Posted on November 7, 2007 by sulhanudin
Summary: A Texas writer who listens to “Soul Mountain” while driving in his car around Houston describes Gao Xingjian’s ambivalence towards the modern novel and traditional storytelling.
The Peripatetic Novel
This review is a little special: it’s about a book I heard completely while driving around in my car. I recently returned to my home town, Houston, [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2007 by sulhanudin
The second oldest of five siblings was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to Southern Baptist parents of modest means. His father worked as a construction worker and a cotton farmer; his mother was a homemaker.[1] After moving frequently, the family settled in 1967 in the town of Southaven in De Soto County, Mississippi, where Grisham graduated [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2007 by sulhanudin
Out of Place: a memoir is the account of Edward Said’s life prior to his professional career. As such, it helps to explain some of the many paradoxes of Said’s identity as a public intellectual, literary theorist and political activist. The conditions of Said’s life are crucial to an understanding of his theories, [...]
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