- May 9
- 19 min
How To Read A Book - Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
The book, I believe, is an indispensable guide to reading; why it resembles life and how it awakens us from the numbness of having to...
- May 6
- 2 min
Existential Helplessness and Suicide in Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai's 'No Longer Human' is a novel with a semi-autobiographical nerve; an account of the author's own struggles with depression,...
- Aug 25, 2021
- 3 min
Harold Bloom on the importance of reading children's literature
Harold Bloom recommends 41 stories and tales and 83 poems for children in his book, Stories And Poems For Extremely Intelligent Children...
- Aug 10, 2021
- 2 min
The symbolic significance of John Milton's Paradise Lost
Whether it is Satan awakening in Hell among the Rebel angels or the sentimental rigor with which Satan provokes the temptation and fall...
- Jul 9, 2021
- 2 min
The profoundly psychological world of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
A psychological study of an individual rather than a large group of people, so that it’s more private and intimate. That is what makes...