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Clarifying: The hearts are for Lispector and Amado, not for Coelho. -
from today's New York Times, a profile of Jenny Erpenbeck A Novelist Who Finds Inspiration in Germany’s Tortured History By Steven...
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Just learned about a new artist (thanks to Wim Wenders' recent documentary): Anselm Kiefer. I am quite taken with his works, I must say...
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Man I remember being so disappointed with The Sound of Waves. It was a very expensive copy, and I decided to empty my bank account for...
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🇻🇳 Duong Thu Huong, Memories of a Pure Spring ⭐⭐+ I read Novel Without a Name (1995) and Paradise of the Blind (1988) and was quite...
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Oh no! 😭 I absolutely adored her!! It was my honor and my privilege to take two classes with her as a grad student right before she...
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A review of Jacob´s Ladder: https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/autumn/jacobs-ladder-ludmila-ulitskaya
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^For more donkey-themed works of art (I feel like this ought to be a genre unto itself!), check out Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey...
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Platero and I by Juan Ramon Jimenez A humble and gentle masterpiece. A series of poetic vignettes that describe the author's...
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I haven't updated here for a while.. ?? Peter Handke - The Great Fall : I said elsewhere, very cerebral. An actor, in a new country to...
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Bartleby replied to the thread Yan Lianke.An interesting text written by the author, and adapted from an upcoming book of essays, dealing with the issue of writing in (and about)...
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So weird reading the English subtitles and how they don't fit with Gregory Rabassa's legendary translation. I get that there are... -
Bartleby replied to the thread Anne Carson.New interview with Anne Carson...
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Bartleby replied to the thread Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years Of Solitude.The teaser for the Netflix adaptation of the beloved García Márquez novel has been released. I was worried they were going to mess the...
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Bartleby reacted to dc007777's post in the thread Ten Memorable Beginnings of Novels at the Beginning of the Year (Google translation from Portuguese) with Like.
"The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in...