4451moanaJul 1, 20226 min readThinking in Time (book review) Suzanne Guerlac An Introduction to Henri Bergson 220701: (this is eleven years later reread) recent read (220625)[book:Bergson’s Philosophy of...
4451moanaJan 25, 20222 min readDeleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty (book review) Dorothea E Olkowski The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception 220124: three of my favourite philosophers, so it is no surprise...
4451moanaDec 22, 20219 min readTime Regained (book review) by Marcel Proust 201119: well this is conundrum for though it is not like there are no other books to read, the question is- should i try to read it in...
4451moanaDec 4, 20211 min readParis in the Twentieth Century (book review) Jules Verne 210125: have to up the rating from three, as it persists in melancholy way. this is not Jules Verne as science fiction/engineering...
4451moanaNov 22, 20211 min readThe Lover (book review) Marguerite Duras 211121: another reason to improve my french reading. read at least three times. this slim novella is exactly what i want in romance:...
4451moanaNov 20, 20213 min readThe Prospector (book review) J.M.G. Le Clézio Carol Marks (Translator) 291212: here is a book that uses no particular structural innovations, that on occasion slips to present tense,...
4451moanaNov 20, 20212 min readDesert (book review) J.M.G. Le Clézio C. Dickson (Translator) if you like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com 211120: decided to read this again, decided...
4451moanaNov 17, 20211 min readCarmen (book review) Prosper MériméeGeorge Burnham Ives (Translation) 131218: everything you want in hopeless romantic dysfunctional love. and an opera...
4451moanaNov 17, 20211 min readDivine Madman (book review) Dominique Rolin 220319: fun./review to come... ok review now days later. we lived in bruxelles when my father was on sabbatical so my parents really...
4451moanaNov 17, 20211 min readHuis Clos (book review) Jean-Paul Sartre210419: read somewhere that to understand ‘la nausee’ (nausea) you have to read his philosophy text l’etre et le neante’ (being and...
4451moanaNov 17, 20212 min readJ.M.G. Le Clezio: Le nomade immobile (book review') Gérard de Cortanze 210419 from 2000s?: this is read many years ago, in french, in quotes i could follow from having read le clezio in translation, but it...
4451moanaNov 16, 20212 min readLa Jalousie (book review) Alain Robbe-Grillet210719: this is the translation which i have read, which reviews are more or less the same as this [book:Jealousy & In the...
4451moanaNov 16, 20212 min readLes Gommes (book review) Alain Robbe-Grillet 130519 read in french: i have read this before in translation years (decades...) past, 3rd r-g i think. since then have read some...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readThe Facts of Winter (book review) Paul Poissel Kakyoung Lee (Illustrator), Paul La Farge (Translator) 050719: there is an interesting point about how literal translation of the title...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readRed Rackham's Treasure (book review) Hergé,Tintin #12, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper (Translator), Michael Turner (Translator) 200725: forgot how much i loved this tintin...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readAutoportrait (book review) Édouard Levé Lorin Stein (Translator) 200728: brutal, benign, bewildering, beautiful (now i have to read 'wittgenstein's mistress'...). as mentioned...
4451moanaNov 14, 20212 min readWaiting For Godot (book review) Samuel Beckett050519: went to see production of this play last night. independent theatre, performance, company, simple, single set, industrial stage,...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readThe 6 Voyages of Lone Sloane (book review) Philippe Druillet(Lone Sloane #2) 141019: whoa. now this is what i mean when i say the best art is that which expresses itself in the right medium. short...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readThe World of Edena (book review) Mœbius(Le Monde d'Edena #1-4) Laure Dupont (Translator), Brandon Kander (Translator), Diana Schutz (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Philip R....
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readThe Book Tour (book review) Andi Watson210522: eerie, excellent, exasperating. never been on book tour but this seems to capture its strange nature, in everything from just...