4:36 am in Eastern/Central Europe, fiction, Kiš, Danilo, Recommended, Russia & USSR, short stories | 4 Comments
by Danilo Kiš (1976)
Seven different yet casually interlinked short stories about revolutionaries, mostly centering around the Russian Revolution
3:38 am in fiction, Japan, Oe, Kenzaburo | No Comments
by Kenzaburo Oe (1964)
An alienated youth, resenting the burdens of responsibility that age and marriage has caged him in from reaching his utopian dream of travelling to Africa, is forced to face his deformed newly-born.
6:14 pm in fiction, Italy, Moravia, Alberto | No Comments
Conjugal Loveby Alberto Moravia
During (and a few decades after) the wars Moravia was probably the most widely-known Italian novelist in English-speaking countries. The Conformist and Contempt have been made into films by Bertolucci and Godard. Then there’s also the friendship with Pasolini. Yet these days one (at least in English-speaking world) hardly heard of him, jostled by popular favourites such as Eco and Calvino.
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