Literatur-Blog für alle, die keine Angst vor heftigen Mischungen haben. Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf treffen auf Simone de Beauvoir, Star Trek, Philosophie, Science und mehr
Just some adjectives that describe this novel, which is one of my favorites this year: Tender Raw Heartbreaking Beautiful Stunning Ocean Vuong didn't just write a book; he opened his heart and just let it bleed all over the pages. You can tell he is a poet. Reading this shattering portrait of a family cracked... Continue Reading →
Lord of the Flies is one of the most disturbing books I've ever read. It was certainly disturbing when I read it the first time and it still is. With a group of innocent schoolboys who are stranded on an island, the author portrays very realistically human behavior in an environment where civilization no longer... Continue Reading →
The story feels like a very reduced film script which I think is very typical of her novels. There is a subtle subdued bleakness and very little that could be described as a plot. It takes some time to find your way around the get an idea of the characters and what is really going... Continue Reading →
Gesehen: "Lost River" (2014) von Ryan Gosling. Wunderbar verspult, tolle Bilder, großartiger Soundtrack - auch beim zweiten Sehen einfach großartig. Gehört: "Pain" & "Fate"- Boy Harsher, "Lost River" Soundtrack, "Intro" - The XX, "California" - Lana del Rey, "#3", "Blue Calx" & "Cliffs" - Aphex Twin, "wlr-t03" - Whitelabtapes, "ssi aakt" - wii Gelesen: dieses... Continue Reading →
I met Eliot Weinberger at the International Literature Festival in Berlin 2 or was it 3 years ago, not really knowing him then. I had wandered into a reading, waiting for some other event to start and was mesmerized by his reading of "The Ghosts of Birds". Afterwards we ended up chatting for a bit,... Continue Reading →
One of the most beautiful books I own but then all of Judith Schalanky's books are incredibly well made and astoningishly beautiful. Like the author I loved world atlases and globes as a kid (and still do) and constantly travelled the world flicking through or spinning them whilst lying on the living room floor. Schalansky... Continue Reading →
This groundbreaking essay was hard work for me and it took me a while and a second and third reading to be able to somewhat summarize my takeaways. It explores how in the age of mass media audiences can see a work of art or listen to music repeatedly and what the social implications of... Continue Reading →
"I was finally doing something that really mattered. Sleep felt productive. Something was getting sorted out. I knew in my heart—this was, perhaps, the only thing my heart knew back then—that when I’d slept enough, I’d be okay. I’d be renewed, reborn. I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated... Continue Reading →
Richard Feynman is a physicist who taught at Cornell and Princeton, worked on the Manhattan Project and won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965. Feynman was not a big fan of formalities and this dislike is a big theme throughout the book. His father was a sales man who dealt with a variety of... Continue Reading →
Jenny Erpenbeck's powerful novel "Gehen, Ging, Gegangen / Go, Went, Gone" is one of the most moving and clearsighted books I read this year. Richard a former classics professor in the east part of Berlin is getting used to his new routine as a pensioner. He has a big house with an even bigger garden... Continue Reading →
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