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 “ Signs and Symbols"  by  Vladimir Nabokov: Whatever one thinks of Nabokov, the man can write. He is a master of his art and a good ex...

  “Alice Knott” by Blake Butler: In a shockingly blasphemous scene, at least blasphemous so to connoisseurs of art, the novel sets the tone...

  “The Italian Teacher“ by Tom Rachman: What follows if one allows ethics to undermine aesthetics?  Does great art justifies monstrous se...

  “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel: The collapse of civilization, a dystopian world, a possible future. It has been thought of i...

  “Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro: Right from the beginning: I did not like the book. How does it feel to be not-quite human and t...

 “ Cat’s Eye ” by Margaret Atwood: This is Atwood’s refreshingly honest while slightly accusing, slightly misogynistic version of a “Künstl...

Das Dunkeln war wie Reichtum in dem Raume, darin der Knabe, sehr verheimlicht, saß. Und als die Mutter eintrat wie im Traume, erzitterte im ...

  “Outline“ by Rachel Cusk: In this first instalment of the trilogy the narrator, a woman writer who flies to Athens to teach a writing cou...

  “Second Place” by Rachel Cusk: A woman, interested in art, invites a painter whom she always admired to visit and live in the solitary ot...

  “The Infatuations ” by Javier Marias: What a great book, what a wonderful novel, what an extraordinary story!  The book starts with the de...

  Literature . For some a mild detergent to wash off the smut and dirt of everyday life and then bask and roll in the clean sheets of imagin...

  New (and older) novels I read since May,18th this year: “The Apartment” by Teddy Wayne: At first promising but then soon developing into a...

  - …, but his body was nowhere to be found. Instead of his corpse, they discovered a flower with a circle of white petals…. -   Metamorphos...

  “Always be reading something, he said. Even when we’re not physically reading. How else will we read the world?” - from “Autumn” by Ali Sm...