Golding is one of the few writers whose complete novels I’ve read, so now I’m getting around to re-reading one or two. From this perspective, his novels fall into 2 categories: those I …| Obooki's Obloquy
One of the good things about reading these multi-volume novels so slowly, is that you’ve no idea any longer what happened in any of the previous parts. I think at some point Christophe (or po…| Obooki's Obloquy
I’m not aware of ever having heard anyone mention Sansevero or Andrea Giovene, and yet volumes of the book can be found from time to time occupying secondhand shops. There are in fact two edi…| Obooki's Obloquy
I read another book once by Tibor Dery, but since I can find no reference to it on this blog, it must have been a while ago. I can’t remember anything about it either – not even the nam…| Obooki's Obloquy
Amalie Skram isn’t much mentioned in the English-speaking world (if you type her name into Amazon, it asks you: Did you mean “amelie scream”?). My own 2014 review of Betrayed make…| Obooki's Obloquy
I associate Octave Mirbeau with pornography – or at least, erotica. Maybe some of it is (the other books I have of his are Le Jardin des Supplices and Le Journal d’une Femme de Chambre)…| Obooki's Obloquy
I was lead to read this by a concatenation of ideas. I was reading a short-story by Jean-Christophe Rufin, which mentions it, and then I happened to be re-watching Orson Welles’ adaption of I…| Obooki's Obloquy
(Maybe the title would make more sense, if I could figure out how to do accents on Wordpress). I think every writer should write at least one short book, so that I can read it and make up my mind o…| Obooki's Obloquy
This is not exactly an obscure book (except maybe to literary people). It won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2010. It was a left-over from a sci-fi project from last year, mostly on the subject…| Obooki's Obloquy
I started this, as you may remember, at the beginning of the pandemic; and now I’ve finished, as is fitting, towards the end. (My government has determined that the pandemic will finally end …| Obooki's Obloquy