https://msarki.tumblr.com/post/152063909928/agnes-by-peter-stammWritten in a language almost too accessible this slim novella fails to challenge the reader to engage in anything. A book almost anyone could have written, the narration rambles on in a linear manner such as a report one is forced to re...
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...
Beklediğimden çok daha iyi bir okuma keyfi sundu.
I just read a short story by Stamm, a Swiss writer, in the New Yorker. It was beautiful. I'm always suspicious of male writers who use female main characters, because as often as not it seems they're just being exploitative or trying to make some kind of point they don't think they can make with a m...
Abandoned half way through. Tedious, gray, half-hearted, no energy. The main character is supremely uninteresting and vaguely irritating. The story is told relentlessy at arms length.