Sasha Sokolov: Школа для дураков (A School for Fools)
The latest addition to my website is Sasha Sokolov's Школа для дураков (A School for Fools). Sokolov did not even try to publish this novel in the Soviet Union in…
The latest addition to my website is Sasha Sokolov's Школа для дураков (A School for Fools). Sokolov did not even try to publish this novel in the Soviet Union in…
The latest addition to my website is Emyr Humphreys' A Toy Epic. It is a relatively short novel that tells the story of three boys in 1930s Wales who know…
The latest addition to my website is François Mauriac's Le Désert de l'amour (The Desert of Love). While it does have Mauriac's trademark doom and gloom, it also has a…
A recent study has concluded that US writers are more emotional than British ones, at least since around 1960 (they were about the same before). This is not a major…
The latest addition to my website is Luigi Malerba's Il protagonista [The Protagonist]. This is a novel narrated by a penis. It is not the first novel featuring a penis…
The latest addition to my website is António Lobo Antunes' Que farei quando tudo arde? (What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?). Like Antunes' other works, this one is…
The latest addition to my website is Emyr Humphreys's A Man's Estate. It tells the story of a small village (and one man who has left the village when a…
Back in January, I commented on the forthcoming Granta list of the best 20 young novelists and, in particular, Philip Hensher's comments thereon. Hensher had made his own suggestions as…
The latest addition to my website is François Mauriac's Génitrix (Genitrix). This one is still the gloomy tale that we usually find with Mauriac. In this case, it involves a…
The latest addition to my website is Juan Marsé's El embrujo de Shanghai (Shanghai Nights). This is somewhat different from Marsé's normal style, in that, while there are strong elements…