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A Novel by Charles Dickens It is quite
difficult to write about the novels written by Charles Dickens, as you have to
be one among the thousands of those writers and reviewers who have done the job
earlier. But I am so fascinated by the charm and attraction I had felt while
reading ‘A Tale Of Two Cities’ that I could not do without putting my efforts
to show how I felt while reading this masterpiece.
The love relationship of two unusual characters, Lucy Manette and Charles Darney passed through the time narrated by Dickens as ‘It was the best of the times, it was the worst of the times’. The couple made their way through strange circumstances. They were caught in a storm of the revolutionary atmosphere of late eighteenth-century France. And they would have hardly passed through it without offering abnormal responses to the situations they were forced to face.
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By the novel ‘Disgrace’, J M COETZEE has become the first novelist to pocket the Man Booker Prize twice. In ‘Disgrace’ he tries
painting the landscape of a country, South Africa, where the regime trading
apartheid has just closed its shutters and people are yet to be adjusted to
climate change. They have a multitude of newly formed rules and the wings of
the changed perception of their own. |
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SLOW MAN -by J M Coetzee |
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The novel SLOW MAN starts with a
great fall and then turns into a river, taking us over to the distant regions. In this highly symbolic novel, the subject matter flows like a
wide waterway. J M Coetzee tries to define the region wherein both fiction and reality lives in the neighbourhood, having a common entrance and exit doors. |
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MY NAME IS RED - A Novel by ORHAN PAMUK |
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In 'MY NAME IS
RED' there is a number of point of views, and the several storytellers. But
that has barely affected the flow of the narrative in the novel: Orhan Pamuk
is such a master of keeping continuity. Primarily the novel walks around the life of the miniature artists living in Istanbul of the late sixteenth century. But it depicts all types of human follies and
demonstrates how the negative forces sway over the positive ones. |
