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
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Blood Meridian (or the Evening Redness in the West) by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
The wild west has caught the imagination of many, American and non-American alike, for years.
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A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami (1982, tr. 1989)
On November 25th 1970 the most prominent Japanese novelist, Yukio Mishima, committed ritual seppuku after staging a theatrical protest/coup in favor of restoring the imperial system to power. That event sent shockwaves throughout Japan and the Western literary world
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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980, tr. 1983)
This past February, one of the most brilliant contemporaries in the literary world passed away. His name was Umberto Eco, who was an Italian professor in semiotics. In 1980, he won surprising acclaim in the Italian publishing world for The Name of the Rose, and later, in 1983, he had similar international success with the English translation.
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Ransom (1985) by Jay McInerney
Not only was the novel a hit with the majority of book reviewers, its popularity spread throughout the public, and film rights were quickly optioned with famous young actors seeking to the play the protagonist’s role.
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The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (1986)
As both a reader and a writer, I enjoy diverse genres of literature. I however would have to choose mid-20th century British comic fiction as one of my favorites.
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Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson
Cyberspace; the World Wide Web; the internet. Whatever you would like to call the now ubiquitous technology, it’s hard for many to remember a time when humanity wasn’t plugged in and online.