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Title page of Karakter (1938 ed.). Character (original Dutch title Karakter) is a novel by Dutch author Ferdinand Bordewijk published in 1938. Subtitled "Een roman van zoon en vader", "a novel of son and father", it is a Bildungsroman [1] that traces the relationship between a stern father and his son.
Aspects of the Novel is a book based on a series of lectures delivered by E. M. Forster at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1927, in which he discusses the English language novel. By using examples from classic texts, he highlights what he sees as the seven universal aspects of the novel, which he defined as: story, characters, plot, fantasy ...
Personal is the nineteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child, published in 2014.The plot of the book revolves around Reacher's pursuit of a sniper who has attempted to assassinate the President of France. [1]
Saman is an Indonesian novel by Ayu Utami published in 1998. It is Utami's first novel, and depicts the lives of four sexually-liberated female friends, and a former Catholic priest, Saman, for whom the book is named.
To Live (simplified Chinese: 活着; traditional Chinese: 活著; pinyin: Huózhe) is a novel written by Chinese novelist Yu Hua in 1993. It describes the struggles endured by Fugui, the son of a wealthy land-owner, while historical events caused and extended by the Chinese Revolution are fundamentally altering the nature of Chinese society.
Novelist Nick Hornby referred to The Beach as "a Lord of the Flies for Generation X", and the Sunday Oregonian called it "Generation X's first great novel". The Washington Post wrote that it is "a furiously intelligent first novel" and "a book that moves with the kind of speed and grace many older writers can only day-dream about."
The novel follows protagonist Erika Kohut (German: [ˈeːʁika ˈkoːhʊt]), a sexually and emotionally repressed piano teacher, as she enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her student, Walter Klemmer (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈklɛmɐ]), the results of which are disastrous. Like much of Jelinek's work, the chronology of the events in the ...
In literary interpretation, paratext is material that surrounds a published main text (e.g., the story, non-fiction description, poems, etc.) supplied by the authors, editors, printers, and publishers. These added elements form a frame for the main text, and can change the reception of a text or its interpretation by the public.