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Maigret sits in judgement on the bourgeoisie of a small Breton town I'm new to Maigret. "The Yellow Dog", the sixth Maigret, is my first Maigret novel, so apart from what I read in "A Maigret Christmas And Other Stories" I came to this novel with no particular knowledge or expectations of Maigret ...
This is a story about multiple, or rather, varied identities -- the kind that wears masks to suit different settings and circumstances. The fluidity of such an identity is subject to perversion, in that it is shaped, more often than not, by how one wants to be perceived by others. This a somewhat vo...
This tells the story of the fluidity of identity -- lost and gained, especially that of migrants (or refugees). I have heard accounts of people who have moved to a different country, who say, that after a passage of time, they can no longer identify completely with their homeland, or do they feel tr...
Okay, cards on the table time... I'd read the three books for which Milan Kundera is best known - 'The Joke', 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting' and 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' - and I loved them all. In fact, I'd just re-read TULOB again and was as impressed and immersed as last time, th...
3.5So far this is undoubtedly one of the strangest book I have ever read, with a rather peculiar cover and title! However reading this book was like watching an illusionary painting or a mirage may be. The story of two lovers Chantal and Jean-Marc appears to be lucid, simple but its rather bizarre a...
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