Rowling's The Harry Potter Series

J. K. Rowling's The Harry Potter Series was both popular and controversial. The series was popular among children, in particular and adults,in general. But, some orthodox people denounced the series as anti-religious because of its magical setting. They accused it of promoting black-magic.

I read the series as a child when it first got published and as an adult, when 

Barnes' The Sense of an Ending - A Postmodern Criticism

The novel The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes, has the characteristics of a postmodern text. The characteristics of a postmodern text are intertextuality, juxtaposition, fragmentation, discontinuity, inability to face the real world and ambiguity.

Intertextuality: The Sense of an Ending has intertextuality. Intertextuality means 

Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K

The novel Life and Times of Michael K, by J. M. Coetzee, has left several impressions on my mind. The title of the novel is ironical. This novel can be analyzed from different critical the points of view like anti-war criticism, postcolonial criticism, eco-criticism and psychoanalytic criticism.

The title of the novel is ironical. Because, the title Life and Times of Michael K seems very formal and the readers expect