One of the reasons for starting A Bit Of Literature series was to feature short stories by modern time writers, so that the rest of us can get inspired and enjoy reading not only the well-known masters of the written word, but also those whose talent has not yet been widely recognized.
So when one of […]
There are many cities in the world that I’d especially love to visit in this lifetime. Some of those cities on my list to see I’ve already been very fortunate to explore: Paris, Amsterdam, Prague, St. Petersburg, Moscow. Tomorrow I’m off to another city-legend - New York. I’m going there for a week on a […]
Russian roulette, duels, the Renaissance, the Nihilism, the wars - these are just some of the most famous characteristics of Czarist Russia in the first half of the XIX century. One of the youngest and loudest literature voices of that time was Mikhail Lermontov. In his short life (he died at the age of 26 […]
Back in school we had a young teacher of Russian Literature whom no one in class would listen. Those literature classes were the noisiest, and the students were doing anything except studying Literature and following the teacher’s orders. One day he brought a book, and started reading it to us. After only a few minutes […]
Karel Čapek (1890-1938), Czech playwright, novelist and short story writer, is recognized for his intelligent humour and exceptional imagination. He’s probably best known for his futuristic play R.U.R (Rossum’s Universal Robots), where he was the first one to use the word ROBOT, invented by his brother Joseph Čapek (poet and cartoonist), as well as for […]
Guess what famous American writer said “Prose is architecture, not interior decoration”? Yes, of course, Ernest Hemingway, whose minimalist writing style and deceptively simple prose earned him world-wide recognition.
James Joyce once reflected on Hemingway: “He has reduced the veil between literature and life, which is what every writer strives to do. Have you read […]
“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words”, said Dorothy Parker. At the age of 24 she sold a poem to Vanity Fair in 1917, and a few months later was hired as an editorial assistant for Vogue. In 1919 she was writing for Vanity Fair, and despite becoming readers favourite […]
Today I’d like to take you to about trillions year in the future and see it the way one of my most favourite science-fiction writers saw. Read this short story and you’ll see why I chose M.C. Escher’s work ‘Bond Of Union’ to illustrate Isaak Asimov’s vision of our future. I should warn you […]
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