Literary Figures Magnets

The Importance of Being Oscar....

Wise words from Virginia Woolf: "I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded."

Musings on creativity by Charles Dickens. A great gift for the writer or literature-lover in your family!

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), mostly known as Dante, is considered one of the finest poets that Italy has ever produced, Dante Alighieri is also celebrated as a major influence in Western culture. He is best known for the monumental epic poem, La divina commedia, orThe Divine Comedy and adored all over the world as a literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker.

Joseph Conrad (1857 –1924), Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad is one of the great modern writers of England. His novels reflect his concerns with the complex individual, and how sympathy and imagination can blur clear. His best known works include The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', Heart of Darkness , Nostromo, The Secret Agent , and Under Western Eyes. The image is a reproduction of my original digital painting.

Franz Kafka (1883 –1924), a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. This digital portrait is created based on Kafka’s commonly available photographs.

Franz Kafka (1883 –1924), a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. This digital portrait is created based on Kafka’s commonly available photographs.

Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal, one of the most original and complex French writers of the first half of the 19th century, and considered one of foremost practitioners of realism. His finest novels are Le Rouge et le noir (1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (1839). The portrait of Stendhal is a digitally painted based on public domain images.

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