In this blog post, I will briefly summarize Asia Zebar’s life and major works, and analyze the key issues regarding language, identity, and women raised in her 2003 novel ‘The Disappearance of French’. The Life and Works of Asia Zébar Asia Zébar, whose birth name was Fatima-Zohra Imalyène, was born on June 30, 1936, in the coastal city of Cherchell, Algeria. The town is also...
Why were Schnitzler’s works described as “hospital medical records rather than literature”?
In this blog post, we will examine how Schnitzler’s medical background and the zeitgeist of 19th-century Vienna influenced his “psychoanalytic” narrative style, focusing in particular on the universal view of humanity revealed in ‘Death’ and ‘Reigen’. Anatomy of the Human Psyche: The Criticism That His Works Were “Hospital Medical Records, Not Literature” One of the...