Recent content by Daniel del Real

I didn't know you could win a Pulitzer with a work not written in English.

Here's the letter Hustvedt wrote about her husband's death: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6eG0lyAgR-/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/may/01/paul-auster-dies-aged-77-death-american-author-new-york-trilogy

Coming out in September 23, this will be the book's cover:

Of course, being written during the pandemics and under the uncertainties of the moment, the walls became both, protection and imprisonment. After all, Japan was one of the countries who completely closed their borders and had one of the more strict severe measurements against COVID. He even...

Murakami H. The City and its Uncertain Walls A very successful return to his roots, a novel which reminds a lot of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the world. As he explains in the epilogue, this was originally a short story he wrote in the early 80’s. He wasn’t satisfied the way it was...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/books/john-barth-dead.html What a terrible day for literature :cry:

It's so sad we have to place the adjective "Alternative" before Nobel Prize in 2018. After all, she's a better writer than all the ones the real Academy has chosen from that date.

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 things were very different. There is a distance the reader has to surpass, not only cultural but also chronological. Now, this lady is kind of annoying...

Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book

I just found out the audiobook is narrated by Humberto Vélez, who is the voice of Homer Simpson in Spanish :ROFLMAO:

I would say BULLSHIT!

You're right, all Starnone's novels I found were 200pp or less.

Funny I cannot find a Spanish translation for this novel, especially since it's from 2000 and we usually get translations from Italian in a fair amount. There are a few of his books translated, most of them published in recent years: Confidenzi, Lacci, Scherzetto. Good to see you around Dante.

The rest is pretty much the same, quite mediocre, just like the novel.