What other story has had over 100 films made from it?
Rescuing Fiction | the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Fictional Characters | Herman Hesse vs the Steppenwolf
Among novelists, the phenomenon of the character who resists the author's intentions is well known. This is one of the best examples in fiction.
Rescuing Fiction | Heidegger’s Glasses by Thaisa Frank | how it contains one of the greatest scenes ever written
The scene where Heidegger comes for a meeting with the commandant at Auschwitz ranks.....as one of the greatest conversation scenes in literature.
Rescuing Fiction | Gabriel García Márquez – deceased in 2014 and now a new novel?
I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard, or read, someone say something like what the author of the March 6/2024 BBC article says of García Márquez, that he was "was best known for pioneering the magical realist style of writing." That all started with his first and, in the English-speaking world, … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | Gabriel García Márquez – deceased in 2014 and now a new novel?
Rescuing the Future | South Korea’s declining population
This morning I read a BBC article about South Korea's declining population. Korean women are said to be producing children at a rate of 0.72 per woman, the lowest rate in the world. Since it takes 2.1 births per woman to maintain a population (if you ignore immigration, which many wealthy countries receive), South Korea's … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | South Korea’s declining population
Rescuing the Future | Rising Housing Costs | But is the Condo explosion coming to an end?
....... we look like we're headed for some kind of spectacular multi-vehicle financial pile-up. Fasten your seat-belts.
Rescuing Reality | MacLeans Magazine on the Renters Revolt
.....for Canada’s property owners, the housing crisis is no crisis at all. The worse it gets, the more money they make.
Rescuing Fiction | The real Don Quixote and why, and how, you might want to read him
I wish I had a dollar for every time the novel Don Quixote is mentioned and someone then has to make a remark about old fools charging at windmills. In a 2002 survey of 100 authors around the world, who were asked to name the book they considered to be the “most meaningful of all … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | The real Don Quixote and why, and how, you might want to read him
Rescuing Fiction | The Last Interview and Other Conversations | Gabriel García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Though it made him famous and brought him financial independence, Márquez said more than once that he'd grown to hate the book.
Alan Conrad 