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. This volume sets the stage for the story proper to unfold,…
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…
April 1, 2023 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov This was a nightmare of a read. I’ve been postponing this read for ever so long, and now I feel perhaps I should have…
March 24, 2023 Within a Budding Grove/In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time #2) – Marcel Proust Within a Budding Grove or In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is the second part of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost…
March 4, 2023 If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino Don’t ask me what this novel is about, Reader, for my interpretation will differ from yours. But if you are the kind of reader…