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Piyangie Jay Ediriwickrema is an Attorney-at-Law by profession. Her devotion to literature has taken shape in reading and reviewing books of various genres set in different periods of time. She dabs at a little poetry and fiction of her own and hopes to share her work with the readers in the future.
July 25, 2023

Demian – Hermann Hesse

Demian is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Hermann Hesse. Combining Hesse’s own experiences with theories of hypnoanalysis of Carl Jung, Nietzschean philosophy, and Eastern…

July 3, 2023

J’Accuse – Emile Zola

Emile Zola is one of the most gifted French authors. His works won’t disappoint readers who expect more than mere storytelling. Through his work,…

July 3, 2023

My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell

I never thought that I would experience yet another Lolita in my life. But My Dark Vanessa is a similar kind, because I found…

July 1, 2023

Italian Journey – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In 1786, acting on an impulse, Goethe takes a journey to Italy. He visits many Italian cities including Venice, Verona, Naples, Sicily, and Rome….

July 1, 2023

Time Shelter – Georgi Gospodinov

The 2023 Booker Prize winner, Time Shelter, is an extraordinary book that touches mainly on our relations with history and our own past. Combining…

June 1, 2023

The Geurmantes Way (In Search of Lost Time #3) – Marcel Proust

The Guermantes Way is the third volume of In Search of Lost Time. The volume sets the stage for the story-proper to unfold, after…

May 25, 2023

The Red and the Black – Stendhal

Stendhal wrote The Red and the Black with a twofold intention. The first is to present a psychological portrayal of an ambitious provincial young…

May 12, 2023

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

This book turned out to be quite different from what I expected. From the synopsis, I gathered the novel to be a coloured woman’s…

May 5, 2023

Germinal – Emile Zola

Germinal is one of the most moving novels written about the sufferings of the working class. Zola’s undisguised sympathy for them flows abundantly throughout…

April 1, 2023

Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the best work I’ve read after Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, which I found profoundly informative to amateur writers like…

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