Kirsch Columbia: Columbia Global Imports, 2017 The story, according to Genesis 11, goes that mankind once shared a single common language, but instead of obeying God and spreading ourselves across the world, we decided to remain where we were and “make a name for ourselves” by c..

Book ReviewsWhitman and the American Revelation The epiphany that led to a national literature’s single greatest achievement: tucked in a prosaic, newly discovered early novel are the seeds of ‘Leaves of Grass’ By Paul BemanTabletOctober 4, 2017 • 12:00 AM A literary scholar named Zachary Turpin at the University of Houston has discovered and published two previousl..

Who Will Win the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature? This time we know one thing for sure: It won't be Bob Dylan.By Alex ShephardNew Republic, October 3, 2017 There are worse things to get horribly, almost unthinkably wrong than the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. (The outcome of a presidential election, for one.) But there has definitely never been a worse time than 2016 ..