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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)
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Creative by AI
In Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’ we see what happens when the artificial human is more human than the human.
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Și roboții sunt tot oameni
Fabulă, satiră, basm, povestirile lui Stanislaw Lem din “Ciberiada” sunt imposibil de clasificat. Roboții lui sunt numai cu numele roboți și în aventurile lor ne…
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Anna Karenina – opoziție și contrapunct
“Anna Karenina” de Lev Tolstoi. Nici nu îndrăznesc să sper că se mai poate zice sau scrie ceva nou despre ea, despre el. Dar ea,…
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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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To the Lighthouse – Mrs Ramsay in Her House
In Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ Mrs Ramsay and the house on the Isle of Skye are one character.

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.