Intro ― What are Deep Readings?
Deep Readings are encounters with fragments of literature – poems, passages from novels, wisdom texts, even letters – that carry a symbolic richness and a resonance reaching beyond the literal. You find a growing list of these in the category Deep Readings. The emphasis is not on literary scholarship, nor on treating literature as an Read the full article…
Deep Reading: Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Fragment “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”[Read more → One Hundred Years of Solitude (various online sources)] Contextual GlimpsePublished in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude became a cornerstone of magical realism and Latin Read the full article…
Deep Reading: Virginia Woolf – Mrs Dalloway
The Fragment “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning — fresh as if issued to children on a beach. What a lark! What a Read the full article…
Deep Reading: Albert Camus – The Stranger
The Fragment “Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. The telegram from the Home says: YOUR MOTHER PASSED AWAY. FUNERAL TOMORROW. DEEP SYMPATHY. That doesn’t mean anything. It may have been yesterday.”[Read more → The Stranger (various online sources)] Contextual GlimpsePublished in 1942, during the Second World War, The Stranger became one Read the full article…
Deep Reading: Franz Kafka – The Metamorphosis
The Fragment One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour‑like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly Read the full article…