literature Archives - Eirini Lachana Eirini Lachana, photography Sun, 21 Jul 2019 07:00:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://eirinilachana.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-2-32x32.jpg literature Archives - Eirini Lachana 32 32 Once upon a time with Charles Perrault https://eirinilachana.com/once-upon-a-time-with-charles-perrault/ Sun, 21 Jul 2019 06:18:49 +0000 https://eirinilachana.com/?p=1232 Charles Perrault (12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française and he laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale. Portrait (detail)of Charles Perrault by Philippe Lallemand, 1672 In 1695, when he was 67, Perrault lost his position as secretary and decided to […]

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]]> The other side of Vladimir Nabokov https://eirinilachana.com/the-other-side-of-vladimir-nabokov/ Sun, 24 Mar 2019 11:43:42 +0000 https://eirinilachana.com/?p=957  Nabokov‘s butterflies In 1967, Nabokov commented: “The pleasures and rewards of literary inspiration are nothing beside the rapture of discovering a new organ under the microscope or an undescribed species on a mountainside in Iran or Peru. It is not improbable that had there been no revolution in Russia, I would have devoted myself entirely to […]

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]]> Jack Kerouac https://eirinilachana.com/jack-kerouac/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 12:37:34 +0000 https://eirinilachana.com/?p=855 No one reads Kerouac better than Kerouac.. “ The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow […]

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