Sunday, November 27, 2016
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane (1895, translated by Hugh Rorrison andHelen Chambers, 1995)
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
"A Summer Novella" by Stefan Zweig (1906, translated by Anthea Bell)
Injury Time by Beryl Bainbridge (1977, republished 2016 by Open Road Integrated Media)
Edward is a somewhat hapless chap, working in dull job and in a marriage with Helen which, if not loveless, is hardly passionate. And he has a mistress – albeit one with three unruly children at home, and no intention of staying submissively in the shadows. His mistress rejoices in the absurd name Binny. Binny is getting very sick of this. Michael is always telling her how he wished he had more time for her. Edwards mangeses an alibi for an evening and to try to calm down Binny,he invites a work friend and his wife over to Binny's place for dinner.
The dinner party turns into a darkly hilarious disaster starting with Binny's a bit drunk friend and neighbor Anne intruding. But then the real disaster occurs when three strangers,two men and a woman stage a random home invasion. They have in mind holding the two couples as hostages against the police,seeking to arrest them. The invaders tie them up. Things get pretty weird. I will leave the remaining plot untold.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
William Trevor May 24, 1928 to November 16, 2016
Monday, November 21, 2016
Beryl Bainbridge A Biography Love By All Sorts of Means by Brendan King(2016)
Beryl Bainbridge A Biography Love By All Sorts of Means by Brendan King is s not just a very good biography, it is a first rate social history and a brilliant account of a woman's struggling to make a living through her writings. Bainbridge had her demons and King kelps us understand them. He takes us through her most important relationships, her trials as a mother and a wife. Bainbridge was also a painter it was a great pleasure to learn of this.
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Schlump by Hans Herbert Grimm (1928, translated by Jamie Bulloch, 2016)
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
The Nėmirovsky Question The Lfe, Death and Legacy of a Jewish Woman in20th Century France by Susan Rubin Suleiman, forthcoming 2017
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge (1991, reissued 2016 by Open Road Intergrated Media)
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Confusion by Stefan Zweig (1927, a novella, translated by Anthea Bell)
Friday, November 11, 2016
The Ballerina and the Body" - A Short Story by Alfred Doblin, 1925, Author of Berlin Alexanderplatz (translated by Damion Searles
My Post on Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin (1878 to 1957) is Weimer Germany's greatest literary work. It is considered to be the first German literary work to use techniques of James Joyce, an influence acknowledged by Döblin. Döblin was a practicing neuro-psychiatrist. He left Germany just before his books were burned.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald (1992)
"Did He Do It" by Stefan Zweig (first published 1987, in The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell)
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge (1989, republished in 2016 by Open Road Integrated Media)
Featured Post
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeletons and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison. - 2020 - 534 pages- Narrative Nonfiction
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeletons and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison. - 2020- 534 pages- Narrative Nonfiction Fos...

-
My Posts on the literature and history of the Philippines Francisco Arcellana (1916 to 2002) was a highly regarded poet, essayist, crit...
-
Nothing Can Destroy the Faith and Strength of the people of the Philippines - Mel u, Quezon City and Candelaria, November 10, 2013- commen...
-
"The Ring" by Byron MacMahon (1976, 4 pages) The Irish Quarter A Celebration of the Irish Short Story March 11 to ? ...