ATE AYEN REVIEW SESSION 22/11/2025

Rabindranath Tagore

The first Asian Nobel Prize winner in literature, awarded in 1913 for his profoundly sensitive verse.

Lotus-eaters

Sailors in The Odyssey who forget their desire to return home due to the effects of the lotus plant.

Fountain

Marcel Duchamp's controversial readymade, a urinal submitted to the 1917 Society of Independent Artists' exhibition.

Eduardo Mutuc

Awarded the GAMABA in 2004 for his skill in the Betis craft dukit, recognized for his contributions to traditional arts.

Prometheus Unbound

A poem acrostic that served as a critique of Ferdinand Marcos, published under a pseudonym.

Maynila, sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag

The Lino Brocka film from which the lead characters' names were borrowed for Aliwan Paradise.

Bhima

The strongest of the Pandavas in the Mahabharata, known for killing all hundred Kaurava brothers.

Rahel and Estha

The names of the fraternal twins in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.

Nick Bottom

The weaver in A Midsummer Night's Dream who is transformed into a donkey by Puck.

Thomas A. Anderson

The birth name of Neo, the protagonist of the Matrix franchise.

Hangsaman

A 1951 gothic novel by Shirley Jackson about Natalie Waite's descent into madness.

Herman Sörgel

The Shakespeare scholar and main character in Jorge Luis Borges' short story Shakespeare's Memory.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

A 1971 book by Hunter S. Thompson opening with a line about drugs taking hold.

Stratford-on-Odéon

A literary circle in the 1920s including writers who met and shared ideas at bookstores.

By Night in Chile

A novel by Roberto Bolaño narrated by Father Umulia, known for its first-person perspective and lack of paragraph breaks.