British Actors Read Poignant Poetry from World War I

≡ Category: History, Literature, Poetry | ≅ 2 Comments

The First World War (1914-1918) changed Britain to a degree that was unthinkable in 1914. Pre-war certainties and values such as honor, fatherland and progress disintegrated on the battlefields and trenches in France and Belgium.

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Vladimir Nabokov Marvels Over Different “Lolita” Book Covers

≡ Category: Books, Literature | ≅ 3 Comments

In this short excerpt from a TV program called “USA: The Novel,” Vladimir Nabokov comments on different foreign editions of his novel Lolita.

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Passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake: The Film

≡ Category: Film, Literature | ≅ 2 Comments

Due to its stylistic and linguistic complexity, James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake ranks among the most difficult works of fiction. And that is why virtually no filmmaker has ever tried to adapt Joyce’s final work for the screen.

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