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Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel García Márquez
Translated from the Spanish by Gregory RabassaOn the face of it a simpler tale than some of the Spanish language literature which I have been reading for Stu and Richards’ Spanish Lit Month, thi… more →
A Rat in the Book Pile
Year of a Hundred books – #44 Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh
wrote 16 hours ago: Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh – Mo Yan 3/5 I’ve mentioned before that from … more →
Passing Time and The Glass Bead Game
wrote 6 days ago: Unlike my friend Simon who’s read the entire canon, Steppenwolf is the only work of Hermann He … more →
Big Breasts and Wide Hips - Mo Yan
wrote 1 week ago: What’s it all about?: In a country where men dominate, this epic novel is first and foremost a … more →
The Neruda Case by Roberto Ampuero; translated by Carolina De Robertis
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wrote 1 week ago: On April 8, 2013, the Chilean authorities exhumed the body of the revered poet Pablo Neruda at his f … more →
Book #14. Miguel Street
wrote 3 weeks ago: I am pleased to go back and review this book. I read it once in an advanced English course during my … more →
Gallic Literature II: French Nobel Prize Winners 1950-2010
wrote 1 month ago: The second half of the 20th century was a tumultuous time in French culture and society; it saw the … more →
Death at Intervals [José Saramago]
wrote 1 month ago: A draught of living death. (bonus points if you can name the book this is from!) What would become o … more →
Gallic Literature I: French Nobel Prize Winners 1900-1950
wrote 1 month ago: France has produced legions of brilliant writers, philosophers and poets over the course of the 20th … more →
Say Nothing, Mo Yan: China's First Nobel Laureate of Literature
wrote 1 month ago: Mo Yan is one of the preeminent Chinese writers who has engaged with the darker periods of recent Ch … more →
Mother Departs
wrote 1 month ago: Mother Departs by Tadeusz Różewicz, tr. Barbara Bogoczek (Stork Press, 2013) Mother Departs by Tadeu … more →
To See Him Again by Gabriela Mistral
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wrote 1 month ago: Never, never again? Not on nights filled with quivering stars, or during dawn’s maiden brightn … more →
SPANGLISH - H = hoy
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wrote 1 month ago: hoy (verb) meaning: today It blindsides me, even in this place where the birds sing so gallan … more →
One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII by Pablo Neruda
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wrote 1 month ago: I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I … more →
Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market by Pablo Neruda
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wrote 1 month ago: Here, among the market vegetables, this torpedo from the ocean depths, a missile that swam, now lyin … more →
Traveling to Istanbul (III)--In the heart of the country?
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wrote 1 month ago: Thursday started out in a bit of frustration, but turned out okay after all. The plan was to head ou … more →
The Butterflies Within
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wrote 1 month ago: PREFACE Hello again dear travelers of the heart, and of the mind, body and soul. The time has come a … more →
Youth by J. M. Coetzee
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wrote 2 months ago: J. M. Coetzee’s Youth is a semi-fictionalized autobiographical novel, published in 2002. In the nove … more →
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
wrote 2 months ago: In the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day and all things Irish, I wanted to share some sage words fro … more →
Voices from the Grave #61: John Steinbeck's Nobel Prize Speech
wrote 2 months ago: John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize speech. … more →
