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…
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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…
by William Faulkner Another American classic I read in the last month. This one was hard to get through. In the beginning I got constantly lost regarding who was actually…
by Philip Roth The acclaimed novel abut getting old and about sickness. Inevitable but mostly denied. The is nothing nice when you reach the age which one thought would never…
by Rubem Fonseca Alternative literature! It is not like Bukowski, it is real literature, it is Rubem Fonseca from Rio de Janeiro. I discovered him via a podcast where they…
by Hellmuth Karasek Actually, Karasek is not the man I would be interested in. a typical intellectual softie I would have said. He is a softie, but how interesting is…
by Tom Wolfe That soft soft man with a white suit, white socks and white shoes: a dandy: Tom Wolfe. I knew this picture of him and therefore I concluded…
by Jô Soares I guess I forgot one book to my reading list last year. It was a book by Jô Soares “O Xangô de Baker Street” which I read…