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Kean by Jean-Paul Sartre

Kean by Jean-Paul Sartre (1953) Based on the play by Alexander Dumas Translated from the French by Kitty Black The Devil and the Good Lord and Two Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre (New York: Vintage, 1960)Related posts: See this post for an introduction to Edmund Kean and some history on Dumas’ and Sartre’s plays. This […]

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Great Battles Lecture: Hannibal’s Secret Weapon in the Second Punic War

Dr. Patrick Hunt, Stanford University, speaks. Hannibal, a Carthaginian commander who lived ca. 200 BCE, is considered one of the greatest military commanders in history. His use of the environment in his warfare against Rome in the Second Punic War—often called the Hannibalic War—set precedents in military history, utilizing nature and weather conditions as weapons […]

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Fateless by Imre Kertész

“But who can judge what is possible or believable in a concentration camp? Who could explore, exhaust all those countless ideas, inventions, games, jokes, and ponderable theories, which are easily accessible and transferable from a make-believe world of fantasy into a concentration-camp reality? You couldn’t, even if you mustered the totality of your knowledge.” (148) […]

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Imre Kertész in The Paris Review

Here’s an excerpt from The Paris Review’s interview with Imre Kertész. One quote from it: To me, there were three phases, in a literary sense. The first phase is the one just before the Holocaust. Times were tough, but you could get through somehow. The second phase, described by writers like Primo Levi, takes place […]