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Posts Tagged with ‘Fiction’

  • The Iron Heel – Jack London’s Oligarchic Rule

    18 Jan 2020

      The name Jack London will ring up associations in most American readers from “To Build a Fire,” his enduringly…

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  • A Test of Wills — Solving Small Crimes not the Big Ones

    09 Nov 2015

    A Test of Wills, (1996) by Charles Todd is the first of what has become a series of some seventeen novels featuring Inspector…

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  • The African Queen: WW I Adventureland

    23 Jul 2015

      Needing a break from my sometimes distressing immersion in WWI memoirs and history [here, here and here] I thought I’d…

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  • Naples Liberated: Curzio Malaparte’s “The Skin”

    14 Jun 2015

    It is hard to think of another work of fiction of such savage irony as Curzio Malaparte‘s La Pelle (1949)…

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  • The Monstrous Enterprise — Céline on the War

    07 Jan 2015

    The first one-fifth of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night, [1934, Ralph Manheim translation, 1983] is from…

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  • A Classic from Poland – “The Doll” by Boleslaw Prus

    28 Dec 2014

    The most  unusual book in my reading universe this year has to be the 1890 Polish classic, The Doll (“Lalka”)…

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  • WW I: The Call of the Soil – Blood and Glory from France

    09 Oct 2014

    Many of the novels written about World War I, by those who fought in it, didn’t appear until a decade…

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  • Beware of Pity – Says Forgotten Austrian Novelist

    14 Aug 2014

    “Beware of Pity.”  Who would think to proffer such advice, in a novel no less, repeatedly and in great detail?…

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  • On War Resistance

    07 Aug 2014

    “If in any country whatever a recruiting campaign were to be launched today for some utterly preposterous war, a war…

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  • WW I: On the Eastern Front in The Forest of the Hanged

    16 Jul 2014

    World War I as it is written of and imagined in European and American minds is almost entirely of what…

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  • Reading Vienna

    08 Jun 2014

      In  the quieter and cooler hours between visiting museums, decoding monuments, walking the hot wide avenues of Vienna I…

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  • Croatian Nights — New Fiction from Croatia

    27 May 2014

    My literary companion during 5 days in Croatia has been Croatian Nights a joint effort of 19 stories by Croatian and British…

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