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“Rebecca”, romanul unei absențe
Rebecca și doamna de Winter sunt personajele centrale, dar și marele absente în romanul din 1938 a lui Daphne du Maurier.
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Something Tangible, Alive, Threatening
‘The Villa and The Vortex’, Elinor Mordaunt, Handheld Press, 2021
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Das Leben vor uns – Historischer Roman mit Charakter
Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, “Das Leben vor uns”, aus dem Englischen von Claudia Wenner, C.H. Beck 2022
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Life Ceremony – Not for the Faint of Heart
Sayaka Murata, ‘Life Ceremony’, Translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori, Granta, July 2022.
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The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf’s First Novel
It’s hard to read Virginia Woolf’s first novel objectively, knowing her later work. I keep looking for the Woolf I know. But she was not…
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2030.ro proză contemporană audio
În vara lui 2021 eram în plină criză de covid. Credeam că gata, asta a fost, viața socială s-a terminat, ne mutăm cu totul în…
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Anna Karenina – Life, Lively, Lived
“Life dominates Tolstoy. There is always at the centre of all the brilliant and flashing petals this scorpion ‘Why live?’” (Virginia Woolf, ‘The Russian Point…
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Do Electric Sheep Elicit Empathy?
In Philip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ Rick Deckard is convinced he can tell “andys” apart from humans by using an established…
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Es war einmal, und ist doch nie geschehen
Iris Wolff, “So tun, als ob es regnet”, Klett-Cotta 2022 (Erste Ausgabe 2017, Otto Müller Verlag)
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.
