Very clever and amusing - which is necessary (at least desirable) but not sufficient. Too good not to read and want to read more. Highly recommended. But I have not yet found anything especially meaningful for me. Maybe that is about me or my current mood. I have picked this up and put it down qui...
Very clever and amusing - which is necessary (at least desirable) but not sufficient. Too good not to read and want to read more. Highly recommended. But I have not yet found anything especially meaningful for me. Maybe that is about me or my current mood. I have picked this up and put it down qui...
The title of this novel is a spoiler and the rest of the plot is adequately summarised on the back cover, so expect few surprises and you will not be disappointed. The task of this novel, then, is to provide a believable account that matches the plot outline. In the event, this is accomplished with ...
The world informs me,like a distracted conductortoo busy to answer my questionif this is the right stop,that this isn't the book of his I should read.'This is what they had,' I say.Before I can explain how I liked itbut didn't love it,They turn their back, and I'm left to ponder the rail map.I'd hav...
Pirandello's most famous book brilliantly exposes weaknesses and strenghts of the Modern Man through a brilliant, entertaining story whose surreal nature weirdly makes it more realistic.Featured in my Top 5 20th Century Italian Novels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn6D59vg5aE
3.5 starsThe style of the story makes me think of a domesticated form of a picaresque novel. What would you choose to do and who would you choose to be if you could walk away from your current life because everyone thought you were dead? Which life would be the "real" you? Would you choose to live l...
R.I.P. Mattia Pascal.Mattia Pascal was a man born to endure adversities in every walk of life. He was a dutiful son who saw his family affluence ruined by a benefactor after his father’s death and his mother’s existence fading into rueful shadows. He was a concerned husband and a doting father even ...
All in all this was a good collection, but I must admit to disappointment because I didn’t find it as rich or interesting as Tadic's previous collection in English, Night Mail: Selected Poems, also translated by Simic.In the introduction, Simic says that Tadic’s poems have become “less verbally intr...
I have a little broom closet in my heart for Eastern European poetry that’s lit by a bare bulb, and the Serbians occupy the top shelf. This anthology is highly recommended: the poems are often dark, and more image- than language-driven, full of icons and other religious references, animal totems, ca...
Important: Our sites use cookies.
We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes.
Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests.
Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications.
You can choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings.
If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, BookLikes will not function properly and certain services will not be provided.
For more information, please go to our Privacy Policy.
Log in with Facebook 
