by Christa Wolf Prejudices stick – even if they were proven wrong. In my case here, Christa Wolf has the fame to be difficult to read and understand. But I…
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by Juan Goytisolo Disturbing! That is what it is. Or mysterious? It reminded me to Italo Calvinos “Wenn ein Reisender in einer Winternacht” where the book you read is the…
by Jorge Amado It is one of the milestones of Brazilian literature. Everybody in Brazil knows this girl Gabriela, even the illiterate. The book was adapted for television as a…
by Thomas Mann A book of paramount importance of one of the most important writes of all time in the German language. …. And I have read it only at…
by Salman Rushdie One of the most discussed books in the world and I do not know so many people who actually read it. For some reason I also avoided…
by Albert Camus That is the book he got the Nobel Prize for, Well deserved! The cover description – or any synopsis – cannot prepare you for the content. It…
by Lawrence Gonzales I bought the book because I wanted to prove myself that I would be survivor of extreme situations. I am not sure anymore.It is definitely not a…
by Fjodor Dostojewski I already had read all of his big novels, except this one. It was his first one, which actually set the tone for his later work. It…
by Alessandro Baricco The subtitle is: The fairy-tale about the nature of the sea. And that’s what it is: a very poetic book about the sea. The sea is the…
by Edward M. Forster Another great discovery of English literature! The plot seems boring for our modern standards. But how Forster develops his characters, the intrigues between them is just…