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Poetry in the age of the scroll: how the poem changes when it is born on a screen

An essay on how vertical reading reshapes the pulse of poetry, asking for precision in every cut and images that endure beyond the feed, so the screen becomes another home where language can breathe with its readers.


What you didn’t know about Edgar Allan Poe

A portrait of Edgar Allan Poe built from hidden details that reveal his passions, struggles, and contradictions beyond the gothic myth.


Hans Christian Andersen and the art of saying the obvious

A direct reading of Andersen’s tale that shows the invisible cloth as fear turned into ritual, the parade as collective consent, and the child’s voice as an ordinary sentence that shifts silence into relief.


How Poe Builds Tension in The Fall of the House of Usher

A journey through the invisible score with which Poe sustains panic in The Fall of the House of Usher: a rational narrator narrowing the frame, an architecture that foretells its end, a tempo that turns waiting into fear, and a choreography of echoes and silences that makes the collapse inevitable.


The Architecture of The Metamorphosis: How Kafka Builds the Monster

The architecture of The Metamorphosis: three acts, thresholds and repetitions narrowing choices to the end, with Grete and the household as engines of change under debt and shame.


Franz Kafka: between minimal life and overflowing literature

Franz Kafka lived a quiet, constrained life yet left behind a body of work that exposed the absurd and fragile condition of modern existence.


The Metamorphosis: Psychological analysis of Gregor Samsa

An exploration of the emotions, fears and inner transformations experienced by Gregor Samsa after his unexpected metamorphosis. A reading that unpacks the anxiety, guilt and isolation running through Kafka’s work.


Tension without dialogue: how to carry drama with gestures and pauses

How to sustain tension and drama through gestures, pauses and actions. Silence shifts meaning into subtext and onstage choreography. Rhythm, objects and space become tools to tell without saying.


Circular narrative: returning to the starting point with elegance

Learn how to craft stories that return to their starting point without relying on cheap tricks. A well-built circular ending offers rhythm, coherence and emotional depth. The key lies in planting early details that bloom upon return.


The Useless Art of Underlining for the Joy of Reading

This article reflects on how the culture of productivity has invaded even our bookshops and proposes a simple yet subversive gesture: reading slowly, underlining without reason and giving the book back its living and unpredictable disorder.