Ayi Kwei Armah (1939 -
is a Ghanaian writer. Best known for his novels, including
1. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968),
○ The unnamed protagonist, referred to as "the man", works at a railway station and is approached with a bribe; when he refuses, his wife is furious and he can't help feeling guilty despite his innocence. The action takes place between 1965's Passion Week and 25 February 1966 – the day after the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president.
2. Two Thousand Seasons (1973)
3. The Healers (1979)
#AfricanLiterature
is a Ghanaian writer. Best known for his novels, including
1. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968),
○ The unnamed protagonist, referred to as "the man", works at a railway station and is approached with a bribe; when he refuses, his wife is furious and he can't help feeling guilty despite his innocence. The action takes place between 1965's Passion Week and 25 February 1966 – the day after the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president.
2. Two Thousand Seasons (1973)
3. The Healers (1979)
#AfricanLiterature
#LiteraryTermofTheDay
Négritude
1. Negritude, French Négritude, literary movement of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s that began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of assimilation.
2. Its leading figure was Léopold Sédar Senghor (elected first president of the Republic of Senegal in 1960), who, along with Aimé Césaire from Martinique and Léon Damas from French Guiana
3. Négritude intellectuals disavowed colonialism, and argued for the importance of a Pan-African racial identity among people of African descent worldwide.
The Negritude movement was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic flowering that emerged among a group of black thinkers and artists (including novelists and poets) in the United States, in New York City, during the 1920s.
Négritude
1. Negritude, French Négritude, literary movement of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s that began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of assimilation.
2. Its leading figure was Léopold Sédar Senghor (elected first president of the Republic of Senegal in 1960), who, along with Aimé Césaire from Martinique and Léon Damas from French Guiana
3. Négritude intellectuals disavowed colonialism, and argued for the importance of a Pan-African racial identity among people of African descent worldwide.
The Negritude movement was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance, a literary and artistic flowering that emerged among a group of black thinkers and artists (including novelists and poets) in the United States, in New York City, during the 1920s.
Hi Guys. Rakshabandhan Special 🎯 Try and complete these authors tomorrow along with your usual to-do list. Will put up a 20 question quiz tomorrow at 22.00.
Anton Chekhov
#RussianLiterature
Master of the modern short story.
Notable works
1. “The Seagull” - 1896
a. The Seagull is a study of the clash between the
b. older and younger generations as it affects two actresses and two writers, some of the details having been suggested by episodes in the lives of Chekhov’s friends
c. Tennessee Williams adapted The Seagull as The Notebook of Trigorin.
2. “The Cherry Orchard” -
a. “a comedy, in places even a farce - Chekov
b. Madame Ranevskaya returns to Russia from Paris after 5 years with debt.
c. Decides to dispose of family estate which has a cherry orchard
d. Coarse, wealthy merchant Ermolai Lopakhin suggerst to develop the land
e. Eventually Ermolai buys the land and sound of saws can be heard
3. “Ward Number Six”
4. “Uncle Vanya”
a. drama in four acts
b. a study of aimlessness and hopelessness.
c. Ivan Voynitsky called Uncle Vanya - devoted life for managing the country estate of his brother in law Serebryakov. Sonya Serebryakov's daughter endures her love for local physician.. Neither of them can leave the work at the end.
5. “Three Sisters”
a. Olga (the eldest sister) , - teacher
b. Masha The middle sister
c. Irina the youngest
Other Works:
“The Black Monk”
“Ivanov”
“A Dreary Story”
“Peasants”
“Wood Demon”
#RussianLiterature
Master of the modern short story.
Notable works
1. “The Seagull” - 1896
a. The Seagull is a study of the clash between the
b. older and younger generations as it affects two actresses and two writers, some of the details having been suggested by episodes in the lives of Chekhov’s friends
c. Tennessee Williams adapted The Seagull as The Notebook of Trigorin.
2. “The Cherry Orchard” -
a. “a comedy, in places even a farce - Chekov
b. Madame Ranevskaya returns to Russia from Paris after 5 years with debt.
c. Decides to dispose of family estate which has a cherry orchard
d. Coarse, wealthy merchant Ermolai Lopakhin suggerst to develop the land
e. Eventually Ermolai buys the land and sound of saws can be heard
3. “Ward Number Six”
4. “Uncle Vanya”
a. drama in four acts
b. a study of aimlessness and hopelessness.
c. Ivan Voynitsky called Uncle Vanya - devoted life for managing the country estate of his brother in law Serebryakov. Sonya Serebryakov's daughter endures her love for local physician.. Neither of them can leave the work at the end.
5. “Three Sisters”
a. Olga (the eldest sister) , - teacher
b. Masha The middle sister
c. Irina the youngest
Other Works:
“The Black Monk”
“Ivanov”
“A Dreary Story”
“Peasants”
“Wood Demon”
#QUIZ 1
1) Who wrote the 1859 novel Oblomov, whose lazy, daydreaming titular character satirizes the contemporary Russian nobility?
A. Andrey Bely
B. Ivan Goncharov ⬅️
C. Ivan Bunin
D. Vladimir Mayakovsky
2) What is the famous opening line of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina?
E. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
F. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.⬅️
G. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
H. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
3) What novel written by Nikolai Gogol traces the adventures of the landless social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune?
1. Dead Souls⬅️
2. Nevsky Prospect
3. The Overcoat
4. The Government Inspector
4) Which of the following Vladimir Nabokov works was originally written in his native Russian?
1. Bend Sinister
2. Invitation to a Beheading⬅️
3. Pale Fire
4. Pnin
5) What is the name of the central character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment?
1. Rodion Raskolnikov⬅️
2. Fyodor Karamazov
3. Prince Myshkin
4. Porfiry Petrovich
6) Which of the following is not a play written by famed Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov?
1. The Cherry Orchard
2. Uncle Vanya
3. Three Sisters
4. The Lower Depths⬅️
7) One of the few outspoken writers to survive Stalin’s regime, which poet was nevertheless prevented by the Soviet government from publishing any work from 1923 to 1940?
1. Anna Akhmatova⬅️
2. Boris Pasternak
3. Osip Mandelstam
4. Marina Tsvetayeva
8) Which 19th-century poet, novelist, and playwright is widely considered the father of modern Russian literature?
1. Aleksandr Ostrovsky
2. Ivan Goncharov
3. Aleksandr Pushkin⬅️
4. Mikhail Lermontov
9) Which historical pair are the subjects of the novel that “the Master” is writing in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita?
1. Pontius Pilate and Jesus⬅️
2. Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky
3. Mark Antony and Cleopatra
4. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
10) When was The Gulag Archipelago published?
A. 1973
B. 1958⬅️
C. 1968
D. 1974
11) Who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature for a work that was banned in the USSR?
A. Tatyana Yesenina
B. Andrei Zarin
C. Boris Pasternak⬅️
D. Vladimir Lenin
12) How many real brothers are there in The Brothers Karamazov?
A. 3⬅️
B. 5
C. 2
D. 9
13) Which poet and prose writer is known as Russia's national poet.
A. Pushkin⬅️
B. Lermontov
C. Minaev
D. Mandelshtam
14) Which writer spent time in a Siberian prison in the 19th century?
A. Babel
B. Dostoyevsky⬅️
C. Mandelshtam
D. Solzhenitsyn
15) Yuri Zivago was a
A. Poet
B. Chemist and Poet
C. Physicist and Poet⬅️
D. Mathematician
#RussianLiterature
1) Who wrote the 1859 novel Oblomov, whose lazy, daydreaming titular character satirizes the contemporary Russian nobility?
A. Andrey Bely
B. Ivan Goncharov ⬅️
C. Ivan Bunin
D. Vladimir Mayakovsky
2) What is the famous opening line of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina?
E. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
F. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.⬅️
G. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
H. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
3) What novel written by Nikolai Gogol traces the adventures of the landless social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune?
1. Dead Souls⬅️
2. Nevsky Prospect
3. The Overcoat
4. The Government Inspector
4) Which of the following Vladimir Nabokov works was originally written in his native Russian?
1. Bend Sinister
2. Invitation to a Beheading⬅️
3. Pale Fire
4. Pnin
5) What is the name of the central character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment?
1. Rodion Raskolnikov⬅️
2. Fyodor Karamazov
3. Prince Myshkin
4. Porfiry Petrovich
6) Which of the following is not a play written by famed Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov?
1. The Cherry Orchard
2. Uncle Vanya
3. Three Sisters
4. The Lower Depths⬅️
7) One of the few outspoken writers to survive Stalin’s regime, which poet was nevertheless prevented by the Soviet government from publishing any work from 1923 to 1940?
1. Anna Akhmatova⬅️
2. Boris Pasternak
3. Osip Mandelstam
4. Marina Tsvetayeva
8) Which 19th-century poet, novelist, and playwright is widely considered the father of modern Russian literature?
1. Aleksandr Ostrovsky
2. Ivan Goncharov
3. Aleksandr Pushkin⬅️
4. Mikhail Lermontov
9) Which historical pair are the subjects of the novel that “the Master” is writing in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita?
1. Pontius Pilate and Jesus⬅️
2. Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky
3. Mark Antony and Cleopatra
4. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
10) When was The Gulag Archipelago published?
A. 1973
B. 1958⬅️
C. 1968
D. 1974
11) Who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature for a work that was banned in the USSR?
A. Tatyana Yesenina
B. Andrei Zarin
C. Boris Pasternak⬅️
D. Vladimir Lenin
12) How many real brothers are there in The Brothers Karamazov?
A. 3⬅️
B. 5
C. 2
D. 9
13) Which poet and prose writer is known as Russia's national poet.
A. Pushkin⬅️
B. Lermontov
C. Minaev
D. Mandelshtam
14) Which writer spent time in a Siberian prison in the 19th century?
A. Babel
B. Dostoyevsky⬅️
C. Mandelshtam
D. Solzhenitsyn
15) Yuri Zivago was a
A. Poet
B. Chemist and Poet
C. Physicist and Poet⬅️
D. Mathematician
#RussianLiterature
Hope you're done with the Russians. Next on the menu are the French. The list is not exhaustive, will share more writers once we are done with these. #FrenchLiterature
#FrenchLiterature
1. La Comédie Humaine (The Human Comedy) -magnum opus
○ The Comédie humaine consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels or analytical essays) and 46 unfinished works
○ multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848)
○ a panoramic portrait of "all aspects of society"
○ originally called it Etudes des Mœurs ( literally 'Studies of manners', or 'The Ways of the World '
○ Selected Works:
§ Les Chouans (1829)
§ Sarrasine (1830) - (Roland Barthes' blow-by-blow analysis of the text in his book S/Z(1970). Barthes dissects the text in accordance with five "codes" (hermeneutic, semic, symbolic, proairetic and cultural).
§ La Peau de chagrin (1831) - (The Wild Ass's Skin or The Magic Skin)
§ Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (1831)
§ Le Colonel Chabert (1832)
§ Eugénie Grandet, (1833) his first best-seller.
§ Le Père Goriot (Old Father Goriot, 1835) - transposes the story of King Lear to 1820s Paris in order to rage at a society bereft of all love save the love of money.
2. Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature
3. "What a man he would have been had he known how to write! - Flaubert
4. W. H. Helm calls one "the French Dickens" - and Dickens "the English Balzac"
1. La Comédie Humaine (The Human Comedy) -magnum opus
○ The Comédie humaine consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels or analytical essays) and 46 unfinished works
○ multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848)
○ a panoramic portrait of "all aspects of society"
○ originally called it Etudes des Mœurs ( literally 'Studies of manners', or 'The Ways of the World '
○ Selected Works:
§ Les Chouans (1829)
§ Sarrasine (1830) - (Roland Barthes' blow-by-blow analysis of the text in his book S/Z(1970). Barthes dissects the text in accordance with five "codes" (hermeneutic, semic, symbolic, proairetic and cultural).
§ La Peau de chagrin (1831) - (The Wild Ass's Skin or The Magic Skin)
§ Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (1831)
§ Le Colonel Chabert (1832)
§ Eugénie Grandet, (1833) his first best-seller.
§ Le Père Goriot (Old Father Goriot, 1835) - transposes the story of King Lear to 1820s Paris in order to rage at a society bereft of all love save the love of money.
2. Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature
3. "What a man he would have been had he known how to write! - Flaubert
4. W. H. Helm calls one "the French Dickens" - and Dickens "the English Balzac"
• Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by scholar Claude Schopp and published in 2005
• It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier.
Works:
• The Conspirators (Le chevalier d'Harmental, 1843)
• The Regent's Daughter (Une Fille du régent, 1845). Sequel to The Conspirators.
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 1844–1846)
• The d'Artagnan Romances
1. The Three Musketeers, set between 1625 and 1628; first published in serial form in the magazine Le Siècle bebtween March and July 1844
2. Twenty Years After, set between 1648 and 1649; serialized from January to August, 1845.
3. The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, set between 1660 and 1673; serialized from October 1847 to January 1850
The Marie Antoinette romances
The Marie Antoinette romances comprise eight novels.
The Sainte-Hermine trilogy
• The Companions of Jehu (Les Compagnons de Jehu, 1857)
• The Whites and the Blues (Les Blancs et les Bleus, 1867)
The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, 1869)
#FrenchLiterature
• It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier.
Works:
• The Conspirators (Le chevalier d'Harmental, 1843)
• The Regent's Daughter (Une Fille du régent, 1845). Sequel to The Conspirators.
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 1844–1846)
• The d'Artagnan Romances
1. The Three Musketeers, set between 1625 and 1628; first published in serial form in the magazine Le Siècle bebtween March and July 1844
2. Twenty Years After, set between 1648 and 1649; serialized from January to August, 1845.
3. The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, set between 1660 and 1673; serialized from October 1847 to January 1850
The Marie Antoinette romances
The Marie Antoinette romances comprise eight novels.
The Sainte-Hermine trilogy
• The Companions of Jehu (Les Compagnons de Jehu, 1857)
• The Whites and the Blues (Les Blancs et les Bleus, 1867)
The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, 1869)
#FrenchLiterature
Novels:
• Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
• Les Misérables (1862) [Read summary]
• William Shakespeare (1864)
Plays:
• Cromwell
• Hernani
He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment.
In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages).
#FrenchLiterature
• Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
• Les Misérables (1862) [Read summary]
• William Shakespeare (1864)
Plays:
• Cromwell
• Hernani
He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment.
In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages).
#FrenchLiterature
• debut novel Madame Bovary (1857)
• took five years to write, was serialized in the Revue de Paris in 1856 (The government brought an action against the publisher and author on the charge of immorality, which was heard during the following year, but both were acquitted.)
• leading exponent of literary realism
short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
Works:
1. Memoirs of a Madman (1838)
2. Madame Bovary (1857)
3. Salammbô (1862)
4. Sentimental Education (1869)
5. Le Candidat (1874)
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874)
#FrenchLiterature
• took five years to write, was serialized in the Revue de Paris in 1856 (The government brought an action against the publisher and author on the charge of immorality, which was heard during the following year, but both were acquitted.)
• leading exponent of literary realism
short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
Works:
1. Memoirs of a Madman (1838)
2. Madame Bovary (1857)
3. Salammbô (1862)
4. Sentimental Education (1869)
5. Le Candidat (1874)
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874)
#FrenchLiterature