Kafka's works all read like parables, but what if anything they are parables of is obscure. The typical Kafka tropes are here. The dreamlike matter-of-factness of the surreal, the arcane bureaucracy, the continual circling of a goal that never comes any closer and whose purpose is obscure. There...
This was a bit exhausting! But I finished!!
You’re more likely to know William F. Buckley, Jr., than Michael Harrington, and I’ll use the former as a point of contrast and departure. Both attended Yale in the 1940s, Buckley as an undergrad, Harrington in law school. Each commenced his education as a conservative Republican at a liberal univer...
You’re more likely to know William F. Buckley, Jr., than Michael Harrington, and I’ll use the former as a point of contrast and departure. Both attended Yale in the 1940s, Buckley as an undergrad, Harrington in law school. Each commenced his education as a conservative Republican at a liberal univer...
This is an excellent companion to the World War One readings I've been doing for the past several weeks, a subject pretty unknown to me.The Brothers Ashkenazi follows the lives of twin brothers in Lodz, Poland from the latter 1800's to just past the first world war. Max, the striver and schemer, wor...
An extraordinary combination of beauty and subtle, paranoid horror - "growing inured to disappointment". Who else can make snow sinister (scary perhaps, but surely not sinister)? It ends in the middle of a sentence, more tantalisingly still, it ends with a mysterious old woman just about to say some...
Dug this out of my library in Sweden - one of those books I really WANT to read but still have not done so. My father's side of the family came from Kiev to NY in the beginning of the 1900s, so this ought to be sort of a story of my great grandfather's and his family's experiences.
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