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Annotated Bibliography: French slop, Italian despair, and So Ends the Play.

schurmane wrote 4 hours ago: If Americans have so little sense of nuances, it isn’t that they’re incapable of graspin … more →

Tags: adventure, The Incredible, Americans, Books, Death in Venice, euripides, Literature, Reading, Simone de Beauvoir

dezamagire2 comments

Anda wrote 1 day ago: o nuvela de thomas mann. nu cred ca am citit-o. nu-mi amintesc sa o fi citit. dar am anumite dubii. … more →

Tags: dezamagire, nostalgie, resemnare, Timp

Scuzele mele, domnule Mann!3 comments

Vera wrote 1 day ago: Te-am facut plicticos, pedant, didactic, m-am lamentat si m-am tinguit, am jurat sa te pastrez pentr … more →

Tags: Epistole, serenade, declaratii, casa buddenbrook

Buchempfehlung: Mutterland. Die Familie Mann und Brasilien

Marcel Vejmelka wrote 6 days ago: von Karl-Josef Kuschel, Frido Mann und Paulo Astor Soethe ist erschienen im Verlag Artemis & Win … more →

Tags: Brasil, Julia Mann

Proust Meets Mann

Jim Everett wrote 1 week ago: Literary mash-ups are hot now, following the publication of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and I d … more →

Tags: Time Regained, Proust, In Search of Lost Time, magic mountain, Prous Mann Mash-up

Venice Book Club: Death in Venice

fabsjpg wrote 1 week ago: Finally, the quintessential piece of literature based in Venice, Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice.  I k … more →

Tags: Venice Book Club, Death in Venice, Essential Reading

November Novella's16 comments

savidgereads wrote 2 weeks ago: Now I know that I said a few days ago that I wouldn’t be joining in any more challenges but rules ar … more →

Tags: Book Thoughts, Jane Austen, Orhan Pamuk, Arthur Conan Doyle, irene nemirovsky, Muriel Spark, maeve brennan, Alice Thomas Ellis

Vagabondage infini

mekleni wrote 3 weeks ago: Not drawn in by health problems but by my desire to let Venice reveal itself to me, I successfully e … more →

Tags: my corners of the world, Death in Venice, Gustav Mahler, Tadzio

scooting and falling down and no sleep

Nathan wrote 3 weeks ago: Our son has a differently philosophy to baby life than his big sister. At nine months, he has six te … more →

Tags: New York, toddler-life, Sweden, Compact Living, Baby Life, toddler, Parenting, Expat, Baby

15 Inspirational Quotes for Writers1 comment

The Accidental Blogger wrote 1 month ago: Everyone needs inspiration, but as writers, we need more than most.  We need the inspiration and enc … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Allen Ginsberg, Baltasar Gracian, Buddha, Claude M. Bristol, David Eddings, Davie Sarnoff, ernest-gaines, Gene Fowler

phillip lopate on sontag's shallow america

peter wrote 1 month ago:   Sontag on American writers: ”I think I learned a lot about punctuation and speed from Donald … more →

Tags: book cover art, Mary McCarthy, susan sontag, notes on sontag, Phillip Lopate, elizabeth hardwick, donald barthelme

Pederasty in Film10 comments

eromenos wrote 1 month ago: Film is our era’s entertainment channel par excellence, and it is one of the best ways to capt … more →

Tags: Current Affairs, History, The Arts, 1970s, Björn Andrésen, boy films, Boylove, Coming of Age, Death in Venice

Project Guiltpile: Unfinished behemoths

organictriffidfarm wrote 1 month ago: Guilt! Guilt, I say! Since moving to this godforsaken place, I have developed a habit that has come … more →

Tags: writing, Lifehacking, Literature, Books, Goal Setting, The Magic Mountain, Davos, Sanatorium, literary behemoths

Colin Wilson

Ron Pavellas wrote 1 month ago: I just finished reading The Outsider, by Colin Wilson. I will read it, I am sure, no less than two m … more →

Tags: Books and Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, Aldous Huxley, Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast, colin wilson, G. I. Gurdjieff, G.I. Gurdjieff: The War Against Sleep, Hermann Hesse

Thomas Mann - Casa Buddenbrook

Ayda wrote 2 months ago: In prezent citesc Casa Buddenbrook de Thomas Mann si am impresia ca a trecut o vesnicie iar eu nu ma … more →

Tags: Floral Bouquet - esentele altor parfumieri, casa buddenbrook, Recenzie

Inspiration Points: Death on my nightstand4 comments

Jana wrote 2 months ago: It’s certainly just coincidence that as I was reading through Margaret Atwood’s Negotiat … more →

Tags: Books, inspiration points, Book Lists, Margaret Atwood, Muriel Sparks, Simon Schama, writing

JOSEPH & POTIPHAR'S WIFE!

movid wrote 2 months ago: In THE BIBLE chapters 37-50 of the very first book, GENESIS, one could find the narrative of the lif … more →

Tags: 1, Chastity, Delilah, genesis joseph, Herodias, Jael, Joseph, joseph the governor of egypt, Judith

Sundays with Uncle God-Momma: Metaphor mistaken

Lex wrote 3 months ago: Perhaps the fundamental catastrophe of religion is what Joseph Campbell called, “mistaking the metap … more →

Tags: Religion, Myth, Sundays with Uncle God-Momma, Jospeh Campbell, Ego, spirituality, F.M. Cornford

"Shakin' The Blues Away": primitivism, rock 'n roll and mental health

clarespark wrote 3 months ago:    Everyone is excited now about the proposed initiatives to reform mental health care, and though t … more →

Tags: 1, Herman Melville, Diderot, Primitivism, Rock 'n' roll, Hip-Hop Culture, Insanity, h.r. 3200, mental health services


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