César Aira: La confesión [The Confession]
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's La confesión [The Confession]. This is another strange story from Aira, with most of the action taking place in a chair…
José Carlos Llop: El mensajero de Argel [The Messenger from Algiers]
The latest addition to my website is José Carlos Llop's El mensajero de Argel [The Messenger from Algiers]. This novel, written by a writer known in Spain as much for…
Enrique Vila-Matas: Una casa para siempre [A House Forever]
The latest addition to my website is Enrique Vila-Matas' Una casa para siempre [A House Forever], a very inventive post-modern Spanish novel. The Great Greppi is a ventriloquist - he…
Menis Koumandareas
Sadly, I have relatively few Greek writers on my site though I do have a few novels written by Greeks in my library and on my list. One of these…
Irène Némirovsky: Les Chiens et les loups (The Dogs and the Wolves)
The latest addition to my website is Irène Némirovsky's Les Chiens et les loups (The Dogs and the Wolves). This novel, unlike some of her others, is set, initially, in…
Russia’s Open Book
If you do not live the United States or did not get a chance to watch PBS' Russia's Open Book, I strongly urge you to do so if you have…
Irène Némirovsky: Suite française (Suite française)
The latest addition to my website is Irène Némirovsky's Suite française (Suite française), a novel written in 1940-41 but only published in 2004. This book is in two parts. The…
Sebastiano Vassalli: Le due chiese [The Two Churches]
The latest addition to my website is Sebastiano Vassalli's Sebastiano Vassalli: Le due chiese [The Two Churches]. This is set in a fictitious part of Italy but what seems to…
Sebastiano Vassalli: Marco e Mattio [Marco and Mattio]
The latest addition to my website is Sebastiano Vassalli's Marco e Mattio [Marco and Mattio]. Like other Vassalli novels this one is based on a real story, in this case…