Posts Tagged with ‘Fiction’
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The Iron Heel – Jack London’s Oligarchic Rule
18 Jan 2020The 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 2015A 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 2015Needing 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 2015It 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 2015The 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 2014The 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 2014Many 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 2014World 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 2014In 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 2014My literary companion during 5 days in Croatia has been Croatian Nights a joint effort of 19 stories by Croatian and British…
