This is such an intriguing book. it starts out being about prostate problems and becomes a deeply engaging inquiry into the nature of body/mind, pain and silence and change. Parks is a very good writer and his ability to capture the meditation experience is astounding. He also nicely recreates th...
This beautiful book is the tale of the odyssey undergone by the author as he attempts to rid himself of severe pain. Through a deep exploration of his own individual experience and thoughts, he expresses universal dilemmas. Not too much happens outwardly in this book. The author has a bunch of...
After relating a story about my encounter with a train inspector en route from Roma to Firenze while a student in 1975 my neighbor loaned me this book. "You're gonna love this book then". I did! Tim Parks nailed it. The characters, places, smells , and best of all the sayings of the Italians as t...
لیستی دستم بود و داشتم بین قفسه ها دنبال کتاب هایی که می خواستم، می گشتم. چشمم افتاد به کتاب شب های هند. بعد پیش خودم گفتم کتابی که توی اسمش هم از هند نام برده حتمن قرار است مفصل درباره هند نوشته باشد که ماجرایی هم در کنار آن تعریف می شود. هند، لباس های رنگ و وارنگ، موهای بلند، خال روی پیشانی، مک...
One hot night last spring, after waiting fruitlessly for a call from my then lover, with whom I had quarreled the same afternoon, and finding one of my black moods upon me, I flung out of my lonely room on the ninth floor (unlucky number) in a hotel in lower Fifth Avenue and rushed into the stree...
The hugely enjoyable prequel to Mimi's Ghost, this book which first introduced readers to the criminally discontented antihero Morris Duckworth is once again available, to be published simultaneously with the hardcover edition of Mimi's Ghost.
I'm sure this novel was aiming for something deep. Psychological conflict, small groups of strangers in dangerous situation yada yada. Whatever it was, it never got there.The writing is okay, if a bit shallow, and the bokk starts out okay. We get to know the group of canoeists meeting for the sum...
George Crawley has finally got his life running along satisfyingly straight lines. Having made a success of his career and saved his faltering marriage, he is secure in the belief that he is master of his own destiny. Then comes the tragic blow - fate presents him with an apparently insoluble pro...
อ่านสนุกครับ คงเป็นเพราะผมชอบน้ำเสียงในการเล่าและวิธีการเขียนแบบนี้คือ เขียนแบบมองย้อนกลับไปพินิจพิจารณาการกระทำและเหตุการณ์ต่าง ๆ ที่ผ่านมาในอดีต แล้วตั้งข้อสังเกต/ข้อสมมุติฐานกับตัวเองไปเรื่อย ๆ จะเพื่อสร้างคำอธิบาย หรือเพื่อสร้างเรื่องเล่าอะไรก็ว่ากันไปในเรื่องนี้ "ผม" (ริคคาร์โด โมลแตนี) พยาย...
Cosa extraña con el Tabucchi.Lo leo con calma. Disfrutándolo. Incluso breves relatos o novelas un poco más extensas me pueden llevar varios días de lectura. Hay ocasiones en que me pareciera estar caminando entre ruinas. Como esos turistas de Bergman, o de Angelopoulos. Unas tomas largas y estáti...
Presenting the stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, the birth of Athens and the fall of Troy, in all their variants, Calasso also uncovers the distant origins of secrets and tragedy, virginity, and rape. "A perfect work like no other. (Calasso) has re-created . . . the morning of our ...
Morris seems unable to get over the loss of his ex-fiancee Mimi, but then, he should have thought of that before he held her for ransom and ultimately did away with her. Now, he's newly married and gainfully employed, but can't shake his discontent. Just as he is beginning to adjust to his new li...
Bored and broke, Morris Duckworth, an English teacher in Verona, stumbles on a plan for financial salvation - to marry Massimina, a seventeen-year-old student. And if his intentions are frustrated by a suspicious, conservative family, is it any fault of his that the lovely girl chooses to elope? ...
Impulse without fulfilment. Can any Petitions Committee ever right this wrong? Very deliberately on my narrow bed in this nondescript hotel room where at one-thirty or -forty the apparently staid Avvocato Malerba still hasn’t returned to his bed, I start to masturbate over Plaster-cast-tottie. I ...