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1921 – 1995
←The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith, is the first of five books featuring the con man Tom Ripley. As the story begins, Tom is a twenty-three-year-old living in New York. He comes from a fairly disadvantaged background, but has aspirations to a better life. An accomplished liar and fraudster, […]
[1857–1924]
A Polish-born English novelist, master in the formats of long short story and novella, a form of story longer than conventional short story but shorter than a novel. Some of Conrad’s most acclaimed works have been written in these formats, most notably Heart of Darkness.
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¤ James Joyce [1882 – 1941]
‘The Dead’ [«DUBLINERS»] – Gabriel Conroy attends a party, and later, as he speaks with his wife, has an epiphany about the nature of life and death.
At 15–16,000 words this story, closing the short-story cycle ‘Dubliners’, has also been classified as a novella. […]
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Considered by many historians as the last of the Gaelic kings of Scotland, MacBeth has become less of a historical figure and more a fictional character. At the hands of later chroniclers -mostly English- and ultimately by the pen of William Shakespeare, MacBeth changed into a despicable ruler, a […]
¶ Music from The Balkans: Serbia – Bulgaria – Greece …
•→Divna Ljubojevic & Melody u Kijevu [Byzantine Orthodox music]⇐
«Divna» means «wonderful» in English… Her voice certainly lives up to her name!
•→Divna Ljubojević & Hor «Melodi» Pashalni koncert⇐
The Serbian diva with […]
Written by John Kander and Fred Ebb in the style of a traditional German song, sung by the Nazi youth in 1972 musical ‘Cabaret’, to stir up patriotism for the «fatherland». It has often been mistaken for a genuine «Nazi anthem» and led to the songwriters being accused of anti-Semitism, which proves how brilliantly Bob Fosse depicted […]
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