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Will Self discussed the idea of the death of the novel, as a microcosm of the wider debate about the death of the book itself, in relation to the transition from a Gutenberg era of printing to the post-Gutenberg era of the information age. [10] He has even questioned the longevity of the bookshelf, let alone the book. [11]
Garfield was inspired to write this novel sequel because he was so disappointed in the 1974 film adaption, he described it as "incendiary". He felt upset that the film's audience was encouraged by the violence and vigilantism, despite the story being against both topics in his book, in which Charles Bronson agrees with. Garfield thought that ...
The first three chapters begin with an omniscient and anonymous narrator finding the corpse of the General; the beginning of the third chapter reveals that the body belonged to Patricio Aragonés, whom, due to their uncanny resemblance, the general uses to fake his own death. [1] One of the book's most striking aspects is its focus on the God ...
The Sentence Is Death [1] is a 2019 mystery novel by British author Anthony Horowitz and the second novel in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series. The story focuses on solving the murder of a teetotaling solicitor who was murdered with an expensive bottle of wine.
The Sentence is a 2021 novel by American author Louise Erdrich. [ 1 ] Set in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the story concerns Tookie, an Indigenous woman who is haunted by Flora, a former customer at the bookstore where Tookie works.
Like other historical novels by Vidal, the novel is based on extensive use of contemporary sources, including Julian's own works, and much of the latter part of the book obviously uses Ammianus Marcellinus (who witnessed Julian's death) and Libanius, both of whom were friends of Julian and appear as characters in the novel.
The final page of the novel is in the form of a calligram. [6] The last sentence leaves the reader with some work of creative interpretation. The letters, in increasing number, disappear from the page while the width of the lines decreases until there is only one character. It is an invitation to readers to restore an absent text.
On a Pale Horse is a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony, first published in 1983.It is the first of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series. The book focuses on Zane, a photographer about to commit suicide who instead kills Death and must assume his office.