Portal:Literature/Did you know/Week 1

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... that Urmuz (pictured) was an early 20th century Romanian writer of absurdist and avant-garde prose?

... that Der Untertan, a novel by Heinrich Mann completed in 1914, is a critique of the German Empire under William II?

... that in rhetoric, anaphora (from the Greek ἀναφορά "carrying back") is the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of several consecutive sentences or verses to emphasize an image or a concept?

... that Manhattan Transfer was a New Jersey railroad station from 1910 until 1937, is the title of a 1925 novel by John Dos Passos, and the name of an American vocal group founded in the 1970s?

... that Canadian economist John Kenneth Galbraith also wrote novels, for instance A Tenured Professor (1990)?

... that "Nemo solus satis sapit" (roughly translated as "On your own, you never know enough") is a quotation from Plautus's play Miles Gloriosus, and that Miles Gloriosus appears again in Stephen Sondheim's 1962 musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum?

... that Sir Roger de Coverley and Will Honeycomb were recurring characters in Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's The Spectator of 1711-12?