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In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, seeing that the votes have stabilised, May is nearing its end, and it's time to announce the next topic challenge! Throughout June 2017, our topic challenge, proposed by BESW, will be
Topic challenge: The SEA is Ours
The SEA...
Our next topic challenge will be the anthology The SEA is Ours. It's an anthology, meaning it's a collection of short stories.
Should we have a The SEA is Ours tag?
The first lines of Albert Camus' The Stranger go something like this:
Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday
It's told in the present tense, as in, when Meursault is recounting the event it had happened that very same day. This tense continues for the next two paragraphs, emphasis mine:
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Author challenge: Michael Ende
We haven't had many german-literature questions yet, and what I've read of Ende's work is really fascinating, with some interesting ideas explored in unusual ways.
From Wikipedia:
Ende's writing could be described as a surreal mixture of reality and fantasy. T...
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In the play "An Inspector Calls" by J.B Priestley, Mr Birling gives a speech at the beginning of the play riddled with dramatic irony and selfish statements; he doesn't get to finish the speech as the Inspector arrives. Near the end of the play, after the Inspector exposes the Birlings for their ...
Around 13-15 years ago i had a book (or 2!) which featured a collection of short-stories.
It was written in German, i sadly remember neither the name of the book, nor the authors or publishers name.
What i do remember is, that it featured stories of:
Münchhausen
Schildbürger
Till Eulenspiegel
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The main character's internal monolog at one point reads:
You just want to kill. Yes, I do. And are you capable of it?
... the only thing I regret is killing her in vain. So they've almost taught me. But that's bad. That's dangerous. Remember Sergei Kozhin? And George Lenny? And Sabine Kr...
