by João Ubaldo Ribeiro Another Brazilian book! Bit I read it in the German translation. I am sure wouldn’t have understood it in the original version. Too many regional expressions…
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by Machado de Assis The stubborn, this would be the literal translation of the title. But the first paragraph in the book clarifies that the dictionary meaning is not the…
by Edward M. Forster Another great discovery of English literature! The plot seems boring for our modern standards. But how Forster develops his characters, the intrigues between them is just…
by Edgar Hilsenrath Only a Jew can write a satire about the holocaust, at least in Germany. Moreover, it is written from the perspective of a Nazi and mass murderer…
by Franz Kafka Kafka’s linguistic style is unmatched, at least fro me. This fragmentary book is really strange for the contemporary reader. America is still in its infancy but at…
by Nadine Gordimer I still trust in the Nobel committee in Sweden. Therefore I always wanted to read nadine Gordimer. This year I saw also a discussion with her on…
by Rubem Fonseca Fonseca’s short stories are the essence of his work. You cannot read something more: laconic, brutal, funny, Brazilian, surprising, horrific, promising and hilarious than these stories. Each…
by Pascal Mercier A philosopher – Pascal Mercier – writes a book, how awful! No, how awesome in this case. I expected some esoteric book for women in their midlife-crisis.…
by William Somerset Maugham The perfect novel. I did not know him before but I have to read more of his work. Summarising, it is a novel about love, dependency…
by F. Scott Fitzgerald The great Gatsby and his great exaggerations. Interestingly, Gatsby is not the main person in the plot – but this character weaves every thread of the…