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Galatea 2.2 is a 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers and a contemporary reworking of the Pygmalion myth. [1] The book's narrator shares the same name as Powers, with the book referencing events and books in the author's life while mentioning other events that may or may not be based upon Powers' life.
Zadig or the Book of Fate public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Zadig, and other stories; chosen and edited with an introd., notes, and a vocabulary by Irving Babbitt (1905)" Zadig, and other tales, 1746-1767. A new translation by Robert Bruce Boswell (1910)" Zadig, An English Translation by Donald M. Frame (1961) (in French) Zadig, audio version
Plot armor is a plot device wherein a fictional character is preserved from harm due to their necessity for the plot to proceed. [1] The Oxford English Dictionary identified the term as originating in the 2000s, with its first reported use on the Usenet forum alt.games.dur-trs-trap. [ 2 ]
The scholar of literature Victoria Holtz-Wodzak calls Niënor a "study of the lives of women during wartime. She is, for all practical purposes, a war orphan". Holtz-Wodzak sees the war-time fate of the women in Tolkien's life as well as his own experiences as inspiration for the character and its sympathetic treatment by the author.
Amor fati is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate".It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary.
Once again, due to the unknown precise ending of the story, and also to the general direction of the traits (the dog's hesitance, the death of the snake, the crocodile's offer of help) one very likely conclusion of the tale is the general avoidance of the prince's gruesome fate and the more positive ending of having him avoid death by those ...
The Nonexistent Knight (Italian: Il cavaliere inesistente) is an allegorical fantasy novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino, first published in Italian in 1959 and in English translation in 1962. The tale explores questions of identity, integration with society, and virtue through the adventures of Agilulf, a medieval knight who exemplifies ...
The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859. [1] [2] It was republished in 1879. [2]Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, possible life after death, and the power of fate.