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Rabbits and Boa Constrictors. 8211; Fazil Iskander. Monday, August 15, 2016. 8230;a stubby boa suddenly interrupted the Great Python. This particular boa was known for his unceasing inquisitiveness, which had already led him to swallow bananas instead of rabbits, and he had even had the audacity to convince others that they were rather tasty. Fortunately, none of the other boas followed this example of free thinking. […]. Also filed in Reading. Rabbits and Boa Constrictors. 8211; Albert Camus. 8220;The c...
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The Europeans in North Africa, the “Christians,” as the people from the desert call them–but isn’t their true religion money? What more can the old man from Smara do against this wave of money and bullets? A novel’s “secret center” is how Orhan Pamuk describes the central message of a novel, positing that while the outline of that message may be evident early on, it should not become clear until the end of the book. By this definition of a great novel,. Favorably with that of Albert Cossery’s.
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8211; Albert Cossery. Tag Archives: The Jokers. The Colors of Infamy. 8211; Albert Cossery. Sunday, February 14, 2016. Honor is an abstract notion, invented like everything else by the dominant caste so that the poorest of the poor can boast about having a phantom good that costs no one anything. Karamallah was most certainly the prophet of a great eccentric battle against the official agents of deceit. Everyone with money is a thief, […]. Also tagged Albert Cossery. The Colors of Infamy. Joseph Conrad, ...
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8211; Albert Camus. Tag Archives: Albert Camus. 8211; Albert Camus. Friday, August 12, 2016. They went on doing business, arranged journeys, and formed views. How should they have given a thought to anything like plague, which rules out any future, cancels journeys, silences the exchange of views. They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences. Looking at them, you had […]. Saturday, April 4, 2015. Also tagged Exile and the Kingdom. The Baron in the Trees.
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Fortress of Solitude › May Reading Recap
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Tag Archives: Curzio Malaparte. Tuesday, June 2, 2015. The Skin, Curzio Malaparte Reviewed here, The Skin is a grotesquely surreal retelling of the American liberation of Italy in 1943. It is horrifying and nightmarishly entrancing. I The Supreme, Augusto Roa Bastos Reviewed here, this is a sprawling portrait of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco, a nineteenth century dictator of Paraguay who […]. Also tagged Augusto Roa Bastos. The Prehistory of the Silk Road. Comments Off on May Reading Recap.
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Tag Archives: J.M.G. Le Clézio. Saturday, May 2, 2015. April is always a busy month in the academic calendar and the first few weeks of May ramp up, if anything. And yet this is the best time of year for sitting in the outside and reading. I only finished three books this month, but summer is coming. The Professor and the Siren, Giuseppe Tomasi […]. Also tagged Curzio Malaparte. Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. The Professor and the Siren. Comments Off on April Reading Recap. Wednesday, April 29, 2015.
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Tag Archives: Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Saturday, May 2, 2015. April is always a busy month in the academic calendar and the first few weeks of May ramp up, if anything. And yet this is the best time of year for sitting in the outside and reading. I only finished three books this month, but summer is coming. The Professor and the Siren, Giuseppe Tomasi […]. Also tagged Curzio Malaparte. The Professor and the Siren. Comments Off on April Reading Recap. A Don's Life. The Library of Antiquity.
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Fortress of Solitude › March Reading Recap
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Tag Archives: The Baron in the Trees. Saturday, April 4, 2015. I finished three books last month, another very busy stretch in a particularly busy semester. I only finished the third because of spring break. Exile and the Kingdom, Albert Camus Five short stories by Camus, none of which share characters, form, or narrative structure, but all of which are linked by the anxieties of modern […]. Also tagged Albert Camus. Exile and the Kingdom. The Deaths of Tao. Comments Off on March Reading Recap.
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Tag Archives: The Skin. Tuesday, June 2, 2015. The Skin, Curzio Malaparte Reviewed here, The Skin is a grotesquely surreal retelling of the American liberation of Italy in 1943. It is horrifying and nightmarishly entrancing. I The Supreme, Augusto Roa Bastos Reviewed here, this is a sprawling portrait of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco, a nineteenth century dictator of Paraguay who […]. Also tagged Augusto Roa Bastos. The Prehistory of the Silk Road. Comments Off on May Reading Recap. The Euro...
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Fortress of Solitude › March Reading Recap
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I finished three books last month, another very busy stretch in a particularly busy semester. I only finished the third because of spring break. Exile and the Kingdom. The Baron in the Trees. And a myriad of other adventure tales in order to relate this fanciful story of arboreal existence. This is a delightfully whimsical story that didn’t contain the weight or gravitas of a lot of other books, but I enjoyed it all the more for it. The Baron in the Trees. The Deaths of Tao. The Lives of Tao. Joshua Nude...
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