The work of the Austrian writer, Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti (1905—1994) is studied in aspect literary cinematography, indicating synthesis literature and cinema, particular, choice means for implementing audiovisuality a text. phenomenon under study considered on material book “Voices Marrakesh. Notes after Journey” (“Die Stimmen von Marrakesch. Aufzeichnungen nach einer Reise”), composit...

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried is an example of what I call a narrative of failure. A narrative of failure is a term for a narrative that both fails as narrative�that is, that fails in the enactment of its own telling�and a narrative that thematizes failure�that is, that takes failure or failing as one of its subjects. Narratives of failure fail to fulfill conventional expectations for n...