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
For the longest time I somehow merged Richard Brautigan and Kurt Vonnegut into one person. Even after reading "Slaughterhouse Five" I could never really make two different people out of them in my mind. They were somehow located in the somehow 1960s department of may brain that also occupied Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Betty Friedan... Continue Reading →
Die von mir sehr geliebte Interview Buch-Reihe "Kampa Salon" trifft nach meiner Lieblingsschriftstellerin 1 Siri Hustvedt auf Lieblingsschriftstellerin 2 Margaret Atwood, da geht doch zumindest literarisch das Jahr überaus versöhnlich zu Ende. Der unter anderem für die "Zeit" arbeitende Journalist Caspar Shaller interviewte die Booker Gewinnerin 2019 zwei Tage lang in einem Café in Toronto... Continue Reading →
Andrei Tarkovsky is probably my all time favorite film director with a very specific cinematic athetic. Few directors I think have worked so consistently with the same symbols and motives, creating an atmospheric strange ambiguity, that has a mesmerizing effect. Bird uses an interesting approach to his peruse of Tarkovsky’s interesting techniques, his way of... Continue Reading →
The Western Wind is a marvelous, fascinating, multilayered medieval mystery set in the 15th century in a tiny, poor little village in Somerset in danger of falling off the map. Thomas Newman sort of the intellectual thinker in the village disappears and is found dead in the river. It is unclear if it was murder,... Continue Reading →
OK it looks to me as if Sorokin is the illegitimate brainchild of David Lynch, Dostojewski and Shirley Jackson. It all starts idyllic enough with a country doctor named Garin being stuck in a snowstorm in a little village without any horses for his vehicle. He is on his way to a remote village with... Continue Reading →
Today I would like to enthuse you for one of my favorite books "Orlando" - the longest love letter and the history of literature. It's difficult to imagine who forward thinking Virginia Woolf was to come up with this gender-society-time-bending story of the young Duke Orlando who is Vita Sackville-Wests alter ego. Orlando tells... Continue Reading →
After the audiobook "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" this was my first book I read by him and what a strange experience it is to encounter his nightmarish, eery universe. Lovecraft grouped his stories as follows: "There are my 'Poe' pieces and my Dunsay pieces' and my Lovecraft pieces." Macabre stories (c. 1905–1920); Dream Cycle stories (c. 1920–1927);... Continue Reading →
This book is filled with short intriguing chapters, each chapter focusing on an important period of history. It starts with the Middle Ages / Renaissance and ends with culture and the world right after the fall of the Berlin wall. The chapters are divided by topics/countries like “Cervante’s Spain”, “Washington Irving’s Europe” or “London in... Continue Reading →
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 →
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