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At Night" (German: "Nachts") is a very short story by Franz Kafka written in his notebooks. [1] As with many of the pieces in his notebooks, the tale is more of a segment than a story. The narrator reflects on the emptiness that can engulf one during nighttime. Yet, at the same time, where each person sleeps, there has been a rich history.
In his analysis, he focuses his attention on the use of the word "dear" within the first line. He notes that the reader's initial deduction of the word "dear" implies the idea of affection. But this initial impression of the word on the reader is immediately confronted by the word "estimate", which essentially uncovers the reality of the ...
I Am Legend is the product of an anxious artistic mind working in an anxious cultural climate. However, it is also a playful take on an old archetype, the vampire (the reader is even treated to Neville's reading and put-down of Bram Stoker's Dracula). Matheson goes to great lengths to rationalize or naturalize the vampire myth, transplanting ...
Ellen Nerenberg from Wesleyan University argues that the author uses the first-person narration and a childlike style to emphasize the protagonist's innocence. Nerenberg contends that a main theme of the novel is the solidarity of youth, exemplified by the bond that forms between the protagonist and the kidnapped child.
"Gray Matter" was first published in the October 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine. [1] In 1978, it was collected in King's first book of short stories, Night Shift (King had wanted to cut the story in favor of his 1972 story "Suffer the Little Children", but deferred to editor Bill Thompson who chose to keep "Gray Matter" in the collection). [2]
"Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" is a science fiction novella by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published in the 2019 collection Exhalation: Stories. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The novella's name quotes a proverb by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) in his work The Concept of Anxiety (1844). [ 3 ]
A Tree of Night and Other Stories received mixed reviews upon its publication. It firmly established Capote as a "Southern" writer alongside contemporaries such as William Faulkner or Tennessee Williams. The book received praise for its "enthralling style" and "remarkable beauty of language," but also received criticism for characters who "lack ...
Just as Genesis 22 has inspired much commentary over the years, so, too, has Fear and Trembling inspired much analysis. One commentator argues that the text is an analogy for how Christian justification by faith shortcuts rational meditation or universal reasoning. [ 10 ]