Reading the World
When I first started my site, many years ago, it was not my intention to cover the world. My aim was to review (and therefore encourage others to read the…
Filmed novels
I recently read and posted on my site László Krasznahorkai's Sátántangó (Satantango). I had heard that famed Hungarian film-maker Béla Tarr had made a film of the book, which was…
Novelists in Spanish
When I first started doing this site, many years ago, one of the many gaps in my education that I found was a knowledge of Spanish and Latin-American literature. Even…
Hacked
Last week this blog was hacked, not once but twice. While writing my previous post, I noticed that everything was very, very slow, yet everything else on my computer was…
Ismail Kadare
I have recently read Ismail Kadare's Spiritus. It is the twenty-second of his novels that I have read and, I suspect, the most novels I have read by the same…
The Sufferings of the Kurds
I have just posted to my website the first Kurdish novel I have read. Its title, which translates as Sufferings of the People explains the title of this post. Sadly,…
The Modern Novel or Why I Am Here
When I decided to do this blog, I vowed to myself that it would not be about literary prizes. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, I am not particularly…
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