book-review
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The Spiritual Terror of Modern Art – Can We Make Ourselves Beautiful?
This [modern] art is the work of your neighbors, your contemporaries, human beings who are crying out in despair for the loss of their humanity, their values, their lost absolutes, groping in the dark for answers. It is already late, if not too late, but if we want to help our generation we must hear…
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Book Review: The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
How I Ended up Reading this Book I don’t normally read contemporary fiction. This is for several reasons, but the main one is that I don’t have a reliable standard of quality to judge if this or that work is worth it. I don’t trust bestseller lists and recommendations by mainstream magazines the same way…
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Lost Illusions – A Lesson for Poets
I recently finished Honoré de Balzac’s Lost Illusions, one of the most popular works from his multi-volume magnum opus, The Human Comedy. Comprising three parts, it tells the story of two talented young men, David Séchard and Lucien Chardon, and their struggle to overcome poverty and establish themselves in the tumultuous and treacherous world of…
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Turgenev’s Sketches from A Hunter’s Album: On The Value of Nature
This is part one of a series of posts exploring Ivan Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album. I recently finished reading Ivan Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album. It is a compilation of short “sketches” about Russian country life written by Turgenev whilst hunting on his mother’s estate in the early 19th-century, and was first…
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