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Ayesha Dhurue
Jul 14, 20222 min read
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
A novelized autobiography. An attempt to interiorize the indifference and absurdity of existing. A mirror through which one is conscious...


Ayesha Dhurue
Apr 13, 20222 min read
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let...


Ayesha Dhurue
Apr 13, 20222 min read
Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima
“Well, that's what they do on television. Every fifteen minutes, there are breaks for commercials. That way we get to look forward to...


Ayesha Dhurue
Apr 13, 20222 min read
A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
“I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.” The...


Ayesha Dhurue
Apr 13, 20222 min read
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
“One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased...


Ayesha Dhurue
Jan 17, 20222 min read
Literary Theme: Lonely & Secluded Characters
In the margins of different settings, the remote marsh of Second Place, the grueling hydraulic press in Too Loud A Solitude, the desolate...


Ayesha Dhurue
Jan 17, 20222 min read
Literary Theme: Existential Horror
A few books that portray the theme of horror. Existential horror relates to the meaning of human existence, our notions of reality, our...


Ayesha Dhurue
Oct 4, 20214 min read
The Stranger by Albert Camus
In Albert Camus’s The Stranger, you are put in front of the immediate ambiguity of the world. The kind that you experience in ordinary...


Ayesha Dhurue
Sep 16, 20211 min read
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
Themes of solitary existence, retrospective reflections, and confronting intense suppressed feelings dominate the story so far......


Ayesha Dhurue
Aug 10, 20212 min read
The symbolic significance of John Milton's Paradise Lost
Whether it is Satan awakening in Hell among the Rebel angels or the sentimental rigor with which Satan provokes the temptation and fall...
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