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Destiny of a great decadent Roussel’s main literary output comprised the two novels Locus Solus and Impressions d’Afrique, adaptions of his fiction for theatre, the long poem Nouvelles Impressions d�Afrique, and a posthumously published work in which he set out … Continue reading →

Per chi vota il Mago di Oz Ma ci sono altre interpretazione nella lunga storia degli studi su Oz. Una � arrivata in Italia sulle pagine di �Ideazione�, il pensatoio del centro destra, che ha rievocato il centenario nel numero … Continue reading →

The Wizard of Oz: An American Fairytale A Library of Congress Exhibition.

Braccelli: Bizzarie di Varie Figure The Bizzarie (Livorno, 1624) can rightly lay claim to being a prime exemplar of the artistic enigma � a work truly without precedent or explanation beside itself. Its sensuous imagery, occupying a dreamlike space between … Continue reading →

My soul is a strange factory TRY this. Your first sentence is “Time is money” and your last sentence is “Thyme is funny”. Write the story – long or short – that joins the two. Be imaginative, but please stick … Continue reading →

ALISON LURIE: The Oddness of OzThe year 2000 is the centenary of a famous and much-loved but essentially very odd children’s classic: L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz. Those who recall the story only from childhood reading, or from … Continue reading →

Enchanting visions of fairyland We cannot get rid of the past, even if we try to. Just as history constantly informs the present, so childhood stays with us, shaping our gestures and responses. If the child makes the man, it … Continue reading →

Children’s Christmas books Recommendations from the Electronic Telegraph’s BooksOnLine

Boing! Pop-Up Books Are Growing Up Pop-up books may be the literary preserve of children, but lately the whirligig pages of flaps, foldouts, pull- tabs and double wheels are moving frenetically to attract grown-ups.The New York Times

So Elegant, So Intelligent T. S. ELIOT knew that his carefully constructed persona could be forbidding. He satirized himself, gently but tellingly, in a piece of light verse: How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot! With his features of clerical cut,And … Continue reading →