October 13th, 2013 | by Janantoon | published in Engelse literatuur | Comments Off on Alice Munro, proficiat
Dat Alice Munro de Nobelprijs Literatuur gewonnen heeft is natuurlijk geen nieuws meer. Dit is dan ook geen nieuwssite. Maar het doet me wel plezier. Dit betekent mogelijk een herwaardering van het genre kortverhaal dat veel te dikwijls in de schaduw leeft van de romen. Een andere kanshebber in dit genre was zonder twijfel William […]
March 13th, 2013 | by Janantoon | published in Boeken Janantoon | Comments Off on Alice Munro, Dear Life
From the story The Eye:
When I was five years old my parents all of a sudden produced a baby boy, which my mother said was what I had always wanted. Where she got this idea I did not know. She did quite a bit of elaborating on it, all fictitious but hard to counter.
May 19th, 2010 | by Janantoon | published in Engelse literatuur, English texts | Comments Off on short stories by Truman Capote and Alice Munro
I just read two volumes of short stories. Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness. Both collections contain a rather longish story, or novella, and both gave the name to their respective collection. Of course, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is very well known thanks to the film with the same name, starring […]
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