‘Everyone asks me that,” replies Imre Kertész when I ask, isn’t it ironic that he spends so much time in Berlin? “It’s not ironic, because it was in Germany that I made an impact as a writer, where my book was understood and published. I felt I could say something. I could do something. And [...]
11/01/2008
Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Human morality and the laws of Nature
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy’s poetry, first published in his fifties, has come to be [...]
