Musil was born in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, the son of engineer Alfred Edler von Musil (1846, Timișoara – 1924) and his wife Hermine Bergauer (1853, Linz – 1924). The orientalist Alois Musil ("The Czech Lawrence") was his second cousin.. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Chomutov in Bohemia, and in 1891 Musil's father was appointed to the chair of Mechanical …

1953 Fénéon Prize; 1998 Mallarmé prize; Work. In his work, Dib was concerned with bringing the authentic experience of Algerian life to a wider, particularly French-speaking, world. The Algerian revolution (1954–1962) profoundly shaped his thinking, and made him eager to bring to the world's attention Algeria's struggle for independence.

Four Quartets is a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, Burnt Norton, was published with a collection of his early works (1936's Collected Poems 1909–1935).After a few years, Eliot composed the other three poems, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding, which were written during World War II and the air …

William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life.A Nobel Prize laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and is widely considered …

Oscar Wilde fu educato tra le mura domestiche fino all'età di nove anni; in seguito, dal 1864 al 1871, studiò alla Portora Royal School a Enniskillen (contea di Fermanagh), seguendo le orme di suo fratello maggiore. Dal 1871 al 1874 frequentò il Trinity College di Dublino dove, per i suoi lodevoli studi sui lirici greci (si vantò a lungo dell'esame sui "Frammenti dei poeti comici greci …

Gino Severini (7 April 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Italian painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism and the "return to order" in the decade after the First World War.During his career he worked in a variety of media, including mosaic and fresco.