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#OTD in 1726.
The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre is published. Swift claimed that he wrote it "to vex the world rather than divert it".
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17157
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
S00E04. SCP-6001: Avalon
https://beforethefuture.space/podcast/s00e04-scp-6001-avalon/
#article #binti #cats #epistolary #fanfic #grief #incarceration #literature #novella #pacifism #phenomenology #pussy #queerTheory #rutherford #SCP #theWildRobot #visionStatements
So this is done? I'm tired!!
if you're in the UK/EU, print copies are going to be available...
Themes:
#Caribbean #puertorico #postcolonial #performanceart #photography #literature #afroindigenous
dm me if interested
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
Read the first reviews of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
By Dan Sheehan via @LitHub
"For Mr Orwell, the most honest writer alive, hypocrisy is too dreadful for laughter: it feeds his despair."
https://lithub.com/read-the-first-reviews-of-george-orwells-nineteen-eighty-four/
Read the first reviews of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. George Orwell’s dystopian masterwork, Nineteen Eight-Four, was first published seventy-four years ago today. Set in a …Literary Hub
....retelling these folktales is an important part of cultural preservation & evolution, as .. oral traditions face extinction. Many #stories disappeared during the colonial period, when written western #literature was privileged & bans on vernacular languages, containing communities’ #cultures & #history were enforced"
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/apr/10/african-film-makers-reimagine-folktales-as-dark-fantasy-dramas-for-netflix
African film-makers reimagine folktales as dark fantasy dramas for Netflix
The six films include the tale of an ogre who preys on women, a sci-fi Nigeria taken over by AI, and a girl on a mission to end droughtCaroline Kimeu (The Guardian)
I’m also curious about who was writing about what and when, and who kept these books for so long. This is a fascinating glimpse into the past. If only books could talk!
(Coming soon to) #Amazon #Books #Literature