![]() ![]() When the story starts Roman has already gave up his beloved brother Vaska to authorities for committing rebellious acts. Roman is a failed portrait artist whose job is to airbrush certain persons from official photos whom the Soviet state has purged. He works for the Department of Party Propaganda and Agitation. The story was written from the point of view of a censor named Roman Osipovich Markin. ![]() The book’s first story ‘Leopard’ is set in 1937 – in the oppressive era of Stalinist purges. He studied at Iowa’ Writers Workshop and now working as a teacher at Stanford. He also visited the Republic of Chechnya, immediately after the end of brutal second Chechen War. Marra has taught himself Russian and studied in Eastern Europe. Marra takes a broader view of Soviet Union and modern Russia, spanning generations, places and scrutinizing emotional truths. Anthony Marra’s debut novel ‘A Constellation of Vital Phenomena’ was set in a broken-down hospital in war-ravaged Chechnya, which won National Book Award and earned huge acclaims in the Book Critics Circle. Petersburg (Leningrad), and Checnya between 19. The intricately linked web of stories are set in Siberia, St. The book consists of nine tightly interwoven vignettes which read more like a novel than short stories. American writer Anthony Marra’s The Tsar of Love and Techno uses fictional characters and set-ups to explore the past and present realities with utmost clarity. It’s the truth which reality or history books often obscure. Albert Camus said, ‘Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth’. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Worldviews cause problems for themselves when they say that there’s no real self, that our ideas are the results of physical processes (or products of culture, or mere power plays), that “reason” is really an illusion. Thus when it discredits reason, it undercuts its own case. Yet the only way a worldview can build its own case is by using reason. ![]() ![]() It says the ideas in our minds are products of natural selection (Darwinism) or economic conditions (Marxism) or electrochemical responses in the brain (contemporary neuroscience). When reductionism is applied to the human mind, it reduces reason to something less than reason. Irtually all idol-based worldviews are self-refuting. ![]() This week, Nancy Pearcey explains how to find where a worldview contradicts itself: So far, we’ve learned how to identify the idol in a worldview (i.e., its understanding of the nature of ultimate reality), to find where it reduces the view of the human person to something less than human, and to see where that reductionism fails to match reality. This week, we’re discussing the chapter “Why Worldviews Commit Suicide” in Nancy Pearcey’s Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes, which covers the fourth of five principles for evaluating worldviews: “Test the Idol: Does It Contradict Itself?” (see links to the previous posts below). ![]() ![]() ![]() Generous white space and colorful frames focus attention on the connections between the human figures. Within their song, a pilot flies into danger seeking peace, and Sorell's simple yet poetic text circles back to the family in the cabin, huddled together, "waiting for her return." Individual color strands woven throughout Alvitre's watercolor and ink illustrations come together to form a striking tapestry encircling the cabin, linking its inhabitants to the pilot. At the mountain's base, beneath a hickory tree, sits a cabin, and inside, next to a cozy stove, a grandmother weaves and prays, surrounded by family members singing. ![]() ![]() K-Gr 3-A military family awaits the return of their loved one in this lyrical tribute to modern warrior women. By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5th ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels which focused on the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. The most serious of Austen's works due to its discussion of religion and religious duty, Mansfield Park also offers a subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, making it one of Austen's most profound works. It is only Fanny whose deep but secret love for Edmund remains true despite his fascination with her brilliant but frivolous cousin Mary. During the absence of Fanny's uncle, the others become entangled in a maze of flirtation and intrigue upon the arrival of Mary Crawford and her brother Henry. But Fanny's steadfast and purposeful character eventually makes her an indispensable part of the household. Growing up in the Bertram household, she is always treated as an inferior, only finding an ally in her cousin Edmund. When the self-effacing 10-year-old Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relations at Mansfield Park she seems shy and withdrawn beside her witty and vivacious cousins. ![]() |