by Hartmut Böhme “Culture and Fetishism – Another Theory about the modern Era” would be the literal translation. In reality it is not another theory but it sheds light on…
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by Roald Dahl Uncle Oswald is a great story teller. Uncle Oswald is a big liar and Casanova was an amateur compared to him – would say his enemies. Since…
by John Perkins An economic hit man is a man who influences decision makers of foreign countries – preferably poor one with rich natural resources – to accept loans from…
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…
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 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 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 Robbins A bourne-again monkey, a stock market crash, the weather of Seattle, an university in Timbuktu, a Philippine broker, the disappearance of the frogs, a Japanese who invented…
by Jewgeni Jewtuschenko The book is announced as the key novel about the Russian society in the nineties. It is more than that! In reality he describes the entire life…
by Jorge Volpi German Physicists in the first half of the 20th century. This novel is for me all about this exiting story of science. How often can it happen…