Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was a Chilean poet and educator. Her poetry earned her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945.Gabriela Mistral was born Lucila Godoy Alcaya on April 6, 1889, at Vicu&ntild...
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Gabriela Mistral, literary pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was the first Spanish American author to receive the Nobel Prize in literature; as such, she will always be seen as a representative figu...
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The German author Jakob Wassermann (1873-1934) combined a romanticized psychoanalysis with an almost journalistic sensationalism. He used a narrative technique that verged at times on the surrealistic...
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During his lifetime Jakob Wassermann was much praised and much derided. His friend Thomas Mann, in one of his ironic compliments, called Wassermann a "Weltstar des Romans" (a world-best-selling noveli...
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In the following essay, Blankenagel catalogs such various fears as fear of death, fear of the loss of affection, fear of change, fear of the future, and fear of others in the works of Jakob Wassermann...
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Gabriela Mistral
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
John C. Blankenagel
