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Happy Returns to and in ‘Great Expectations’
Returning to ‘Great Expectations’, I read Pip’s journey of self-discovery as a dark novel of making sense of a past which slips further away.
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Der Steppenwolf, Meisterwerk oder Ideologie?
Hermann Hesses Roman “Der Steppenwolf” ist eine Reise durch die tiefen Abgründe der menschlichen Seele. Oder der männlichen?
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The Grit and Heart of ‘Shuggie Bain’
‘Shuggie Bain’, Douglas Stuart’s 2020 Booker Prize winner is a dark and heavy story which will leave you emotionally drained. But the story has a…
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Animal Farm (or, How Stories Make the World)
George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” shows that you need only one thing to start a dictatorship: aggressive storytelling.
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‘The Waves’ – A Flower with Six Petals
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves is a tapestry of feelings and perceptions, knit together by 6 friends, a 7th absent one and a narrator who seems…
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Schatten der Vergangenheit in “Die Glut”
Sándor Márai, “Die Glut”, aus dem Ungarischen von Christina Viragh, Piper 2004
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Children and Parents in ‘To the Lighthouse’
This fourth time reading Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ revealed to me the depths in the relations between children and parents.
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Toți oamenii sunt muritori – absolut toți
“Toți oamenii sunt muritori” a lui Simone de Beauvoir confruntă cititoarea cu o întrebare incomodă. E suficient să trăiești în prezent?
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Siddhartha – Was man von Flüssen lernt
Hermann Hesses “Siddhartha” ist eine Dichtung, die auf jede Leserin eine persönliche Wirkung hat.
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Mircea Cărtărescu’s “Nostalgia”
“I will write not to construct a story, but to exorcise an obsession” (Mircea Cărtărescu, ‘The Twins’, one of the stories in ‘Nostalgia’)
fiction
Book reviews and recommendations, written from a personal point of view and grounded in what’s happening in my life at the moment. This is an overview of all the blog posts I wrote about fiction.
