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This year's Pulitzer winner list includes Cristina Rivera Garza's memoir El invencible verano de Liliana, originally published in... -
Cleanthess replied to the thread Russian Literature.All I know is that if walked into Christie's, opened an auction display holding a $650,000, 115 carat diamond for "research" and replied...
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Cleanthess replied to the thread Recently finished books?.That's the problem with reading in translation poets whose main gift is to make their mother tongue sing: their poetry is what's lost in...
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“For some time, I could not decide whether to begin these memoirs at the beginning or at the end, that is, whether I should start with... -
Cleanthess replied to the thread Non-Writer Obituaries.The juice has a small cameo role in the second part of the great French novel, Madame Bovary, also known as The Kugelmass Episode by...
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Cleanthess replied to the thread Authors inspired by cats.Me too. I love that movie. This video from X is similar in spirit
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/books/john-barth-dead.html What a terrible day for literature :cry:
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There is the cultural and chronological distance, sure — but also a shocking contemporaneity. It's a kind of millenium-old blog of a...
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It's a hard text to approach. Even though I have some experience reading Japanese literature it's set in a very ancient time in which...
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One of the most aesthetically perfect texts ever composed! Would love to hear your thoughts on it after you're done :)
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Melancholy II by Jon Fosse ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Although I've found Fosse's trademark repetition off-putting in the past, I didn't mind it in this book...
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I just found out the audiobook is narrated by Humberto Vélez, who is the voice of Homer Simpson in Spanish :ROFLMAO:
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You didn't like Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego? I thought it was excellent.
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I can't find any official news articles yet, but the New Directions Instagram page says László Krasznahorkai is the winner of the 2024...
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But what is badly written book and what I not badly written book, Crito?