Imagining of Literature

It won’t be me if I start this list with no female name on it. So without further ado here she is, the devil in a skirt, the most seductive and yet the most vicious god creature – Kate from “East of Eden”. Let’s put aside the infernal features Steinbeck is particularly searching. Kate is the perfect villain because she feels no remorse, no love and in a matter of fact no real hatred. She is amputated from everything that can be called human weakness – she does not feel regret does not fully realize what bonds are – blood relations or other – she knows not their real meaning, she is not even keen on her own children. But she does have an Achilles’ heel, however, and that is the fact that she is self-centered, egocentric person with maniac obsessions. It is not a surprise that one of the most popular teen books/tv series “Vampire diaries” is equipped with a similar villain Katherina – the evil Bulgarian vampire, who is in many ways literally like Steinbeck’s character. Book villain №...

A story suddenly ends and its tail leaves traceable marks of another tale… This one refers to a girl grown up in captivity. The years of her life passed enduring pain and torture. She was kept in a bird cage. The cage was so small for her human body that she suffered even more. She was forbidden to get out and to stretch her limbs. Her legs were cramped closer and closer to her heart. Each year her limbs were shrinking more than the previous one until she transformed into disfigured edgy shape of a human being. The girl counted on her eyes to prove to her she was living and as her body was growing smaller the bigger her eyes became. When her cage was placed outside she watched the velvet night sky and kept imagining that every single shining star is a fulfilled dream or a link between her and the other captives of Fortuna. She hoped that the clear rain drops are the tears someone has shed for her. When she happened to see a beautiful flower she spread deformed hand to reach it o...

The book regarded as a window towards other worlds is a commonly used and long-time repeated cliché in all literary and cultural contexts. But it was Richley Crapo’s words that the most distinctive feature separating humanity from animals is the ability to create symbols, to change meanings again and again. And Robert Harrison continues: “language is the ultimate place of human habitation… logos is that which opens the human abode on the earth”. Just with its publishing in July 1890 Wilde’s book provoked diametrically different reactions. On one hand was the uncensored portrait of the hypocrisy of Victorian aristocracy that gave rise to the negative evaluations the novel received. On the other hand is the time evaluation that proves that “The picture…” is manifesto of Wilde as an author. Apology of the Beauty, the author as a messiah, the miracle of creation, the unique esthetic way of writing – all of this earned “The picture…” a place at the pantheon of the Canon. A book heading is ...

If you search Google for Yasmina Khadra, Wikipedia will inform you that the name is a pseudonym of the writer Mohammed Moulessehoul. He used the enchanting female name (which translated from Arabic means “green jasmine”) to avoid the military censorship. Speaking of his book, the author explains that its main purpose was to show one undisguised version of the East to the West. The book shows both the differences and the similarities without jumping to conclusions. The book’s goal is indeed to reveal that people are the same everywhere – good or evil, capable of love and respect or bound to hatred and out-of-date traditions. Of course, there are problems between East and West, the separation in words issue itself. Problems widely discussed, passionately argued about and profoundly researched. Everything seems to have been said. It was just the previous year when Sarkozy politically involved in the case of an afghan woman that was under sentence of death by public lynch. It is too easy...