Fama tardiva

Late fame is a delightful, melancholic novella on the reawakening of dreams and aspirations soothed asleep by the greyness of ordinary life. The story itself has been slumbering for a very long time too: the typoscript, finished in 1895, was saved from the Nazi book burnings and first published in 2 Leggi tutto

Sad, spiraling novella about a failed poet who briefly enters an odd sort of fame with a bohemian group. This is most fascinating for its look at the cultural scene of 1920s Germany, which in many ways (the young artists fulminating against commerciality) reminded me of twitter. The first half is ve Leggi tutto

¿Se nace con el don de escribir, o éste se puede formar con esfuerzo y dedicación? Creo que ambas posibilidades son viables, pero me inclino a pensar que los más grandes escritores han nacido con esa gracia que la naturaleza les regalo. Suele suceder entre muchos de los que somos aficionados a la le Leggi tutto

There are writers out there who make me feel that I'm wearing a bullseye sweatshirt, and through their writing/work, they make a direct hit on the bullseye. The great Austrian author and playwright Arthur Schnitzler is one of the writers that get to me on a personal level on a consistent basis throu Leggi tutto

نوشته‌اند که فروید زمانی در نامه‌ای به شنیتسلر اعتراف کرده بود که به شناخت او از روح و روان آدمی حسادت می‌کند. کتاب حاضر احتمالا یکی از موارد حسادت فروید می‌تواند باشد، هرچند که این اثر جزو آثار شناخته‌شده شنیتسلر نیست و ۸۰ سال پس از مرگ او از میان دست‌نوشته‌هایش پیدا شده است. داستان این نوول، ماجرای Leggi tutto

As a young man, Eduard Saxberger published “Wanderings,” a collection of his poems. And nothing happened. Nothing! So the wannabe poet settles down and gets a gig as an innocuous civil servant. Life goes on. Thirty years later, Saxberger is approached by a youth belonging to “Enthusiasm,” a Viennese Leggi tutto

Nazi iktidarından özenle kaçırılan yazarın ölümünden sonra yayınlanmış psikolojinin derinlerinde gezinen bir kitap. Zeki, özenli ve okunası bir yazar.