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In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. [1] Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". [2] Themes are often distinguished from premises.
Portrait of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1872 painted by Vasily Perov. The themes in the writings of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky (frequently transliterated as "Dostoyevsky"), which consist of novels, novellas, short stories, essays, epistolary novels, poetry, [1] spy fiction [2] and suspense, [3] include suicide, poverty, human manipulation, and morality.
A short film based on the story, [18] using pinscreen animation, was made by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker in 1963. Another animated short film, made in 1966, directed by Mordicai Gerstein , and narrated by Brother Theodore , shifts the story to Pittsburgh and changes the names (the barber is named Theodore Schneider and the nose-loser ...
"Mumu" (Russian: Муму) is a short story by Ivan Turgenev, a Russian novelist and story writer, written in 1852. The story of Gerasim, a deaf and mute serf whose life of poverty is brought into sharp relief by his connection with Mumu, a dog he rescued, brought greater national attention to the cruelties of serfdom , and received praise for ...
Billenium (or Billennium) is a short story by British author J. G. Ballard, first published in the November 1961 issue of New Worlds and in the 1962 collection Billennium. [1] [2] It later appeared in The Terminal Beach (1964), Chronopolis and Other Stories (1971), and The Complete Short Stories of J. G. Ballard: Volume 1 (2006).
“The Tale” is the story of a British naval officer during WWI who acts on a visceral impulse to test the assumed perfidy of a suspected war profiteer. [4] Biographer Jocelyn Baines describes the theme of “The Tale” as “exceptionally ambiguous” raising the question: During war-time, that a naval officer is warranted in acting extrajudicially when a neutral merchant is suspected of ...
The book's title story, "First Person Singular", is a new story that was previously unpublished. The other seven stories in the book were first published in the literary magazine Bungakukai between summer 2018 and winter 2020. Several stories in the book were also previously published in English in The New Yorker and Granta. [26]
The collection also prominently features LGBT characters, [9] and many of its themes tie into gender and sexuality. Alexander Carrigan of Lambda Literary noted that "Pinsker presents characters who are all over the LGBT+ spectrum, and in many cases, it allows for further reading and exploration of each story’s themes and characters." [14]