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    Month: August 2016

    how irrational, how unpredictable is the attraction between people, how fatal its current

    Dear Magda, Your novel The Door (1987, tr. Len Rix) not only begins and ends with a nightmare, but it also reads like one. The recurrent bad…… Read more “how irrational, how unpredictable is the attraction between people, how fatal its current”

    25 de August de 201625 de August de 2016 by juliana

    Magda Szabo

    Magda Szabó (October 5, 1917 – November 19, 2007) was a Hungarian writer. She graduated from the University of Debrecen. She worked as a teacher of Latin and of Hungarian,…… Read more “Magda Szabo”

    25 de August de 201625 de August de 2016 by juliana

    each day for almost everyone in the world was a capitulation at some point

    Dear Elizabeth, The Simple Truth (1955) can be a deceptively slim novel, one whose stories are structured like a set of Russian matryoshkas, each doll hidden inside…… Read more “each day for almost everyone in the world was a capitulation at some point”

    12 de August de 201612 de August de 2016 by juliana

    Elizabeth Hardwick

    Elizabeth Hardwick (July 27, 1916 – December 2, 2007) was an American literary critic and writer. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1939, and was awarded…… Read more “Elizabeth Hardwick”

    12 de August de 201612 de August de 2016 by juliana

    There you go again, narrating through a prism of pain

    Dear Tatiana, Your novel The House in Smyrna (tr. Alison Entrekin, 2015; originally published in Portuguese in 2007) was a puzzling read for me. And not a confortable…… Read more “There you go again, narrating through a prism of pain”

    10 de August de 201616 de October de 2018 by juliana

    Tatiana Salem Levy

    Tatiana Salem Levy (1979) is a Brazilian writer. She was born in Portugal, while her parents were in exile, during the Brazilian dictatorship. Tatiana is of Jewish-Turkish…… Read more “Tatiana Salem Levy”

    9 de August de 20164 de November de 2016 by juliana

    and the jungle passed in on them, seeking to cover them up

    Dear Rose, Your novel The World My Wilderness (1950) is a powerful depiction of the way the Second World War ravaged people’s physical, emotional and moral landscapes. Wandering from…… Read more “and the jungle passed in on them, seeking to cover them up”

    8 de August de 2016 by juliana

    Rose Macaulay

    Emilie Rose Macaulay (1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958) was an English writer. She studied at Oxford High School for Girls and at Somerville College at…… Read more “Rose Macaulay”

    8 de August de 20168 de August de 2016 by juliana

    wade/ through black jade/of the crow-blue mussel-shells

    Dear Adriana, As in your previous books, Crow Blue (2013, tr. Alison Entrekin, originally published in Portuguese in 2010) also depicts  a journey, through which the protagonists -…… Read more “wade/ through black jade/of the crow-blue mussel-shells”

    5 de August de 201616 de October de 2018 by juliana

    And do you know that no character is any good in this world unless that will has been broken completely?

    Dear Antonia, I dare to say your semi-biographical novel, which was  based on your experiences as a boarder at the Convent of the Sacred Heart between 1908…… Read more “And do you know that no character is any good in this world unless that will has been broken completely?”

    1 de August de 20161 de August de 2016 by juliana

    Antonia White

    Antonia White (born Eirene Botting; 1 March 1899, London – 10 April 1980) was a British writer. She attended St. Paul’s Girls’ School, but later left school,…… Read more “Antonia White”

    1 de August de 20161 de August de 2016 by juliana

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