Evgenia, Evgeni and Boris Pasternak Zhenia Luvers, the protagonist of The Childhood of Luvers , by Boris Pasternak (1918) grows up in a ...

For a few months in 1926, Andre Breton was mesmerized by a young woman whose perceptions were intense, but irrational. He met her on the str...

Sometimes “something came to the surface, inappropriately, unexpectedly, from the depths of people, and made ordinary actions, ordinary wo...

Komako is the main character in the book Snow Country , by Yasunari Kawabata, first published in 1947 and translated by Eward Seidensticker....

Abelone Brahe, a character in The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge , by Rainer Maria Rilke, first published in 1910, is the youngest sister...

“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. … Up in this high air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightne...

In My Antonia , published in 1918, Willa Cather tells the story of Antonia, based on Annie Pavelka, a friend she grew up with in Nebraska. A...