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Orlando. He Was a Woman.
‘Orlando is the hero who turns into a heroine, in a biography which turns out to be a fiction’ (Hermione Lee, ‘Virginia Woolf’)
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The I-Speak
Based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘I, Robot’ and ‘The Naked Sun’ I am wondering if the language machines speak can really be called “language”
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A Woman in a House
Virginia Woolf writes in ‘To the Lighthouse’ about man and woman, the power one holds upon the other, the intimacy which binds them together. But…
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The Storytelling AI
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is two. One is Arthur C. Clarke and the other is Stanley Kubrick. In this essay, I am interested in Clarke’s…
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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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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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Romanul, joc satiric
Gheorghi Gospodinov, Refugiul timpului, Pandora M 2023. Traducere din bulgară de Mariana Mangiulea Jatop.
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.