Tag: literature

by CG FEWSTON January 24, 2014
Fiction

The Stranger (1946) by Albert Camus

The Stranger or L’Etranger (1946) by Albert Camus (who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957) is translated from the French in my edition of the book by Matthew Ward.

by CG FEWSTON January 23, 2014
Fiction

The Collector (1963) by John Fowles

Fowles is able to do what most other authors only dream of with the two narrative voices that are as distinct and profound as the other, illuminating the story from mere words on a page to a true memory that is just as haunting in one form of action as it is in its recondite social commentary.

by CG FEWSTON December 19, 2013
Non-Fiction

What is Art? (1899) by Leo Tolstoy

Tolstoy writes: ”But what is this beauty which forms the subject-matter of art? How is it defined? What is it?

”As is always the case, the more cloudy and confused the conception conveyed by a word, with the more aplomb and self-assurance do people use that word, pretending that what is understood by it is so simple and clear that it is not worth while even to discuss what it actually means.”

by CG FEWSTON November 7, 2013
Fiction Pictures

The Open Boat (1897) by Stephen Crane

”The welcome of the land to the men from the sea was warm and generous, but a still and dripping shape was carried slowly up the beach, and the land’s welcome for it could only be the different and sinister hospitality of the grave.”

by CG FEWSTON October 27, 2013
Fiction

A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Ernest Hemingway

“On the days of false spring it was very nice, after boxing and taking a shower, to walk along the streets smelling the spring in the air and stop at a cafe to sit and watch people and read the paper and drink vermouth; then go down to the hotel and have lunch with Catherine.”

by CG FEWSTON October 23, 2013
Fiction Film Pictures Videos

The Sign of Four (1890) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The mystery begins when Mary Morstan (in Chapter 2) tells Holmes and Watson about the disappearance of her father, Captain Morstan, and the arrival of a pearl each year for six years.

by CG FEWSTON September 8, 2013
Fiction Film Pictures

House of Sand and Fog (1999) by Andre Dubus III

The book begins in the late 1980s with Kathy Nicolo, a former drug addict and alcoholic, being wrongly evicted from her home.

by CG FEWSTON July 24, 2013
Non-Fiction Pictures

The Masks of God, Vol. I: Primitive Mythology (1959) by Joseph Campbell

One of the last sections is “The Functioning of Myth” and Campbell goes into great deal to extrapolate the introductory section. “The ends for which men strive in the world,” writes Campbell, “are three — no more, no less; namely: love and pleasure (kāma), power and success (artha: pronounced ‘art-ha’), and lawful order and moral virtue (dharma).”