of the nineteenth century, Ivan Turgenev and Karl Marx and their articles too. Turgenev always characterized positivity and love and all the positive emotions especially to the poor while Marx portrayed the negativity, hatred rather than such sorrow and compassion. Marx claimed to have love and welfare of people at heart, but he does not seem interested in people at all despite he leads the way towards the anti-human nightmare of Communist societies. However, Turgenev have genuine love and care…
EXILE LITERATURE: some variants M.V. Ramana Moorthy, Associate Professor Department of English, K.L.University, A.P Abstract: Exile literature has always attracted a lot of critical attention because of the poignant issues it raised. Particularly significant is the wide range of variants that the exile of the mind has and the creativity and innovations it sets into motion. Some authors were exiled or ostracized for…
However, this time period prompted several illegal writings, which documented many of the horrors occurring throughout the nation. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich tells the story of Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a prisoner of Russia’s notorious gulag system under Joseph Stalin; the novel takes the reader into the gulag camp for a day, depicting the daily struggles that Shukhov, along with the other prisoners, must face…
What kind of knowledge do we gain from the arts? It has been highly bothering to determine to what is knowledge produced by the arts. How do we know it is knowledge. How do we differentiate between the knowledge provided by arts and natural science. Is knowledge of the arts intention of the artist, the artwork itself or the interpretations of the viewer? To a large extent knowledge of the art is subject to contextual analysis and remain subjective whereas natural science tends to be more…
Guy de Maupassant, is regarded as the master of the shortest stories including the novel writer. His impact is evidence and well known globally.He was born on August 5, 1850, somewhere in Normandy, France.Gustave, his father, existed as a member of the ancient nobility of French origin.Apart from this, he was a renowned gambler, stockbroker and also a painter of amateur tools.Laure le Potvin, her mother, was a staunch and active woman .she was also so domineering. Maupassant parents marriage…
among Russian actors and audiences.” (Enotes). Ostrovsky was revered for the realistic depiction of Russian life and people. He was widely praised for his characters by contemporaries, critics, and the audience. Contemporaries like Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Goncharov enjoyed his plays immensely and gave favoring reviews. Ostrovsky had a career “without a rival among Russian authors for theatre.” (Theatre Database). He was such a pioneer in his field that he did not have any rivalries with other…
Ivan Turgenev’s ‘Fathers and Sons’ is a liberal novel written in 1862, which traces the ideological differences between the two young students of Moscow University, Yevgney Bazarov and Arkady Kirsanov. While Bazarov is a radical rebel and firm believer of nihilism, Arkady is a moderate however both the sons are vastly different in their beliefs from their traditional fathers. The novel explores nihilism in Russian society and how the radical nihilistic beliefs affect relations of Bazarov and…
is set during the war and describes a prostitutes life in an unfair society (Diamond). His father was responsible for introducing Guy to the Ministry Department for the Colonies, which included writers such as Emile Zola, Alphonse Daudet, and Ivan Turgenev (May). Such authors were responsible for putting Maupassant’s writing on the map and being mentors to him throughout his writing career (Bloom). His childhood caused him to create very vivid and imaginative…
Guy de Maupassant’s writings are a few of the best ever written due to his famous climatic dénouement. His stories typically reflect underlying social issues of the era. Within his short story, “The Necklace”, women are depicted in a negative manner. This leaves the question, are Maupassant’s writings influenced by society or life events? There is evidence to support both these theories. However, it is clear the 19th century society shaped his short story. Considering society’s 19th century…