La vida y la obra de una de las mentes más singulares y poderosas del siglo XX. Centrándose en Dublineses, Retrato del artista adolescente y Ulises, tres de sus obras principales, explora el trasfondo, los temas, las imágenes y las técnicas que las unifican.
El ameno texto de Frank Startup analiza no sólo el argumento, la estructura o los personajes, sino la obra de Joyce en su totalidad.
Nos refiere cómo se consideraron y se consideran las obras de Joyce y nos dice por qué hay que leer hoy a Joyce.
Gina Wisker, while she introduces Virginia Woolf’s life and work to us, describes a writer of great sensitivity, who is able to express, from the deepest and most private place of her personality, the rhythm of life. Readers will discover how Virginia Woolf was able to break her time standards, since she was more interested in recreating life, in general, with her novels, rather than a specific plot that followed a traditional schema.
The text by G.W. bring the this author’s main works closer to us, it exhibits Virginia Woolf’s ideas about the topic of gender, the art of writing and the relationships that involve power, it deals with her side as an experimental writer and with the influence he had on literature, and tells us how her ideas opened up a window from which we could peer out and see other men and women’s lives.
Kafka is the inflammatory chronicler of a nightmare world. This text by Steve Coots introduces Kafka’s dark and sometimes troubled imaginary, trying to deal with it regarding his background and reveals its valuable relevance in modern society.
By starting from the analyses of his three novels and his most important tales, Coots addresses Kafka’s life and times, his main topics, his key ideas, his cultural background, how his work is considered nowadays and Kafka’s influence on our society.
Rose Miller provides us with a review of great Fyodor Dostoievski’s work, focused on the art of writing as a way of understanding human condition, and analyses the link between this author’s life and his work by exploring his most remarkable and characteristic features, the topics frequently used in his books, the profile of some valuable approaches to his literary style made by critics and, finally, a study about Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.