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• What to Read and Watch This Week: The Enigma of Human History

  By Audrey Chan on August 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  As many postmodern writers like Umberto Eco claim, the history familiar to us is merely an artificial construction and thus a ‘reality’ made out of falsehoods is crafted. The postmodern notion of history as an accumulated product of multiple falsehoods… Read More ›

• A Brain Made Out of Straight Lines: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  By Rachel Sin on August 2, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  What would you do if you find your neighbour’s dog dead in front of your doorstep in the middle of the night? Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old boy with “behavioural problems” decided to take the role of the detective himself. In… Read More ›

• Post-War Spain According to Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Scars of War on the City and Its People

  By Rachel Sin on July 31, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The Labyrinth of the Spirits (2016) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is the 4th and last installment of the series The Cemetery of Forgotten Books. Each of them an independent narrative held together by a space called the “Cemetery of Forgotten Books”, where… Read More ›

• The Speculatus of Self: The Author and His Literary Persona in Paul Auster’s Ghosts

  By Audrey Chan on July 29, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Following the publication of City of Glass in 1985, Ghosts was published in the following years, which is the second novel of Auster’s bestselling collection The New York Trilogy (1987). City of Glass emphasises on the theme of the crisis… Read More ›

• What to Read and Watch This Week: The Lost Generation

  By Audrey Chan on July 29, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Yesterday marked the 105th Anniversary of World War I, one of the most massive watersheds of geopolitical history in the 20th century. The Great War led to the downfall of the Central Powers and four great imperial dynasties. It resulted… Read More ›

• The Fantastic Symmetries and Repetitions: The Conspiracy Theory of the Moon Landing in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining

  By Audrey Chan on July 26, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  We all know about Apollo 11, the first spaceflight that landed on the Moon in human history. But was it really “one giant leap for mankind?” Or was it just a giant fraud that propagandised the greatness of America during… Read More ›

• Cleansing the Trauma of the Lost Generation: Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

  By Audrey Chan on July 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Ernest Hemingway’s first published novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), set in the 1920s, is about the polyamorous affairs between a group of lost young souls. The aimless drifting actions of the characters in the Fiesta in Spain metaphorically echoes… Read More ›

• The Matryoshka Doll of Dreams: The Adam of the Divinity and the Golem of Mankind in Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Circular Ruins”

  By Audrey Chan on July 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Many postmodern writers convey the inadequacy of mankind’s imagination to the infinity of the universe with endless repetitions of sublime imageries. In Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones (1944), the imagery of an exitless labyrinth is often employed in his short stories… Read More ›

• What to Read and Watch This Week: The Moon

  By Audrey Chan on July 22, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  50 years ago yesterday, Apollo 11, the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon returned to our planet. Growing up listening to the tales of Artemis and Chang’e, the Moon has been a land of fantasy for us since… Read More ›

• Féerie in the Cinema: Pataphysics in Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon

  By Audrey Chan on July 19, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Long before Apollo landed on the Moon in the 1960s, writers and filmmakers had already dreamt of making voyages to the mysterious planet. Inspired by Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Around the Moon (1870) and H.G…. Read More ›

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