Gilbert Adair
Birth date: December 29, 1944
Died: December 08, 2011
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The book is just as great as the movie.
bookshelves: published-1865, slavic, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, translation, radio-4, autumn-2013, play-dramatisation, lit-richer, serial-killer Read from October 03 to 05, 2013 Just the titular story: Leskov's searing classic Russian tale of passion and murder is an emotional rollercoaste...
A Void (La Disparition)–Georges PerecA Lipogrammatic Synopsis ---- which with artful constraint will focus savor, nay passion and by addition of vigorous acuity and highbrow purport, may transplant mirth as though a frolicking Pan full of ambrosial liquor.As his country is torn apart by social and p...
It is hard to read a book when you do not like the main character. At all.And what if the book is written in some sort of odd Ulysses-ish manner? Not inviting.Only two things kept me reading along: (1) the story is set in (ahhh!) Paris and (2) the book is on our list of 1001 Children’s Books You Mus...
A light and really enjoyable read as well as being a mind blowing experience imagining the translator tearing her hair out as she translated it. The translation is fantastic.
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