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Nom: Robert Adlam
Langue: Anglais
Ville: Farnham Surrey
Pays: GBR
Nombre de livres: 11
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Langue: Anglais
Ville: Farnham Surrey
Pays: GBR
Nombre de livres: 11
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Some philosophers think that the best modern philosophy is being done by writers such as J.M. Coetzee. Waiting for the barbarians shows why: the text reads like a brilliant extended lecture on ...
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Independence Day is a novel I gave up reading. I made it to page 389 out of a total of 451. But my interest simply slipped away. Somehow on those pages of tedium, on the roads of middle this, ...
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The extraordinary title of this book is taken from a letter written by seven Tutsi Pastors to the senior Pastor of their district. They were about to be massacred – along with a thousand others ...
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If ever our times needed a book it is Hermann Hesse’s philosophical novel, The Glass Bead Game . Published in 1943, Hesse’s beautifully written work analyses the complex tension between the ...
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I once worked in a Maximum Security prison. My office was right next to the place where they used to hang the people who’d been condemned to death. The man who brought me my coffee in the ...
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One is a heart-stopping novel. It examines the extremes to which a society might go in order to secure thought and behavioural control. It’s like reading one’s way through a slow-motion ...
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Let’s cut to the chase: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a remarkable and brilliant achievement. I would choose this work as the last text on any course devoted to educating men. ...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four has a legitimate claim to be the novel of the 20th century. It is simultaneously an essay about the nature of political power, a reflection on the human condition and an ...
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Titus Groan is a unique literary achievement: like all great works of art it has its source not in history nor in politics but in magic. This is a long-haul book: set in the extraordinary world ...
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Anna Karenina is a terrific novel. It gives us a portrait of Russia at the onset of modernity. Deeply naturalistic, at times the text seems to rise out of the ground itself; there are moments ...
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We is a breath-taking novel. One of the most overlooked masterpieces of 20th century writing, it is an intellectual and literary jewel: every page sparkles with vivid description, challenging ...
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Walter Grond
Beat Mazenauer
Ann Morgan
Barbara Kollmann
Freie Bibliothek
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K. Heinz Duthel