Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz (n. 5 mai 1846 Wola Okrzejska - d. 15 noiembrie, 1916 Vevey) romancier și nuvelist polonez, unul dintre cei mai mari prozatori polonezi, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în 1905. Sienkiewicz s-a născut la 5 mai 1846, în familia unui mic arendaș, care cultiva la copiii săi tradițiile cavalerești și patriotice, învățându-i pe de rost Cântecele istorice ale lui J.U. Niemcewicz înainte de a-i învăța să citească. Un unchi al tatălui slujise regelui Stanis³aw August, iar Kazimierz, fratele scriitorului, cade, la 1871,în războiul franco-prusian. Sienkiewicz nu a fost prea silitor la învățătură. Îl atrăgeau mai mult lecturile și portretele cavalerilor în armuri, care împodobeau o biserică în stil gotic de pe strada Œwiêtojañska, din Varșovia, pe care trecea zilnic spre gimnaziu. În anul 1865 părăsește școala, fără să-și susțină examenul de maturitate. O va face un an mai târziu, când își începe, tot la Varșovia, și studiile superioare, întîi la facultatea de...

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Anatole France

Anatole France, pseudonym for Jacques Anatole Thibault (1844-1924), was the son of a Paris book dealer. He received a thorough classical education at the Collège Stanislas, a boys\' school in Paris, and for a while he studied at the École des Chartes. For about twenty years he held diverse positions, but he always had enough time for his own writings, especially during his period as assistant librarian at the Senate from 1876 to 1890. His literary output is vast, and though he is chiefly known as a novelist and storyteller, there is hardly a literary genre that he did not touch upon at one time or another. France is a writer in the mainstream of French classicism. His style, modelled on Voltaire and Fénélon, as well as his urbane scepticism and enlightened hedonism, continue the tradition of the French eighteenth century. This outlook on life, which appears in all his works, is explicitly expressed in collection of aphorisms, Le Jardin d\'Épicure (1895) [The Garden of...

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Stanislaw Lem

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James JOYCE

James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist, noted for his experimental use of language in such works as Ulysses (1922) and Finneganns Wake (1939). Joyce\'s technical innovations in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue; he used a complex network of symbolic parallels drawn from the mythology, history, and literature, and created a unique language of invented words, puns, and allusions. James Joyce was born in Dublin, on February 2, 1882, as the son of John Stanislaus Joyce, an impoverished gentleman, who had failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of professions, including politics and tax collecting. Joyce\'s mother, Mary Jane Murray, was ten years younger than her husband. She was an accomplished pianist, whose life was dominated by the Roman Catholic Church. In spite of their poverty, the family struggled to maintain a solid middle-class facade. From the age of six Joyce, was educated by Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College, at Clane, and then at...

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Cristian Tudor Popescu

CRISTIAN TUDOR POPESCU (nãscut în 1956, București), absolvent al Facultãții de Automatizãri și Calculatoare, București, promoția 1981, este redactor-șef al ziarului —Adevârul. În 1987 publicã, la Editura Albatros, volumul de nuvele SF Planetarium, pentru care primește premiul Congresului European de SF de la Montpellier. În 1991, apare romanul Vremea Mânzului Sec, la Editura Cartea Româneascã, iar în 1993, antologia SF Imperiul oglinzilor strâmbe, la Editura Societãții —Adevãrull,. În 1995, traduce Edificiul nebuniei absolute, de Stanislaw Lem, publicatã la Editura Univers. Cristian Tudor Popescu este redactor-sef la cotidianul “Adevarul” si unul dintre cei mai prestigiosi gazetari din Romania de dupa 1989. Este absolvent al Facultatii de Automatizari si Calculatoare din Bucuresti. A debutat ca prozator SF. Carti publicate: „Planetarium” (Albatros, 1987, Premiul Congresului European de SF, Montpellier); „Vremea minzului sec” (Cartea Romaneasca,...

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Stanis³aw Jerzy Lec

Stanis³aw Jerzy Lec (6 March 1909 – 7 May 1966) (born Baron Stanis³aw Jerzy de Tusch-Letz) was a Polish poet and aphorist of Polish and Jewish noble origin. Often mentioned among the greatest writers of post-WW2 Poland, he was one of the most influential aphorists on the 20th century. Lyrical poetry, sceptical philosophical-moral aphorisms, often with a political subtext. He was born on March 6, 1909 in Lviv (then Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire), the son of the Baron Benon de Tusch-Letz and Adela Safrin. The family moved to Vienna at the onset of First World War, and Lec' early education was received there. After the war the family returned to Lviv-Lemberg to continue his schooling at the Lemberg Evangelical School. In 1927 he matriculated at the Lviv's Jan Kazimir University in jurisprudence and Polish. As a result of his political activities — writing articles for socialist revolutionary periodicals, making speeches in the Technological Institute’s Yellow Hall — Lec had to leave...

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