About the Author

I'm someone who reads a lot but I was planning to do some reading this summer anyway so the authors I have picked are ones that I wanted to read some of anyway. I ideally want to try and read some of their work before researching them at all- but this might be a bit hard as I don't normally do much reading.

After having a look at the authors the 4 I'm going to look into in more detail are:


Franz Kafka

-He asked for all his unpublished work to be destroyed after he died (but it wasn't) - could do something ONLY focusing on work published during his life - or ONLY work published after he died - OR all the work that he destroyed (missing)

-Much of his work is quite surreal

-Believed that his style of writing references anxieties

-Died young (in his 40s)

William Burrows

-His big thing is cut-ups (easily transferred to visuals) could be used as a starting point (set a scene)

-He was in with the beat poets (bohemian, lots of drugs and drinking)

Going to give Naked Lunch a go

Samuel Beckett

-Existentialist play writer

-His writing is often has dark humour

Going to give Talking to Godot a go as a start

George Orwell

-Political (left wing)

-Big for 1984 and Animal Farm - both commentary on the impact of the state, dictators etc..

-1984 is the furthest I've got into a book before - when I was younger. I'm interested in reading books written from his experiences (non-fiction) - Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia and Down and Out in Paris and London.