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    International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

    I read this novel. It's the great large-scale encyclopedic fiction about Bucharest, writing, God and messianism.
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    Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 Speculation

    No, "A Different Sea" - the chamber lyrical novel with notes of sadness.
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    Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 Speculation

    My 2024 choices 🇮🇹 Claudio Magris 🇦🇱 Ismail Kadare 🇵🇹 António Lobo Antunes 🇮🇹 Antonio Moresco 🇭🇺 László Krasznahorkai 🇺🇸 Thomas Pynchon 🇺🇸 Don DeLillo 🇪🇸 Enrique Vila-Matas 🇮🇱 David Grossman 🇷🇴 Mircea Cărtărescu
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    The Book Recommendations Thread

    Mircea Cărtărescu, Solenoid Vladimir Sharov, The Rehearsals Vladimir Sharov, Before and During
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    Romans-Fleuves

    Thure Erik Lund, Myrbråtenfortellingene Kristofer Uppdal, Dansen gjenom skuggeheimen Amalie Skram, Hellemyrsfolket Sara Lidman, Jernbanan Steinar Løding, Jernalderdrøm
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    Contemporary (21st century) Russian literature

    I heard about the author but never got around to his works:)
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    Recently Begun Books

    Andrei Ivanov, The Bathyscaphe
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    Top ten Latin American novels in the last decade

    What is the original title of the novel?
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    Don't Listen to the Reviews!

    I'm indifferent to ratings and don't read negative reviews.
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    WLF Reading List 2024

    I couldn't notice difficulties too.
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    WLF Reading List 2024

    Yes. It's great gothic expressionist novel with reference to Robert Wiene's film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
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    Best reads of 2023

    This is a large-scale encyclopedic modernist novel about everything: about life, about sex, about literature, about readers, about post-war intellectuals who were disillusioned with Marxism.
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    Best reads of 2023

    ?? Luis Goytisolo, Antagony ?? António Lobo Antunes, The Land at the End of the World ?? Jon Fosse, Aliss at the Fire ?? Max Frisch, Gantenbein ?? Noam Venevitinov, A Plan D the Day before ?? Danilo Kiš, Hourglass ?? Lars Iyer, Spurious, Dogma, Exodus ?? John Hawkes, The Lime Twig ?? Javier...
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    WLF Reading List 2024

    January 01 🇵🇹 Bernardim Ribeiro, História de menina e moça+ 02 🇺🇸 Djuna Barnes, Nightwood+ 03 🇺🇸 Djuna Barnes, The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings+ 04 🇪🇸 Jorge de Montemayor, Diana+ 05 🇧🇴 Liliana Colanzi, Our Dead World+ 06 🇪🇪 Andrei Ivanov, The Bathyscaphe+ 07 🇳🇴 Jon Fosse...
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    Most Disappointing Reads of 2023

    Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son --Well written but I don’t understand why I need it. Alejandro Saravia, Red, Yellow, Green --I threw the book. Template dissident prose. The author confused hate and criticism. Rodrigo Hasbún, Affections --More could have been extracted from the history of the Ertl's...
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