Those who leave by night- trains leave for ever - Kees Popinga from The Man Who Watched The Trains Go ByKees Popinga is a dull man who lives in a well-ordered existence, where everything including his wife is admirably above-board,"one might have said of her..that she was the ' best make' of Dutch w...
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/74935375533/agota-kristof-and-her-trilogyHe says to me, "We're all dying of one thing or another. That's what all the experts say, anyway.""What else do they say, the experts?""That the world is fucked. And that there's nothing to do about it. It's too late."My wife and...
What do it think? I think I'd do this book no justice by trying to review it. Instead I'll just point anyone to Vollman's afterword if they are interested in the book, that man knows what he is talking about.
When I was younger, I used to have a recurring dream about a world I haven't experienced in real life: I found myself in a place that was being bombed. I was hiding inside a house, a deafening noise around me; through the windows I could see the planes and hear the explosions. I was living intensely...
Toughening exercises....resistance....a composition.War.....mortal solitude.....a compositionLove....objectivity.....a composition.Truth.....lies....a composition.Words.....immortality.....a composition.The sharpened graphite moves silently in the dark attic on naive white paper sheets, reciting nig...
A crossword history is a sure thing right? I liked the book, didn't love it due to the snobbishness of the Author. I actually really disliked this guy enough to want to stop reading. I'm glad I didn't because the non-personal bits of this book are quite good. A good read for any crossword lover!
A very strange and uneven Simenon. At first, the premise is intriguing: a man, François Combe, leaves his flat due to the noise his neighbor and his neighbor’s odd guest make. How Simenon handles city life—and here, more especially, the pulse and feel of Manhattan—is very acute in the opening scenes...
Wow. Disturbing. Haunting. Fascinating. I didn't want to stop reading it. I wanted to turn around and start from the beginning again.I completely agree with goodreader Lorenzo Berardi's review, especially: "And then the second and the third part of the trilogy are a complicated mechanism in which ...
Wow. An incredible journey that takes the main character Frank from self-destruction to redemption. Frank, is an 18 year old, in an occupied country during WWII. He lives with his mother in a whorehouse and spends his time with thuggish losers. He's angry and without direction and so starts on a co...
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