- Calligraphy by Hon'ami Kōetsu (1558–1637), Underpainting attributed to Tawaraya Sōtatsu (died ca. 1640), Poem by Kamo no Chomei (ca. 1154 – 1216) If we follow the ways of the world, things are hard for us; if we refuse to follow them, we appear to have gone mad. As I understand it, Hojok...
Hmm. Forty-year-old man has a bit of a health scare, and without finding out the results of his test, starts to think about maybe growing up, maybe starting to have some sort of real relationship with someone (he seems to fail at both friendships and romantic relationships), maybe going back to his...
Ernst Jünger's account of his years fighting as a German soldier on the Western Front during World War One is one of the most graphic I have ever read in terms of descriptions of injuries and violence. That said, much of a soldier's life is routine and boring, and Jünger covers this aspect too.I was...
Yes, of course poetic prose can be beyond annoying and pretentious. But when it works, it works. The Land of Green Plums is dense, blurry, harsh, emotional, intimate and very poetic. It's also effortless, which makes the reading experience even more exciting and disturbing, as I suspect was the writ...
I really love Lichtenberg, my favorite aphorist. I would only recommend this book to anyone who is likewise inclined to him, as it wouldn't likely hold interest for people with no knowledge of his life or collected aphorisms [b:The Waste Books|984015|The Waste Books|Georg Christoph Lichtenberg|http:...
This book consists of a collection of 34 of Roth's feuilletons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuilleton), each of which runs roughly 3 or 4 pages, mostly from the early 20's, tiny slices of daily life in Berlin, with the last from 1933 discussing the plight of Jewish writers in the "Auto-da-Fé of th...
Read By: Charlton Griffon Copyright: 2010 Audiobook Copyright: 2010 Genre: HistoryFile Information================ Number of MP3s: 16 Total Duration: 9:42:40Blurb: This classic war memoir, first published in 1920, is based on the author...
This is a brilliant book..., rescued from obscurity by Sebald... none of the mawkish sentimentality that often mars books of this type -- tightly constructed... absolutely believable... disturbing..., rawhttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Ledighttp://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=&tl=en&u=h...
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