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The superb prose of a master, writing about six writers and artists dear to Sebald's heart.| Tredynas Days
Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything. Penguin, 2024. First published 2024.| Tredynas Days
Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything. Penguin, 2024. First published 2024. Those who haven’t read the numerous previous novels by Elizabeth Strout in which the central characters in Tell Me Everything also appear will probably miss some of the nuances in … Continue reading → The post Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
Ernest Hemingway, Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises. Vintage, 2000; first published as The Sun Also Rises in 1926 (in the US); 1927 in Britain with the title Fiesta The central character in Fiesta, Hemingway’s first full novel, is the American … Continue reading → The post Ernest Hemingway, Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
Virginia Woolf's impressionistic account in dense but beautiful modernist style of a young man as seen by others| Tredynas Days
Isaac Babel (1894-1940), The Essential Fictions. Edited and translated from the Russian by Val Vinokur. Northewestern University Press, 2018 This collection contains the following: Openings: 11 stories (published or dated from 1916) The Story of My Dovecot (Childhood Cycle): 6 … Continue reading →| Tredynas Days
Giorgio Bassani, Behind the Door (first published 1964). The Novel of Ferrara, part 4. Translated from the Italian by Jamie McKendrick (Norton, 2018)| Tredynas Days
Giorgio Bassani, Behind the Door (first published 1964). The Novel of Ferrara, part 4. Translated from the Italian by Jamie McKendrick (Norton, 2018) As in the previous sections of Bassani’s collection of stories and novels set in and around the … Continue reading → The post Giorgio Bassani, Behind the Door appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
A young Jewish man's love for a beautiful woman doesn't run smooth; then the 1938 anti-Semitic racial laws transform their lives.| Tredynas Days
Feb-Mar reading| Tredynas Days
Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000), The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles. Pt 2 of The Novel of Ferrara, translated from the Italian by Jamie McKendrick (W.W. Norton, 2016). First published 1958 Giorgio Bassani revised a sequence of novels and short stories into a single entity … Continue reading → The post Giorgio Bassani, The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
Five stories about the ways the citizens of Ferrara behaved during the regime of the fascists after WWI: their shame and complicity.| Tredynas Days
Alexander Baron (1917-1999), From the City, From the Plough, Imperial War Museum Classics, 2019; first published 1948 (library copy)| Tredynas Days
Alexander Baron (1917-1999), From the City, From the Plough, Imperial War Museum Classics, 2019; first published 1948 (library copy) The soldier lives in a drama: he never has the time to perceive it. His life, even in battle, is a … Continue reading → The post A soldier’s life: Alexander Baron, From the City, From the Plough appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
My final post on Henry James's late novel 'The Ambassadors' discusses the nature of James's literary genius.| Tredynas Days
This will be a virtual derive:| Tredynas Days
Trollope's novel about corruption and sleaze in high places foreshadows today's events, plus four very different novels by women writers| Tredynas Days
The superb prose of a master, writing about six writers and artists dear to Sebald's heart.| Tredynas Days
