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Robert Penn Warren

    24 april 1905 – 15 september 1989

    Robert Penn Warren was een cruciale Amerikaanse auteur wiens werk de complexiteit van menselijke moraliteit en maatschappelijke structuren diepgaand onderzoekt. Als sleutelfiguur van de New Criticism vormde hij benaderingen van literaire analyse, terwijl zijn eigen geschriften doordringende inzichten bieden in de psychologie van personages. Warren gebruikte taal meesterlijk om rijke beelden en meeslepende verhalen te creëren die de lezer uitdagen om na te denken over de blijvende vragen van goed en kwaad. Zijn kenmerkende stem en literaire betekenis resoneren nog steeds.

    Robert Penn Warren
    American Literature 1
    American Literature. The Makers and the Making. Volume II
    Wilderness
    The Cave
    The World of the Short Story
    All the King's Men: Movie Tie-In Edition
    • In his sixth novel, The Cave (1959), Robert Penn Warren tells the story of a young man trapped in a cave in fictional Johntown, Tennessee. His predicament becomes the center of national attention as television cameras, promoters, and newscasters converge on the small town to exploit the rescue attempts and the thousands of spectators gathered at the mouth of the cave.

      The Cave2006
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    • The World of the Short Story

      A 20th Century Collection

      • 847bladzijden
      • 30 uur lezen

      At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

      The World of the Short Story1986
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    • Román byl inspirován osudem reálné osobnosti kentuckého politika, který pokrytecky získá moc, ale ztrácí dceru. V románu se prolínají dramatické osudy lidí, ovlivněných událostmi kolem politické vraždy, k níž došlo ve 20. letech v Tennesee.

      U nebeských bran1979
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    • Ústrednou otázkou je vzťah dobra a zla - obe tieto hodnoty autor vidí v dialektickej jednote, pričom často mu vychádza, že zlo sa rodí aj z dobrých pohnútok... autor dostal za román Pulitzerovu cenu

      Guvernér1976
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    • Román významného soudobého amerického spisovatele líčí život malého městečka na americkém jihu, odsouzeného k zániku pod vodami mohutné přehrady.

      Potopa1974
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