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Nov 10, 2020 · The American writer Mary Gaitskill, author of the short story on which the 2002 film Secretary was based, adopted a tiny one-eyed cat in Italy, which she called Gattino. The loss of Gattino affected Gaitskill’s view of love – feline and human –profoundly. Human love she thought was "grossly flawed", often serving as a means of ...
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Nov 22, 2021 · November 22, 2021. 3 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. There’s nothing like curling up with a good book and a soft cat. And, as literary critic Maria Nikolajeva writes, it’s easy to find a good book featuring a cat. Since ancient times, cats have played all sorts of roles in literature around the world.
Oct 14, 2013 · Indeed, despite the bountiful and often ardent cat-lovers among literary history’s famous pet-owners, Lane challenges the very notion that cats and literature go together: Perhaps we need to rethink the assumption, deep-rooted but far from well grounded, that writers and cats are a good mix.
Apr 29, 2013 · Cats have inspired Joyce’s children’s books, T. S. Eliot’s poetry, Gay Talese’s portrait of New York, and various literary satire, while dogs have fueled centuries of literature, philosophy and psychology, interactive maps, and some of the New Yorker’s finest literature and art. Gathered here are some of literary history’s most moving accounts of famous writers’ love for their ...
Aug 25, 2018 · Here is a list of famous authors who loved their cats: Aldous Huxley. Huxley was an English writer, best known for his dystopian novel, Brave New World. ‘If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is to keep a pair of cats.’. Alexandre Dumas.
Mar 7, 2021 · There’s an amusing line attributed to the great comic fantasy author Terry Pratchett (although it hasn’t been traced in any of his novels): ‘In ancient times, cats were worshipped as gods. They have not forgotten this.’. Certainly, it appears to have been the Egyptians who first domesticated the cat, in around 2000 BC.
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Feb 13, 2018 · Cats and good literature go together like peanut butter and bananas. If you don’t believe me, check out all of the adorable kitties cuddling books all over Bookstagram. Then take a look at these 100 books with cats across several genres featuring felines.
