Karel Krîl

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Ivan Andreevici Krîlov

Ivan Andreevici Krîlov (n. 13 februarie 1769, Moscova — d. 21 noiembrie 1844, Sankt Petersburg) este cel mai cunoscut fabulist rus. Fabulele sale ridiculizează racile morale ale epocii, în versuri libere, într-o limbă populară, presărată cu proverbe și zicatori. Cartea înțelepciunii poporului” - acesta e numele pe care N.V.Gogol l-a dat operei lui Krîlov - creatorul fabulei naționale ruse. Consacrând genul alegoric al fabulei cu specific național, Krîlov a adus un suflu nou, democratic, în literatura rusă, care, la sfârșitul secolului al XVIII-lea și la începutul celui de al XIX-lea, pășea într-o nouă fază a dezvoltării sale. Pe tărîm literar se dădea o luptă aprigă între tendințele realiste din ce în ce mai puternice și dogmele rigide ale clasicismului. Pe de altă parte, adepții curentului sentimentalist și ai romantismului pasiv, conservator, capitulau în fața noii orientări, aceea a realismului consecvent și integral. I. A. Krîlov a ridicat pe o treaptă nouă aceste tendințe...

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Andrew Hudgins

Andrew Hudgins was born in Killeen, Texas, in 1951 and educated at Huntingdon College and the University of Alabama. He earned his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1983. His volumes of poetry include Ecstatic in the Poison (Overlook Press, 2003); Babylon in a Jar (1998); The Glass Hammer: A Southern Childhood (1994); The Never-Ending: New Poems (1991),a finalist for the National Book Awards; After the Lost War: A Narrative (1988), which received the Poetry Prize; and Saints and Strangers (1985), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of a book of essays, The Glass Anvil (1997). About Hudgins\'s most recent collection, Mark Strand has said, \"Ecstatic in the Poison is full of intelligence, vitality, and grace. And there is a beautiful oddness about it. Dark moments seem charged with an eerie luminosity and the most humdrum events assume a startling lyric intensity. A deep resonant humor is everywhere, and everywhere amazing.\" Hudgins\'s awards and...

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Elizabeth Kim

Elizabeth Kim was born in Korea. Omma was killed by her brother and father ('honour killing') for the sin of sleeping with an American soldier and producing a mixed-race child, Elizabeth. There is no record of her birth or of her name. Dumped in a horrific orphanage in post-war Seoul, Kim was lucky to be adopted by a fundamentalist American family. But just as her American features doomed her in racist Korea, her Korean features served as a constant reminder that she wasn't good enough for her new all-white environment. Her mother had always told her that life was made up of ten thousand joys as well as ten thousand sorrows.

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