by Joseph Conrad Actually I started to read it because I found Conrad’s biography interesting. Born in the Ukraine as Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski, he spent around 20 years…
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by João Ubaldo Ribeiro Do you want to understand Brazil? Read this book! Do you want to know why the north-east is so rich in culture? Do you want to…
by Italo Calvino Now I understand why it is a classic. When you read the synopsis it is rather a downer but I got sucked into this play of mirrors,…
by Paul Britton It is an auto-biography. He is the pioneer in using psychology in the forensic medicine in England. He, as many others, talks about the cases where his…
by Michel Houellebecq It is a typical Houellebecq: he has no illusions about humans and their ability to love (or better inability). Two half brothers, Michel, the molecular biologist and…