Concept of analepsis Analepsis, or flashback, is a narrative technique, commonly used in literature and cinema, but that can also be used in theatre, and that consists on the description of events prior to the present moment of the story. This way, the chronological order of the facts is interrupted, and there is a return […]

Jane Austen was an English writer and is considered one of the most important female authors in the history of literature. Born in Hampshire on the 16th December 1775, Jane came from a family that could be considered bourgeois, and she was the youngest daughter, having seven older siblings. Her father, the reverend George Austen, […]

Paul Benjamin Auster is a renowned and laureate North-American author. Born on the 3rd February 1947 in Newark, in the state of New Jersey, Auster comes from a middle class Jewish family. It was in his early teens that the future writer began to show his interest towards literature, being an avid consumer of several […]

“Notes from Underground” is one of the books written by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In some translations, the title of the book can appear as “Letters from the Underworld”, since there isn’t one title defined as official. Published for the first time in 1864, the is the 7th book of the writer, and the […]