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"هذا الكتاب المفروض كل البشرية تقرأه. يعني اتمنى لو اعطيت هذا الكتاب بعمر ال ٢٠ كان تفاديت علاقات كثيرة مؤذية، والأهم معرفة نمطي بالعلاقات. بعده تحس انك تفهم كل احد حولك وماعاد تشره ع احد ليه هم كذا متخلفين وسايكو.." — Jun 03, 2024 05:22AM
"هذا الكتاب المفروض كل البشرية تقرأه. يعني اتمنى لو اعطيت هذا الكتاب بعمر ال ٢٠ كان تفاديت علاقات كثيرة مؤذية، والأهم معرفة نمطي بالعلاقات. بعده تحس انك تفهم كل احد حولك وماعاد تشره ع احد ليه هم كذا متخلفين وسايكو.." — Jun 03, 2024 05:22AM
“The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.”
― How to Read Literature
― How to Read Literature
“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man’s own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this “nausea,” as a writer of today calls it, is also the absurd.”
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“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
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“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
― Metamorphosis
― Metamorphosis
“Literary works are pieces of rhetoric as well as reports. They demand a peculiarly vigilant kind of reading, one which is alert to tone, mood, pace, genre, syntax, grammar, texture, rhythm, narrative structure, punctuation, ambiguity – in fact to everything that comes under the heading of ‘form’.”
― How to Read Literature
― How to Read Literature
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