Literature &Thought Provoking Entropy | 09 Jun 2010
“It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be [...]
Literature Entropy | 24 Feb 2010
Literature Nobel laureate Isacc Bashevis Singer -(1902 -1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American author noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement. Singer wrote autobiographical and fantasy tales for children which are deeply rooted in the lost cultural tradition of his native Poland. The stories he [...]
Literature Entropy | 15 Dec 2009
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 is awarded to the German author Herta Müller– “Who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”. Writing as Living Herta Müller has lived through the kind of vicious absurdity that most can only imagine. A member of Romania’s German [...]
Books &Literature Entropy | 26 May 2009
This is an enlightening excerpt from a review of Zbigniew Herbert’s book “Barbarian in the Garden” his remarkable collection of essays that constitute a ruminative tour of the architectural landmarks of European civilization. The polish poet and essayist who insisted that civilization depended on artists’ staking out clear moral positions resistant to the winds of [...]
Literature &Poetry Entropy | 22 Feb 2009
Wislawa Szymborska is a philosophically inflected poet who investigates unanswerable questions with immense élan and delicacy. This particular poem has deeper meaning and inferences in philosophy, biology and psychology. Like all her poems, this one takes us to the edge of an abyss. The title “Autotomy” is biological term for the capacity of certain living [...]
Literature &Poetry Entropy | 23 Nov 2008
I’ve once again returned to Szymborska’s Poem. This is one of her signature poems where she playfully investigates the nature of the poetic imagination. It muses about the relationship between words & things, and illuminates the character of poetic making.. As such this my fifth post on her work.. Why does this written doe bound [...]