Foamea
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781602570443 (1602570442)
Publish date: 2007
Publisher: Editura Univers
Pages no: 176
Edition language: Romanian
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Drama,
Philosophy,
19th Century,
Nobel Prize,
Scandinavian Literature
Le pauvre intelligent était un observateur bien plus fin que le riche intelligent. Le pauvre regarde autour de lui à chaque pas qu'il fait, il écoute soupçonneusement chaque mot qu'il entend dire aux gens qu'il rencontre. Chacun des pas qu'il fait impose de la sorte à ses pensées et ses sentiments u...
DNFed at 50%.If only I didn't know what happened at the ending... until then it's a story of an impoverished man, a classic struggling artist, wandering in the streets with hunger. Felt very Tropic of Cancer at first, but unlike Miller, the protagonist blames God for all his misery. It is less obsce...
I picked this book up for a goodreads group read—and, honestly, only because it was on the 1001 books list. And I am so glad I did. Originally published in 1890 in Norway, it doesn't feel dated or culturally "different" (to boring American me). It feels like it could be happening now, to the man t...
I was not sure that I would like this work. In part because I know that Hamsun, became a fascist later in his life, and that made me think that we would be temperamentally a poor match. Also, I just read Ibsen for the first time and was disappointed, so I quite unfairly was wary of Hamsun. In fact...
Nearly became a bit of a method reader with this one. Not sure why but I fasted for a day and even contemplated sleeping on the cold hard floor - certainly allowed me to immerse a little deeper into the thoughts and feelings of the unnamed protagonist. The book reminded me a bit of Solzhenitsyn's On...
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