What was the nationality of Hermann Hesse?
The German-born author of Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927) Hermann Hesse became a Swiss citizen at the outbreak of World War I.
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.
The German-born author of Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927) Hermann Hesse became a Swiss citizen at the outbreak of World War I.
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946.
The thirty-second piece Breath by Samuel Beckett has no actors and no dialogue.
Logocentrism is the habit of assigning truth to words. Deconstructionists seek to combat logocentrism by deconstructing, or taking apart, texts: exposing hidden presuppositions; revealing texts as essentially indeterminate and unreadable.
The hero of Richard Wright’s Native Son is Bigger Thomas, a black man from Chicago who murders a white woman and is executed for it.
Virginia Woolf drowned herself at the River Ouse near her home at Rodmell, Sussex, in 1941, following a bout with mental illness.
Nelson Algren received the first National Book Award for Fiction in 1950 for The Man with the Golden Arm.
Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-96) put the traditional song “Auld Lang Syne” into its present form in The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1803).