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Vor 4 Tagen · In “Gould’s Book of Fish,” Flanagan masterfully blends historical fact with imaginative fiction. The novel follows the life of William Buelow Gould, a real-life convict artist, as he navigates the harsh realities of life in a nineteenth-century penal colony. Through Gould’s eyes, readers are transported to the brutal world of Van Diemen ...
Vor 3 Tagen · The story is set in an unnamed penal colony and describes the last use of an elaborate torture and execution device that carves the sentence of the condemned prisoner on his skin as he slowly dies over the course of twelve hours. As the plot unfolds, the reader learns more and more about the machine, including its origin and original ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Throughout this unfailingly ambitious work, Messud oscillates between modes, from a saga about a family that is defined by the loss of their adopted home to one that, in fits and starts, moves ...
16. Mai 2024 · She spent much of that time in a remote penal colony before she was pardoned in 2013. More recently, "Virgin Mary, Please Become a Feminist"—a piece featuring artwork hand-drawn on a digitized copy of her 2012 prison sentencing documents—and the short art film "Putin's Ashes" landed her on the Russian Interior Ministry's wanted list for 2023.
Vor 4 Tagen · Terminal Boredom by Izumi Suzuki: Suzuki is a cult figure in Japanese literature—possibly due to her early career as a pink films actor or her hyperactive output after the death by overdose of her jazz musician husband—or her taking her own life in 1986. Her legacy is best known for the prolific output she left behind with punky short fiction.
Vor 3 Tagen · The book consists of thought provoking interpretations of 24 Kafka short stories, based around entirely new and modern translations. Franz Kafka's writings have long been analysed and debated in the academic world, in search of a definitive meaning, through a plethora of interpretations. This, along with the complex nature of the works themselves, have made Kafka's literature mostly the realm ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Some 63 ‘penal expeditions’ were launched between 1891 and1897 to suppress non-compliant Africans in the interior of colonies, and violence was also very much present in everyday colonial relations, evident, in particular, in the ubiquitous recourse to corporal punishment as a medium of discipline.
