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The Wild Ass’s Skin (Peau de chagrin)
Journey to Perplexity —
Authority: 121
The Wild Ass’s Skin is the weirdest novel by Balzac I’ve read to-date. It was his second major novel in his vast Human Comedy , and it features several characters who reappear later in the series, albeit not always in a consistent manner. In it, we have Balzac’s pseudo-science, fascination with magic, some ...3 days ago -
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The Frugal Chariot —
Authority: 119
In Search of Lost TimeFor a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say to myself: "Im falling asleep." (Swanns Way, p. 3)The search goes on and with it the panoply of themes that Proust weaves together like threads of a ...1 week ago -
A Void: Now How About That?
(Mis)readings —
Authority: 106
Looking for a book missing from an expensive bookstore’s shelves, I stumbled upon another title which immediately finds itself in my hands. The front cover, a violet expanse with a lower corner inhabited by an army of minuscule letter E’s in different pink shades, caught my attention. I turned to the blurbs in the ...1 week ago -
Fiasco II – The horror, the horror…
Journey to Perplexity —
Authority: 121
I finished Zola’s novel The Debacle , and I feel as if I barely survived. The book is absolutely harrowing in its depiction of the horror, gore, and sheer terror of war. The graphic detail – heads blown off, entrails flying, hideous and ghoulish atrocities – are the sort of thing we expect in movies and ...1 week ago -
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The Frugal Chariot —
Authority: 119
Krapps Last TapeOn this day in 1958 Samuel Becketts Krapps Last Tape was first performed. According to the authorized biography (Damned to Fame, James Knowlson, 1996), it was one of the authors favorite works -- a "nicely sad and sentimental" play about which he felt "as an old hen with her last chick,":It will be ...2 weeks ago -
FIASCO!!
Journey to Perplexity —
Authority: 121
File this under incompetent leaders of great states, right next to George W. Bush: The Paris of today that everyone dreams about was given to us in the 1860s and 70s by this man, Napoleon III, and his civil servant, Baron Haussmann. His reign began in liberal democratic enthusiasm, progressed to despotism by way ...2 weeks ago -
Life becomes very interesting when one feels one is dying
Pechorin's Journal —
Authority: 114
Louise de Vilmorin’s 1951 novella Madame de ___ is a beautifully crafted gem of a work. Deliberately written to evoke the style of French 18th Century literature, it is a small tale of the fate of a woman who loves unwisely (in a society where to love at all is quite unwise) and of how her most treasured ...2 weeks ago -
It was winter, and it was dark.
Pechorin's Journal —
Authority: 114
The Prone Gunman is Jean-Patrick Manchette’s most famous novel translated into English, though since only two of his novels have been translated that’s not perhaps saying too much. Both The Prone Gunman and earlier novel Three to Kill have been published in the UK by the always excellent Serpent’s Tail, but ...3 weeks ago -
Cyrano de Blogerac
Alexandria —
Authority: 441
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696) was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most of her letters, celebrated for their wit and vividness, were addressed to her daughter. Her letters provide much insight into the social mores and customs of ...3 weeks ago
