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 In this post, I shall review  The Little Prince (   Le Petit Prince) , a novella by  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry .   Published in 1943,  The Little Prince became  Antoine's most successful and best known work. In many ways,  The Little Prince is  a labour of love.  This world renown novella is what Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a   French aristocrat, writer, and military pilot is best known for. Antoine had quite an interesting and eventful life!  The Little Prince  contains some autobiographical elements. It might be what adds that special something to it. The writer included both his personal experience and meditations in it. Moreover, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry laboured hard over this little novella, aiming for and reaching literary perfection.  Supposedly, the author would cross out whole pages of  The Little Prince  to leave just one sentence, resulting in a poignant and poetic prose this novella is known for. Moreover,  The Little Prince   was not only written but also illustrated b

Hello dear friends and fellow bloggers! I'm back with another reading recommendation. My Name is Red is a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk.  Published in 1998, this lengthy postmodern historical novel focuses on a group of miniaturists working in sixteenth century Istanbul. Most of the major characters are a part of the same group of artists. The novel opens with a murder mystery. What follows is a story that has two main characters  (protagonists if you will) but also subplots.  There is a love story of sorts within this murder mystery, but   My Name is Red is not a typical romance. It's, in many ways, a philosophical and detailed dive into Ottoman Empire. The realism of this novel is at times graphic (featuring graphic descriptions of violence) and at times dreamy (featuring poetical descriptions).   My Name is Red often focuses on philosophical debates about the nature and purpose of art. It uses postmodernist writing techniques and is narrated by various characters, some

In this post, I shall review The Rose Tattoo , a play by Tennessee  Williams . It's one of his lesser known plays, but it is not lesser in any other way. There's also a movie version I haven't watched and therefore cannot comment on. I haven't actually seen this play on stage, but I have imagined it. I've also read it a number of times. Some say you cannot understand a play without seeing it on stage, but I think it depends on the play. Some plays are very readable. All    Tennessee  Williams's  plays are that way for me. When I read them, I both see and feel them.  I actually wrote this review years ago. You could say it's one of those books that have stayed with me and that I remember fondly.  It's been sitting in my blog archives , waiting for the right moment to be presented to my readers. I  think I have found a suitable outfit to publish this book review with.  I'm shopping my closet once again. I'm wearing a vintage red  dress paired w