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...

130519 read in french: i have read this before in translation years (decades...) past, 3rd r-g i think. since then have read some...

Kakyoung Lee (Illustrator), Paul La Farge (Translator) 050719: there is an interesting point about how literal translation of the title...

200710: this five does not mean i understand it all, but as with philosophy i enjoy not understanding. i am not scientific but my father...

Lorin Stein (Translator) 200728: brutal, benign, bewildering, beautiful (now i have to read 'wittgenstein's mistress'...). as mentioned...

Phyllis I. Lyons (Translator) 201003: the man who wrote 'to the point of murder'... then in paranoia tries to extricate himself from how...

Culture #2 201102: wondrous, wildly imaginative, witty. excellent space opera of different sort. vision of conflicts an utopian society...

Chris Andrews (Translator) 210404: now here is something opposite the knausgaard i have just read. concise, comic, complete,...

Margot Livesey (Introduction) 140220: second reading. years (decades...) after first, so i knew what i was getting, as this is one of the...

201209 third reading: my father (physical chemist) died 2 March and since then i keep discovering things i would talk to him about, this...

050519: went to see production of this play last night. independent theatre, performance, company, simple, single set, industrial stage,...

(Literary Conversations Series)

(Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) ??? '90s?: i have to admit i prefer this play over anything else the man wrote: this critical...

Readers in the 'liaisons Dangereuses' ??? 000s?: no other book than liaisons dangereuse has made me so much want to read french. not...

Connections in Medieval Romance, Modern Fantasy 201215: read this years ago but just came up in memory when talking books, so decided to...

Translation and the Meaning of Everything 110912: i only read in english, so i am so very glad there are people out there who translate....

great lost review

The Detektiv and the Russian Way of Crime 290515: now i have a whole sort of lit to look for... and maybe reevaluate those martin cruz...

The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading 150715: this is a later addition: in answer to the title question 'how to...' I must offer my...

Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs' Fiction 090615: tangential review: i have read many works by burroughs, but actually...