”I’ve been slowly wearing away at my ignorance and, as I said, I’ve always kept on learning. But that ignorance is still so vast that even today, at seventy, leading this quiet life, I still cherish the hope of being able to embrace everything and experience everything, the unknown and the known, ye...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, spain, published-1994, lit-richer, translation, play-dramatisation, noir, contemporary, madrid, radio-4, mystery-thriller, dodgy-narrator, doo-lally Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from February 18 to March 01, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053693...
Romanzo che è un susseguirsi di pensieri ed elucubrazioni del narratore, che, nel corso di quello che sarebbe dovuto essere un appuntamento galante clandestino, si ritrova con lei, che non è riuscita a diventare la sua amante, morta praticamente tra le sue braccia.Questo evento casuale lo "incanta",...
If you are struck by the beauty of a thought or an idea, just having ventured into Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me's world, do not bother to highlight! It is with high probability that you are going to read this exact same thought or idea further on. It may sound exciting the first time around an...
Undoubtedly a five-star book but the fact that I only "really liked it" is due to all the historical references that bogged down for me, especially near the end. And that is no fault of the writer, it is I who am the culprit here. History is something I respect and take seriously, but in general it ...
Because things so seldomly work out as planned, at least as planned by me, I purchased this title thinking I’d found a new Javier Marías story and would scoop all fellow Marías fans in its reading. A coup. A feather in my cap. Whoohoo! Alas, not only was the story not a new one, it was one I’d read...
This novel blew me away and I'm still working to fit my pieces together. I got lost into Marías' winding train of thoughts and I'm still trying to find my way back to reality. What was it that I liked so much about this novel? Well, everything: the plot, the subtle humor, the flow of words, the idea...
You could say that I wished them all the best in the world, as if they were characters in a novel or a film for whom one is rooting right from the start, knowing that something bad is going to happen to them, that at some point, things will go horribly wrong, otherwise there would be no novel or fil...
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