Tag: Fiction

Free Download Continuum: French Science Fiction Short Stories edited by Annabelle Dolidon, Tessa Sermet
English | April 9, 2024 | ISBN: 1947845470 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 3.7 MB
Classic French science fiction short stories translated into English for the first time.

Free Download Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, "Brief Encounters with the Enemy: Fiction"
English | 2013 | pages: 240 | ISBN: 0812993586 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
The first short story collection from a writer who calls to mind such luminaries as Denis Johnson, George Saunders, and Nathan Englander

Free Download Beckett’s Dantes : Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism By Caselli, Daniela; Beckett, Samuel; Dante Alighieri
2006 | 241 Pages | ISBN: 0719071569 | PDF | 2 MB
This is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is a clear and innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante’s works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. Caselli gives an original intertextual reading of Beckett’s work, detecting previously unknown quotations, allusions to, and parodies of Dante in Beckett’s fiction and criticism.

Free Download Owning Up: New Fiction (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CFCHM5FH | 2024 | 5 hours and 38 minutes | MP3@128 kbps | 310 MB
Author: George Pelecanos
Narrator: Dion Graham
Four blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity, from esteemed crime fiction writer George Pelecanos; "Like his hero Elmore Leonard, Pelecanos finds the humanity in the lowest of lowlifes." When the son of the Carusos is involved in a hold up, the family home comes under siege in the form of a no-knock warrant. Months after the cops destroyed their home, the Carusos struggle to return to normal. Elsewhere, two former inmates reunite by chance on the set of a TV production.

Free Download Garry Young, "Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1793639191 | 2021 | 276 pages | EPUB | 822 KB
It is commonplace for fictional content to depict immoral activities: the kidnapping of a politician, for example, or the elaborate theft of a national treasure, or perhaps the gruesome proclivities of a sadistic murderer. These and similar depictions can be found across a range of media, and in varying degrees of detail and realism. Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction examines potential conditions for transforming fictional immorality into immoral fiction, in order to establish what makes a depiction of fictional immorality and/or one’s engagement with it immoral. To achieve this aim, Garry Young analyzes fictional content, its meaning, one’s motivation for engaging with it, and the medium in which the fiction is presented (such as film, literature, theatre, video games) using philosophical inquiry. The end result is a systematic examination of fictional immorality, which contributes toward debates on the morality of depicting and engaging with fictional immorality, as well as the reach of censorship and other forms of prohibition, especially when the act depicted is of the kind that would be most egregious if carried out in reality.

Free Download David Gantt Gurley, "Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0815634722, 0815634862 | PDF | pages: 278 | 1.6 mb
Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt and the Poetics of Jewish Fiction presents a bold new reading of one of Denmark’s greatest writers of the nineteenth century, situating him, first and foremost, as a Jewish artist. Offering an alternative to the nationalistic discourse so prevalent in the scholarship, Gurley examines Goldschmidt’s relationship to the Hebrew Bible and later rabbinical traditions, such as the Talmud and the Midrash. At the same time, he shows that Goldschmidt’s midrashic style in a secular context predates certain narrative movements within Modern-ism that are usually associated with the twentieth century and especially Czech writer Franz Kafka. Goldschmidt was remarkable in his era, both as a writer who explored his peripheral identity in the mainstream of European culture and as a writer of the first truly Jewish bildungsroman. In this groundbreaking study of Goldschmidt’s narrative art, Gurley refashions his position in both the Danish and Jewish literary canons and introduces his extraordinary work to a wider, non-Scandinavian audience.

Free Download Daniela Caselli, "Beckett’s Dantes: Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0719071577 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 0.6 mb
Beckett’s Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante’s works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative intertextual reading of Beckett’s work, detecting previously unknown quotations, allusions to, and parodies of Dante in Beckett’s fiction and criticism. The volume interprets Dante in the original Italian (as it appears in Beckett), translating into English all Italian quotations. It benefits from a multilingual approach based on Beckett’s published works in English and French, and on manuscripts (which use English, French, German and Italian). Through a close reading of Beckett’s fiction and criticism, the book will argue that Dante is both assumed as an external source of literary and cultural authority in Beckett’s work, and also participates in Beckett’s texts’ sceptical undermining of authority. Moreover, the book demonstrates that the many references to various ‘Dantes’ produce ‘Mr Beckett’ as the figure of the author responsible for such a remarkably interconnected oeuvre. The book is aimed at the scholarly communities interested in literatures in English, literary and critical theory, comparative literature and theory, French literature and theory and Italian studies. Its jargon-free style will also attract third-year or advanced undergraduate students, and postgraduate students, as well as those readers interested in the unusual relationship between one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and the medieval author who stands for the very idea of the Western canon.

Free Download Rachael Sealy Lynch, "Tuberculosis and Irish Fiction, 1800-2022: A Lingering Condition "
English | ISBN: 3031403444 | 2024 | 246 pages | EPUB, PDF | 774 KB + 4 MB
This book focuses on Ireland’s lived experience of tuberculosis as represented in the nation’s fiction; not surprisingly, the disease both manifests and conceals itself with devastating frequency in literature as it did in life. It seeks to place the history of tuberculosis in Ireland, from 1800 until after its virtual eradication in the mid-Twentieth Century, in conversation with fictional representations or repressions of a condition so fearsome that until very recently it was usually referred to by code words and euphemisms rather than by its name.

Free Download Miguel Coimbra, "The Science Fiction & Fantasy Quiz Book"
English | 2017 | pages: 198 | ISBN: 1472829042 | EPUB | 8,6 mb
In J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, what is the name of Tom Bombadil’s wife? Which character does Scarlett Johansson play in the 2012 film The Avengers? Who is the protagonist of the video game The Legend of Zelda? Which barbarian hero carried a sword called "Graywand"?

Free Download Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran? By Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami
2014 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 2014009244 | PDF | 4 MB
The main focus of Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction is to identify components and elements which define Persian modernist fiction, placing an emphasis on literary concepts and devices which provide the dynamics of the evolutionary trajectory of this modernism. 　The question of ‘who writes Iran’ refers to a contested area which goes beyond the discipline of literary criticism. Non-literary discourses have made every effort to impose their "committed" readings on literary texts; they have even managed to exert influence on the process of literary creation. In this process, inevitably, many works, or segments of them, and many concepts which do not lend themselves to such readings have been ignored; at the same time, many of them have been appropriated by these discourses. Yet components and elements of Persian literary tradition have persistently engaged in this discursive confrontation, mainly by insisting on literature’s relative autonomy, so that at least concepts such as conformity and subterfuge, essential in terms of defining modern and modernist Persian fiction, could be defined in a literary manner.Proffering an alternative in terms of literary historiography; this book supports a methodological approach that considers literary narratives which occur in the margins of dominant discourses, and indeed promote non-discursivity, as the main writers of Persian modernist fiction. It is an essential resource for scholars and researchers interested in Persian and comparative literature, as well as Middle Eastern Studies more broadly.