“Metamorphosis” captures conflicted feelings about a death in the family.
Tag Archives: Metamorphosis
The Classics as Teen Survival Guides
Vietnamese immigrant Phuc Tran uses various classics to survive American adolescence.
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged adolescence, assimilation, Franz Kafka, George Bernard Shaw, great books, Gustave Flaubert, Homer, Iliad, immigrants, Madame Bovary, Pygmalion | Comments closed
Lit Comforts an ALS Sufferer
This past March an ALS sufferer spoke eloquently, shortly before her death, about how she turned to Sophocles, Kafka, and Shakespeare for comfort.
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged ALS, death and dying, Franz Kafka, Hamlet, Lynette Williamson, Oedipus, Sophocles, William Shakespeare | Comments closed
The Brave New World of Twitterature
Depending on your point of view, literature reduced to tweets is either comic or horrifying.
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Catcher in the Rye, E. M. Forster, Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, Howards End, In Search of Lost Time, J. D. Salinger, Jane Austen, John Milton, John Steinbeck, Madame Bovary, Marcel Proust, Of Mice and Men, Paradise Lost, Pride and Prejudice, Trial | Comments closed
