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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.
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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…
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Despre granițe și lipsa lor
Iris Wolff, Lumea estompată, Lebăda neagră 2022. Traducere din germană de Andreea Odoviciuc.
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.
