Introduce yourself

[Diotima]

I'm from ... and live in London, try to share my love for English Literature, so please correct me when I make mistakes...

Literature is my greatest passion, from fiction to poetry and from Homer to modern writers. My interests are law, politics, beekeeping, photography and of course reading.
I love this site and I have greater consideration for all the people here, coming to get their literary "fix" for the day, and talk about what they read, enlightening or seeking light.


All the best!

[Omo]

I'm from ... and live in London, try to share my love for English Literature, so please correct me when I make mistakes...

Literature is my greatest passion, from fiction to poetry and from Homer to modern writers. My interests are law, politics, beekeeping, photography and of course reading.
I love this site and I have greater consideration for all the people here, coming to get their literary "fix" for the day, and talk about what they read, enlightening or seeking light.


All the best!

Is your name refering to H?lderlin?

[Diotima]

Omo!

[Zahid Solangi]

Hello I Zahid and Student of European literature

[barefoot_heart]

Hi All,

I am Konul from Azerbaijan.
I read a lot of books so, when I was searching for particular group I found out about this forum which I liked a lot. I also noticed that you have Book Group the same I have been attending for a year now. It is Alumni Book Club and each month we choose a book and read it and we gather somewhere to discuss the selected book. On Sunday, November 1 we are going to have our one year anniversary. I would also like to join the group here. Books you have selected for upcoming months sound interesting and I would like to participate in discussions. How do I do that?

Cheers,
Konul

[Anna Steegmann]

Born in Germany, I moved to New York in 1980. For the past ten years I have been living in Harlem. I am a bilingual writer and translator. I teach writing at City College New York and the International Summer Academy Venice.

[Leena]

Hello. I'm Leena, 20yrs-old (originally from Middle East). Obsessed about books and reading, happy to find maniacs like me

I hope to be an active member here since I read in both Arabic and English.


xxx

[kkay]

i really feel that when i read, write, and share thoughts about literature that i am part of something so much larger than a race, sex, or national identity. i feel sometimes that i'm seen by others in a limited capacity but you can't see me! isn't it marvelous! although i did put the little flag on my post so there may be a presentiment based on my nationality.

i'm finishing my undergrad English degree so most of my reading is course related but have always enjoyed the classics. like most of you here, i'm a freak. rather be with a book and my dog than most humans. most recently re-read "Kafka on the Shore." anyone who is into a bit of metaphysical myth might try reading only the even chapters.

[Peeping Tom]

most recently re-read "Kafka on the Shore." anyone who is into a bit of metaphysical myth might try reading only the even chapters.

Welcome kkay!

Hmmm ... only the even numbered chapters? That would be the Nakata chapters. Have you ever read Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch (Rayuela)? He suggests several ways to read this novel: the regular way (the order in which the chapters appear) or an alternative way, beginning with Chapter 73, and proceeding with his suggested order (i.e. 73, 1, 2, 116, 3, 84 ... etc.).

[trille]

Im Trille, from Norway, student of literature. My interests are hmm...,

-contemporary literature.
-litarary theory, especially formalism, structuralism and Theodor Adorno.
-interpretation of contemporary works and authorships.
-philosophical aesthetics, especially Nietzsche.

I'm quite new to this form of communicating, but I'll do my best and hopefully share some interesting discussions with other geeks of literature

[Karen D]

Hello all,

I'm Karen and I am from Scotland, but recently moved to Hawaii.
I have an MA in Comp Lit from UCL and have been writing for about a year now.

[kkay]

Hi PT. I didn't realize there was a formula out there for reading Murakami's "Kafka." i got into it for a mythology class. did an essay using Campbell's hero quest monomyth theory and had intended to apply this to Kafka when i realized that Nakata was the more interenting character. when i read the Nakata chapters without the distraction of Kafka, it really read just like myth. i intend to check out the book you've quoted here. there's so much to learn and i feel like an idiot for being monolingual. i've got some catching up to do if i want to hang with you guys!

[David Maina Kariri]

Am a new member from Nairobi, Kenya.I tend to think that books have uplifted me in a manner that my literarary knowledge in language use is inadequite to explicitly explain .As someone engages with the most brightest brains in unpuzzling myrand of mysteries in this planet earth through the reading of books, There's nothing more poignant. may god forgive those leaders and persons who ban and censor the leading of literature for they do not knw what they are doing!!!! The likes of Ancient Greek philosophers

[David Maina Kariri]

Thanks ,its an enjoyable experience to be part of you.am a student african literature major,in this course 've comparative done comparative literature the only true literature for those who love literature is in Africa.Literature without prejudice.Indeed you cant say you love reading without having looked at these books.read these books bet u'l enjoy.

[Erec]

Hello all

I'm a student at the Katholic University of Leuven, in Belgium. I'm doing a paper on world literature and globalization. I have to read three articles that serve as theoretical background. Next I am supposed to do some research applying this theoretical background. These are the texts:

W. D. Mignolo, Globalization, Civilization Processes and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures

F. Moretti, Conjectures on World Literatrue

D. Damrosch, From the Old World to the Whole World

I was thinking about investigating the purpose and influence of specific literary rewards on world literature. Any tips? Authors, novels, articles, interviews, websites?

Thanks for reading!

[Becky Middleton]

Just a reader. Run to books. Sanctuary and haven to me. Always. I usually circle back to some favorites every few months/years. All I got. For now

[Eric]

Erec, as globalisation tends to be viewed as an economic thing, how does this fit in with a theory of world literature? Could you explain in one paragraph?

It is obvious that there is an enormous amount of cultural pressure, internationally, coming from the English-speaking countries. There is one-way traffic of cultural artefacts, especially literature, with every well-hyped author writing in English almost automatically being translated into many languages, but not the converse.

In other words, there will be no fair distribution and examination of world literature, unless the English-speaking countries start translating more, so they can join in the international debate, international movements, etc.

Tokenism is another danger. Some people in Britain and the USA appear to think that it is now the turn of African and Asian authors to be read and examined, ones usually writing in English, while authors writing in other languages from Europe are often ignored.

Finally, English, being the most widely spoken lingua franca in the world, should be a way of spreading smaller literatures, where direct translations are not likely or possible (e.g. a Finnish novel into Portuguese, or Latvian poems into Italian). But if no one translates these things into English, fewer people will read them. German publishing houses translate quite a lot of Scandinavian, Baltic and Dutch material into German. So that language is the route you have to take if you want to read smaller languages.

So, is there globalisation of literature or not? Is it a good thing? How can things be improved? Please summarise some of the arguments from the three essays you mention. And could you tell us whether these three essays are available online?

[Nino Darbaiseli]

Hi everybody!
My name is Nino Darbaiseli - Georgian Poet and Doctor of philology, Tbilisi, Georgia.
I am happy I found this site.

[Mariano]

I'll go first. Name is Stewart and I'm from Glasgow, UK. Not yet thirty and with a manic interest in reading, which has been developing into a worldwide concern. I read and review books on my blog, booklit and have been doing so for almost a year now.

Hello
I'm so glad I finally found a place to share my views about my favourite reading. I have just registered so I have to discover it yet.

[kpjayan]

God , for a moment I thought you were Rudi Koertzen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Blame my cricket enthusiasm.

Welcome to the forum!