Turn of the Century Salon
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Kafka’s Copperfield in Amerika
“My intention was . . . to write a Dickens novel, enriched by the sharper lights which I took from our modern times, and by the pallid ones I would have found in my own interior.” – Diaries (1946), qtd. in “Amerika (novel),” Wikipedia. It is rarely my choice to read Franz Kafka all the Continue reading
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Paris in the Twentieth Century
This is a remarkable book with an even stranger setting – written in 1863, set in 1960, and not published till 1994. It’s not such a stretch, however, to include it in the Turn of the Century Salon, as Jules Verne was writing novels up through the early 1900s, and he is always associated with Continue reading
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Turn of the Century Salon – a literary event
Hosted by Katherine at November’s Autumn. My participation may be sporadic, but I’m going to try to fit this challenge into my schedule. 🙂 Here’s my answers to the questionnaire/prompts for January (Introduction): What draws you to read the Classics? Classics are works of art, unlike most contemporary fiction. I love reading, and though I Continue reading
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