Khamba Thoibi is "a legendary Meitei language epic poem" and "is regarded as the national epic of the Manipuris". The Wikipedia article about Meitei literature makes no mention of a national epic but says that "Khamba Thoibi is regarded as the greatest epic poetry in Meitei literature." However, ...
In Act 4, scene 3, Macduff is talking with Malcolm. He has just heard the news that his wife and children have been murdered by Macbeth's forces. Then he says,
He has no children.
Who is "he" in this speech? The speeches just before this line don't mention any specific male character.
Theodor Fontane's novel Effi Briest is often taught at German schools. The Wikipedia article about the novel has a section on the novel's legacy which says,
[Thomas] Mann said that if one had to reduce one's library to six novels, Effi Briest would have to be one of them.
The source for that s...
The first picaresque novel in European literature was the Spanish novel Lazarillo de Tormes, which was first published in 1554. The Wikipedia article about the genre does not mention any examples in Portuguese even though both countries share a long border and use languages belonging to the same ...
Earlier this year, Samantha Rose Hill, who has been working on a book about Hannah Arendt, tweeted,
"I just finished reading Sartre's Les Mots—and was so disgusted that I was almost tempted to review this piece of highly complicated lying."
Hannah Arendt on Jean-Paul Sartre:
"(…) It reminds me o...
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