With a decline in religion, he realized and feared that most people will fall into a state of nihilism. Religion, in this case being Christianity, supplies us with a meaning and explanation for all the suffering, hardships, and events in the world. The positive consequences of the decline of Christianity that Nietzsche realized was that we Westerners can determine for ourselves what we value and what is moral or immoral to ourselves, and that we would no longer be tied to some supposed idea of an objective “good and evil.” The negative consequences that he realized was that almost everyone needs a sense of meaning in a world that appears random and meaningless. One of the main problems Nietzsche highlighted was that atheism and the “Death of God” had consequences, both positive and negative. The “DEATH OF GOD,” NIHILSIM, EQUALITY FOR ALL Yet, Nietzsche was so brilliant and ahead of his time, he foresaw that the causes and symptoms of collapse in Germany and the Western world were already solidified. This time period was the start of the peak for the German and Western Industrialization and a greater increase of wealth and standard of living. Nietzsche wrote this book between the years 1883 to 1885. We must surpass and overcome ourselves is Nietzsche’s conclusion as to how we can move forward as mankind, especially in the Western world. The great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s most famous book, “Thus Spake Zarathustra,” provides us with a solution.
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“Best Friends” (1987) was also a World Fantasy finalist, and “The Deep End” (1987) and “Eat Me” (1990) won Stoker Awards. His story “Nightcrawlers” (1984) was a World Fantasy Award finalist and was adapted as an episode of The Twilight Zone in 1985. He began publishing short fiction in 1981. His debut Baal appeared in 1979, followed by Bethany’s Sin (1980), The Night Boat (1980), They Thirst (1981), Mystery Walk (1983), Usher’s Passing (1984), Stoker Award winner and World Fantasy Award finalist Swan Song (1988), Stoker Award finalists Stinger (1988) and The Wolf’s Hour (1989), and Stoker Award winner Mine (1991). McCammon began his career as a horror writer, and wrote numerous acclaimed and bestselling novels as Robert R. He received a BA in journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974, and worked on the copy desk at a local paper before becoming a full-time writer. R obert Rick McCammon was born Jin Birmingham AL, where he has lived all his life. “4 3 2 1” is indeed a doorstop of forking paths.Īll four Archie Fergusons share the same origin story, one that has much in common with Auster’s: a paternal grandfather who arrives in the United States with a Jewish name, which gets converted to something more Gentile-friendly on Ellis Island a family history marred by murder an emotionally remote, entrepreneurial father a childhood in suburban New Jersey, a place that Archie, in all his incarnations, comes to detest. “Clearly you’ve read Borges by now,” the faculty adviser remarks to one of these iterations of Archie Ferguson, a character who, like most of Auster’s heroes, is fanatically bookish. In “4 3 2 1” (Holt), Auster’s first novel in seven years and, at eight hundred and sixty-six pages, the longest by far of any book he has published, a single man’s life unfolds along four narrative arcs, from birth to early adulthood. It’s an idea that resonates through the work of the writer Paul Auster, in whose fiction both selves and stories are precarious constructions, fascinating but unstable, more illusion than reality. Illustration by Sébastien PlassardĪccording to a currently popular line of philosophy, a self is merely the sum of all the stories we tell about a particular human body. Auster’s summarizing style of narration closes like a fist around the proceedings. In 2003, Lecter, as portrayed by Hopkins, was named the greatest villain in American cinema by the American Film Institute. In the NBC television series Hannibal (2013 –2015), which focuses on Lecter's relationship with Graham, Lecter was played by Mads Mikkelsen, who won the Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television for his performance. He was played in the 2007 film adaptation by Gaspard Ulliel. The fourth novel, Hannibal Rising (2006), explores Lecter's childhood and development into a serial killer. Hopkins reprised the role for the 2001 adaptation of the 1999 novel Hannibal, which sees Lecter evading recapture, and for a second adaptation of Red Dragon in 2002. Lecter had a larger role in The Silence of the Lambs (1988) the 1991 film adaptation starred Anthony Hopkins as Lecter, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Lecter first appeared in a small role as a villain in Harris' 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon, which was adapted into the film Manhunter (1986), with Brian Cox as Lecter (spelled "Lecktor"). Before his capture, he was a respected forensic psychiatrist after his incarceration, he is consulted by FBI agents Will Graham and Clarice Starling to help them find other serial killers. Lecter is a serial killer who eats his victims. Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character created by the novelist Thomas Harris. Revenue projections never materialized, documents for deals with pharma giants were not shown and there were consistent product delays.
But Broder’s goes deeper than allegory-with humanity, sardonic wit, and erotic scenes so potent that the heat of my blushing face made my NYC-apartment radiator’s seem tepid, Milk-Fed vividly evokes the lives of each woman, so that we’re fully invested in them, whether or not they seem recognizable to us. In another writer’s hands, the two women and their relationship might have presented as little more than a literary device to lead us to Rachel’s awakening, and that certainly could have been effective. Broder has a rare ability to ground her fantasy in reality without undermining her her imaginative vision, making it feel personal and raw and relatable. Broder can make even a cranky secular-Jewish queer reader like me, who typically chafes at magical realism and wet-blankets flights of fancy, eagerly suspend disbelief. Alice pores over Nellie’s letters to her mother (mysteriously never mailed) to learn the minutiae of her life as a slightly bored housewife-the cooking, cleaning, and Tupperware parties. But when Alice discovers a cookbook and letters left behind by the house’s previous owner, Nellie Murdoch, she gets more inspiration than she bargained for. The free time may even give her more of a chance to start her novel-writing career. But her husband has long wanted to move out of the city, and Alice, recently out of a job, feels like she doesn’t have a reason to say no. A wife in 2018 discovers letters and a cookbook from her house’s previous inhabitant-and realizes that their lives might not be so different.Īlice Hale doesn’t want to move from her tiny Manhattan apartment to a fixer-upper in the suburbs. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper-a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son-but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. The bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. She doesn't want to shackle herself to another man in marriage, but sometimes, she wonders if she is lonely. Her marriage to Reverend Isaiah Tavernor was one of service and obedience, and she has secretly enjoyed her freedom since his death. Lydia Tavernor, recently widowed, dreams of taking a lover. Though Harry insists he enjoys the solitude, he does wonder sometimes if he is lonely. After a harrowing recovery, the once cheery, light-hearted boy has become a reclusive, somber man. When Harry Westcott lost the title Earl of Riverdale after the discovery of his father's bigamy, he shipped off to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, where he was near-fatally wounded. Tavernor must decide in the new novel in the Westcott series from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh. Is love worth the loss of one's freedom and independence? This is what Mrs. It is the heart of the man who was her loverĪnd it is less damaged than the heart inside her chest. There is the one she keeps in her bureau-īurnt about the edges and stinking of salt. Pulling from the biographical accounts of these amazing authors, these poems beautifully examine the nature of art and creation, reading and consumption, and how monsters are really reflections of ourselves. Its journey carries it across continents and time, visiting other female authors throughout the decades - Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Octavia Butler, and others. Abandoned and alone after Shelley’s death, the monster searches for a mother to fill her place. In Octavia Cade's brilliant collection of poetry Mary Shelley Makes a Monster (Aqueduct Press, 2019), the famous author of Frankenstein crafts a creature out of ink, mirrors, and the remnants of her own heartbreak and sorrow. |