The Neverending Story – Michael Ende (1979, Tr. 1983)
Yet tell me, My Dear Platinum-eyed Reader, if it is conceivable for the never-ending divinity of letters to corrupt or get desecrated? And is it possible to forget the story which never ends?
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Galápagos – Kurt Vonnegut (1985)
There is no denying that I would enter a vapid land of infertile thought and mundane repetitiveness, were I
If on a winter’s night a traveler – Italo Calvino (1979, Tr. 1981)
Let’s imagine a book which ceases to be a book. Of course it possesses all the physical characteristics a so-called “typical novel”…
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The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1979)
With the successful release of the film Hidden Figures and being that it’s the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 launch disaster, I figured that I’d start 2017 with a switch to non-fiction.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera (1984, Tr. 1984)
So I keep asking myself, what can I actually write about the novel that would reveal as little as possible about its matter?
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An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)
Pride in one’s art is usually encouraged, but what if one’s art supported a cause or a thought process that’s no longer in favor or that has even become denigrated?
Gun, with Occasional Music – Jonathan Lethem (1994)
The following text is a result of taking a deliberate plunge into absorbing waters of the Gun, with Occasional Music
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis (1991)
American Psycho, the book which is evidently open to many interpretations, shows not only how far people from the late 80’s Big Apple went astray handling the social reality
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The Samurai by Shusaku Endo (1980, tr. 1982)
Two months back when I reviewed Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase, I mentioned that the 1970 seppuku of the internationally-acclaimed Yukio Mishima overshadowed the Japanese literary world for some years afterward.
Djinn by Alain Robbe-Grillet (1981, Tr. 1982)
As a kind of self-contained as well as finite wholeness, Djinn, authored by the godfather of the Nouveau Roman himself