The Modern World: Ten Great Writers S01E03 · Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'
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- 1 1. James Joyce: Ulysses1988-01-10From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes fantastic adaptations to film from
- 2 2. Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent1988-01-17When an anarchist attempted to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, an idea exploded in the mind of Joseph Conrad. This program re-creates the world of The Secret Agent, the first gr
- 3 3. Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'1988-01-24
- 4 4. Marcel Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu1988-01-31Withdrawing from the glittering high society he had so avidly courted, Marcel Proust spent the last decade of his life in virtual isolation, writing and revising Remembrance of Thi
- 5 5. Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain1988-02-07A novel of ideas at once serious and comic, The Magic Mountain offers a bird’s-eye view of the political, philosophical, and social landscapes of pre-World War I Europe. This progr
- 6 6. Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright1988-02-14This program, narrated by Ibsen biographer Michael Meyer, charts the development of Henrik Ibsen’s style over four periods: his early years of failure; his epic dramas; his sociolo
- 7 7. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway1988-02-21Virginia Woolf pushed the boundaries of the novel as a tool for psychological inquiry through her experimentation with subjective and relativistic perceptions of time and events. T
- 8 8. Luigi Pirandello: In Search of an Author1988-02-28In 1925 Luigi Pirandello brought his troupe to England as part of a worldwide tour. This program re-creates one day in London as “The Einstein of the Theater” watches his plays and
- 9 9. T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land1988-03-06Read by noted actors Michael Gough, Edward Fox, and Eileen Atkins, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land powerfully expresses the disillusionment and disgust of the post–World War I era in
- 10 10. Franz Kafka: The Trial1988-03-13A suppressor of his own writings, Franz Kafka even requested that upon his death all his extant works be destroyed—yet those very works accurately prefigured the anxieties and alie
- 11 11. Ten Great Writers: The Seminar1988-03-20In this lively round-table discussion, moderator Melvyn Bragg; the late writer and critic Anthony Burgess; Professor George Steiner, author of Language and Silence; literary critic