![]() ![]() With each and every reading, witha different critical approach or with the passage of time, the meanings of literary texts keep on changing. There is no fixed or determinate meaning that will pass the test of time. ![]() She is not a voluminous writer, but judged by even a very strict critical canon, she is a luminous writer all the same that is why her stories and novels have come to be regarded the inspiring models of artistic expression.Ī text is a product of tradition of interpretations. No half strokes can satisfy her, no unnecessary information or detail no word, no phrase is that does not exactly but briefly convey what she wants to convey. As a result she does not like to produce volume after volume or short story after short story. ![]() She is a creative artist with a fastidious taste. Her short stories and especially her personal note stem partly from formal considerations such as resistance to experimental tricks and partly from an avoidance of social thesis fiction and from a compulsion to explore the scope and sanction of human love. Lahiri's fiction cannot be classed with the other contemporary writers. Jhumpa Lahiri, the distinguished diasporic writer, a master stylist, and the author of flawless, standard shorter fiction has contributed gem like fiction and short stories to the diasporic literature for over many years. ![]()
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![]() In the months that followed the first preview, the official opening was repeatedly postponed while Berger and his colleagues dealt with bruising, embargo-defying reviews, sackings, injuries, and countless technical snags.īy May 2011, Turn Off the Dark had become so synonymous with theatrical disaster that a headline in The Onion, the satirical newspaper, appeared to be only slightly exaggerating: “Nuclear Bomb Detonates During Rehearsal for ‘Spider-Man’ Musical”. And the financial crisis of 20 had scared off private investors, so that in August 2009, the production found itself $20 million short of cash. Its initial lead producer and guiding light, Tony Adams, had had a fatal stroke in 2005 while in a meeting with The Edge. Before the first preview, Turn Off the Dark was already being gossiped about as a ‘troubled’ enterprise. We’ll keep improving it and improving it, and it’s going to be duck soup by the time we open in January.” But we knew by the end of the night, well, that’s the worst it’s ever going to be. One of the crew members fetched a stick to prod him with, but that didn’t help. It was the worst possible position because no one could reach him. And for some reason he stopped, so you had Spider-Man dangling seven feet above the first two rows. “Then there was a flourish,” says Berger, “when Spider-Man flies off through the audience towards the balcony. But everything was going relatively smoothly until the last seconds before the interval. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I first learned about this series about six months ago when one of my coworkers was reading it. So I picked up my Kindle, and started reading Pines, the first book in a sci-fi/fantasy/horror/mystery trilogy by Blake Crouch. Truly, I think I’ve read more descriptions of rainfall in 2015 than in any year prior. All coupled with detailed descriptions of the glorious weather the Irish are known for. ![]() I’ll go back to it soon, but I needed something a bit less heavy than the story of a forty-year-old woman coping with the death of her husband and having to raise their four children on her own. I got four percent of the way through it (another Kindle book), and decided I just couldn’t do it. I started Colm Tóibín’s lovely Nora Webster on Sunday, shortly after finishing The Temporary Gentleman and writing the bulk of my blog post about it. So apparently this is what happens when I try to read two contemporary Irish fiction novels written by authors who have been Booker Prize contenders in a row: I get so depressed that the only thing left to do is read the book that is currently number one on the Amazon best seller lists for sci-fi, fantasy, and supernatural books. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the natives, Shar-Lon, discovered the Repository some years before and used its "Gifts" (advanced technology) to end planetary wars that were leading to a possible nuclear holocaust. Once there, they are mistaken for "the Builders", those who the planet's native populace, a culture similar to late-20th-century Earth, believe are the creators of the derelict, which they call the "Repository of the Gifts". While investigating an alien derelict, Geordi La Forge and Data are sent to a solar system several light-years away by a transporter with interstellar range, to a similar derelict orbiting an Earth-like planet. ![]() The novel takes place in the 24th century of the Star Trek science fiction universe, based on the then new television's shows' characters. It is set at an undetermined point during the series' first season. The Peacekeepers is a 1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation novel by Gene DeWeese. ![]() |