The Life, the Universe, and Everything
By Donald Hall (1928 – )
When we learn to read fiction, we acquire pleasure and a resource we never lose. Although literary study is impractical in one sense – few people make their living reading books – in another sense it is almost as practical as breathing. Literature records and embodies centuries of human thought [...]
About “Monumental Propaganda” (from the cover of the book)
“A cutting comic romp … a tale of naïve, willful delusion on a collision course with bureaucratic group-think: mindless belief on a collision course with unthinking pragmatism.” Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Vladimir Voinovich, author of the classic “The life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin”, [...]
Current Forum: Bonus Assignment Forum
Date: Thu May 30 2002 11:55 pm
Author: Bill
Subject: Re: Counting Electric Sheep
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Thank you for your kind words, Svetlana.
You are correct; you did not say that fiction was useless! I did, however, get the impression that you had little use for science fiction. You are also correct that there are [...]
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Current Forum: Bonus Assignment Forum
Date: Thu May 30 2002 11:33 am
Author: Bill
Subject: Counting Electric Sheep
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P.K. Dick wrote this thing back in 1968. The world was a different place back then, with a different political and social climate. The cold war was at its height. The genre of science fiction was still trying to find its way. Many of [...]
A LA GUERRE COMME A LA GUERRE
What makes it so unique? … the fact that Remarque does not spoon-feed his reader page by page with ready-made attitudes, but leaves him to draw his own conclusions from the book.
from “Die Welt am Montag”
(quoted in Barker and Last, page 38)
Introduction
Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western [...]
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