— Anonymous Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” impressed me significantly since he narrates the thoughts, feelings and experience of death so vividly, and more importantly, he reveals life wisdoms and society problems beneath Ivan’s death. It reminds me of Cao Xueqin’s words about what is a great work “a grasp of mundane affairs is […]
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With just words you feel all these emotions
— Anonymous One of my favorite readings so far is “This Way For The Gas, Ladies And Gentlemen”, by Tadeusz Borowski. It is an easy to read text that is about events that happened, not this specific story but the history around it. It gives us, with plenty of details, about how those people lived […]
Dark and light yin-yang are especially significant in the times we are all living through
— Anonymous I would consider the poems from the Tao Te Ching to be great works of literature, and I think the messages the poems portray, associated with the dark and light yin-yang are especially significant in the times we are all living through today. There is a strong sense of darkness associated with the […]
“Endgame” by Samuel Beckett is one of many literary texts that I don’t understand…
— Anonymous “Endgame” by Samuel Beckett is one of many literary texts that I don’t understand. When I first read the play, I was quite confused by the situation the characters are in. I did not understand the theme or purpose of this play because there was a lot of repetition that seemed absurd. This […]
Reading Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich is complementary to the current state of the world…
— Jeremy Ramirez Reading Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” is complementary to the current state of the world. A vast majority of people’s lives were interrupted due to the pandemic. We’ve been for many years in a deep nap of our reality and once in a while we are awakened in a state of […]