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Adam Burgess
I can’t write a long review on this one, because I just don’t feel up to it. I’m not a philosopher but, that being said, Sartre (and the translator) certainly made existentialism, to an extent, accessible to me as someone rather unfamiliar with the… Continue Reading “Review: Existentialism and Human Emotion by Jean-Paul Sartre”
Summary: Plato’s Five Dialogues includes essays which recount the days leading up to Socrates’ trial for “corrupting the youths of Athens”, as well as Socrates’ defense (apologia) to the jury, and his final conversation with his closest friends before his induced suicide by hemlock.… Continue Reading “Review: Five Dialogues by Plato”
Summary: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is a resounding cry for help for the working class. Willy Loman, the play’s main character, is a traveling salesman, always on the road and so far removed from his family (physically & emotionally) that he is… Continue Reading “Review: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller”
Summary: Watership Down is like a psychic-Rabbit equivalent of The Grapes of Wrath, except Richard Adams is not quite the writer that John Steinbeck is. At the start, a small group of rabbits from a relatively peaceful, advantageous warren leave their home at the… Continue Reading “Review: Watership Down by Richard Adams”
Summary: William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is an exploration of family, society, and mortality. The Bundren family, led by their bumbling but ultimately calculating father, travels by horse and buggy from their small farm into the city of Jefferson, Alabama to bury their… Continue Reading “Review: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner”
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