Aleš Šteger: Odpusti (Absolution)
The latest addition to my website is Aleš Šteger's Odpusti (Absolution). This is a very funny book in the great East European tradition of using humour to damn the political…
The latest addition to my website is Aleš Šteger's Odpusti (Absolution). This is a very funny book in the great East European tradition of using humour to damn the political…
The latest addition to my website is Julien Gracq's Un beau ténébreux (A Dark Stranger). This is is Gracq's second novel, published soon after the war, and after Gracq had…
Just back from a few days in the Netherlands. Though we visited a few cities, it is The Hague that was most interesting from the literary point of view. As…
The latest addition to my website is Dušan Šarotar's Panorama (Panorama). This is a superb meditative novel, along the lines of the work of W G Sebald and Claudio Magris,…
The latest addition to my website is Yordan Radichkov's Les récits de Tcherkaski [Tales from Cherkazki]. As you can see I read the French translation of a selection of these…
The latest addition to my website is Abdulrazak Gurnah's Gravel Heart. Salim is a Tanzanian, living in Zanzibar. He lives with his parents but, when he is seven, his father…
The latest addition to my website is Wright Morris' Ceremony in Lone Tree. This is a follow-up to his The Field of Vision, but, in my opinion, a much better…
The latest addition to my website is Martin Wickramasinghe's ගම්පෙරළිය (The Uprooted) Part 1: (The Village). This is the first novel in a trilogy which, though translated into English, is…
The latest addition to my website is June Allison Gibbons' The Pepsi-Cola Addict. The novel was published by a vanity press and is now virtually impossible to obtain. June Allison…
The latest addition to my website is Claudio Magris' Danubio (Danube). This is not really a novel, though Magris himself calls it a drowned novel, and the introduction to my…