The little white attic

In September, I read Moments of Reprieve , my third Primo Levi book after If This Is a Man (aka Survival in Auschwitz ) and The Truce (a...

1/ Niki Jumpei is held captive by the villagers and stuck in a ramshackle house at the bottom of a sand dune, with a woman. See what he thin...

I've just come across a blog post suggesting that readers intimidated by "long, challenging, and/or depressing classic novels"...

For the time being, I don't know what to make of Orlando's sudden sex change (a satire or a more 'literal' version of Freud...

Currently reading "Notes from underground" by Dostoyevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. 1/ The 1st lin...

Still reading "The castle" (Franz Kafka). With Kafka in mind, I see the conflict in the book as arising from K's job and posi...

1/ Reading "The castle".  2/ Once in a while I pick up Kafka's diary and look for some specific stuff or continue reading fr...

http://talawas.org/talaDB/showFile.php?res=8580&rb=0105 "Ý thức mới trong văn nghệ và triết học": Chương 3- "Ý thức cô...

1/ Nabokov says "3 forces make and mold a human being: heredity, environment, and the unknown agent X. Of these the 2nd, environment, i...