The Retrial of Meursault.
[Scene: A swelteringly hot courtroom in Algeria. Three judges, two in black and the third in scarlet, enter the courtroom …
Tag Archives: Literary criticism
What does Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina mean?
[The following contains spoilers.] I never read graphic novels – there is enough on my plate already! – but I …
Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Dynamiter and The Puritan-Provincial Vision.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. THE INFLUENCE OF “SELF-HELP.“ “Robert Louis …
Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help versus Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Dynamiter.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. THE INFLUENCE OF SCHEHERAZADE. Had Samuel Smiles been ever asked …
Notes, Critical and Contextual, on RL Stevenson’s The Dynamiter: The Influence of Scheherazade.
INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. I have heard, O fortunate reader, that once the Sasanian …
Book Review: Go, Went, Gone.
[The following contains spoilers.] Jenny Erpenbeck‘s Go, Went, Gone was first published in 2015 and it appeared in English, translated …
Notes, Critical and Contextual, on RL Stevenson’s The Dynamiter: The Influence of the One Thousand and One Nights.
INTRODUCTION. When writing to his cousin and near namesake Bob Stevenson in 1882, Robert Louis Stevenson reminisced about how they …
Notes, Critical and Contextual, on RL Stevenson’s The Dynamiter: Introduction.
On September 11 2001, four passenger airliners were hijacked over the USA’s north-eastern seaboard. Two of them were flown into …
Book Review: Riotous Assembly.
Tom Sharpe’s fiction can be compared to the single-wheeled electric scooter – a fantastic invention and widely admired, but one …
Book Review: The Evenings.
The Dutch Society of Literature has apparently voted Gerard Reve’s The Evenings: A Winter’s Tale the best Dutch novel of …
Brighton Rock and “A Good Man Is Hard To Find.”
I was very struck last year when reading Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” (1953) …
The Character of Scheherazade.
Once upon a time Shahryār, the Persian king of all kings, was betrayed in love by his wandering wife. Shahryār …
Book Review – The Corporation Wars: Dissidence.
Now the hurly-burly’s done, or at least now that we are on the sunny side of Brexit, let us catch …
Short Story Review: Fly Away Home.
Marina Warner is a feminist historian and novelist; her latest book Fly Away Home was published last September. Twenty short …
Book Review: Nightwalking, A Nocturnal History of London.
My life is filled with the constant swish of walking. I live in Edinburgh, a capital city without a Tube …
