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The Quartet of Unity and Dispersion in ‘Between the Acts’
Virginia Woolf’s ‘Between the Acts’ could be read and imagined as a play. But what does this say about its characters, who are plain to…
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Truth, Fiction and 3 Women in ‘A Room of One’s Own’
In ‘A Room of One’s Own’ Virginia Woolf goes beyond the dichotomy fiction/nonfiction and gives shape to a form which defies definition and borders.
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The Other Women in the Tapestry of ‘Mrs. Dalloway’
“Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small”…
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Necruțătoarele miracole ale lui Solaris
Stanislaw Lem, Solaris, Nemira 2018. Traducere din poloneză de Adrian Rogoz.
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House in the Light of Time
The story of a house that, unlike the Ramsays’ vacation house in ‘To the Lighthouse’, wasn’t lucky enough to have people return to it.
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Refugiul timpului, joc satiric
”Refugiul timpului” de Gheorghi Gospodinov de-scrie istoria europeană a secolului 20.
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Old Kind World, Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro’s titles are never straightforward, but this one has really been giving me headaches. It’s been more than 8 years since I read ‘Never…
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The Forms of Memory
Stevens, the unsympathetic butler in Kazuo lshiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ lives a life full of passion and belief. He’s just telling the story…
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Defamiliarization by AI
In ‘Klara and the Sun’, an AI is telling us about her world, what she sees and how she sees it. We can “translate” Klara’s…
diana
I’m Diana, a lifelong book and literature enthusiast.
I’m a big fan of 20th century literature and women writers, but I don’t shy away from classics, contemporary fiction, nor from an intelligent thriller.