Franz kafka biography video about helen keller
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This week, my (free) email subscription to the Story of the Week from the Library of America, brought me ‘The Power of Touch’ by Helen Keller. It was first published in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (Feb 1908) and revised for The World I Lived In (1908), and is now available in Helen Keller: Autobiographies & Other Writings, edited by Keller’s biographer Kim E Neilson and comprising The Story of My Life;The World I Live In; and essays, speeches, letters, and journals. (See here.)
When I was a girl, it was usual for my birthday and Christmas presents to include an ‘annual’ of some sort. Predating the Disneyfication of children’s literature, sometimes these annuals were marketed with a title that linked to cartoons and children’s magazines, as in the Daily Express Rupert annual from 1955, still being produced as late as 1986, if my search at Abebooks is anything to go by. Occasionally they produced Commonwealth editions, such as The Children’s Annual for New Zealand Boys and Girls.
More often these annuals were gendered and had titles like Every Boys’ Annual, which featured a lad braving the elements in a macintosh and sou’wester while The School Friend Annual featured cheery girls
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Enrique Vila-Matas’ Literature Sickness and W.G. Sebald
If ever there was a subject to be avoided by novelists, it ought to be writer’s block, a theme that screams “self-indulgence.” Nevertheless, the opening paragraph of Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas’ novel Montano proudly proclaims that we are about to be subjected to 326 pages concerning one man’s “tragic inability to write”. Originally published in Spain in 2002 as El Mal de Montano (“Montano’s Malady”), Harvill Secker published Jonathan Dunne’s translation in 2007 under the simpler title Montano. I was drawn to the book by the jacket’s claim that “Vila-Matas has created a labyrinth in which writers as various as Cervantes, Sterne, Kafka, Musil, Perec, Bolaño, Coetzee, Sebald and Magris cross endlessly surprising paths.”
As the book opens, Montano’s narrator, a literature critic, has “literature sickness,” an apparently incurable obsession with literature. In this case, the sickness is so strong that it has started to inhibit his ability to write. Having recently finished a novel about writers who gave up writing, the narrator finds he can no longer write anything except his private diary (which he keeps sharing with us). Frankly, I found
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