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    Tag: Readery Book Club

    It takes one word,

    Dear Natalia, In Family Lexicon, tr. Jenny McPhee (2017. Original: Lessico famigliare, 1963), we have the impression of having been accepted as guests at your family’s dinner table: as we…… Read more “It takes one word,”

    11 de March de 2019 by juliana

    One’s prime is elusive

    Dear Muriel, In The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), there is something in the eponymous protagonist that repels us, but there is also something that strongly…… Read more “One’s prime is elusive”

    12 de December de 201813 de December de 2018 by juliana

    Trust is fine, but control is better

    Dear Elfriede, Your novel The Piano Teacher, tr. Joachim Neugroschel (1988. Die Klavierspielerin, 1983) is vile and uncompromising: it dwells on the grotesque, crossed by an undercurrent…… Read more “Trust is fine, but control is better”

    3 de August de 20183 de August de 2018 by juliana

    I was giving the glad-eye like blazes

    Dear Connie, The Laws (1993, tr. Richard Huijing. De Wetten, 1991) reads like a draft of a draft: the shadow of an idea, hovering over the page…… Read more “I was giving the glad-eye like blazes”

    17 de July de 201813 de December de 2018 by juliana

    The sky was red and all my life was in it.

    Dear Jean, In your novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), you seem to be holding up a distorting mirror to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847): if we look…… Read more “The sky was red and all my life was in it.”

    19 de January de 201820 de March de 2018 by juliana

    The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted

    Dear Marilynne, My book club held a heated discussion on your book Housekeeping (1980) in May. I confess we were all enraptured by this compelling story of two…… Read more “The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted”

    8 de June de 201621 de April de 2017 by juliana

    Their victims lie strewn all round

    Dear Elizabeth, I’ve been meaning to write to you since the beginning of April, when the 1938 Club brought me right inside ‘the turned-in heart’ of your…… Read more “Their victims lie strewn all round”

    29 de April de 201613 de December de 2018 by juliana

    But time flows in many streams,

      Dear Kawabata-san, I first read your novel Beauty and Sadness (transl. by  Howard Hibbett) in 2010, and I remember I was not very impressed nor particularly…… Read more “But time flows in many streams,”

    17 de February de 201617 de June de 2016 by juliana

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