La vita istruzioni per l'uso

Riddles, conundrums, charades, puzzles… Life: A User’s Manual is a highly intellectual, absolute and fundamental treatise on the theme of jigsaw puzzles where every chapter is a piece in a puzzle – a fragment of a house, a tessera of the cosmic mosaic… The room’s walls are painted in white gloss. Seve Leggi tutto

Let’s be clear from the outset, ‘Life a User’s Manual’ is my favourite book of all time. It's everything a novel should or ever could be. Big characters, ripping yarns, wonderful descriptions, word play, structural experimentation and a sad truth at its heart... It’s an existentialist work, in essen Leggi tutto

By about page 200, this was firmly in my top 10 fave books. By the end, it seemed to me like a clear-cut canonical biggie (eg, Moby Dick, Infinite Jest, 2666, Ulysses), but better natured than these -- also, it didn't seem like much of a chip was trying to be knocked off the authorial shoulder. Joyc Leggi tutto

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Πεντάστερη κριτική αξιολόγηση και όλα τα αστεροκοπεία μαζί σου, αγαπημένε, πειραματικέ και πρωτότυπε, αρχισαδιστή, Ζωρζ Περέκ, διότι σου παραδίνομαι - όχι αμαχητί - αφού δεν κατάφερα μετά απο πολλές μέρες και νύχτες που περάσαμε μαζί να έχω τη δυνατότητα να μεταφέρω τη γοητεία και την ευφυ Leggi tutto

i may have mentioned this before, but i had an ephiphanal reader experience last fall. last fall i was lucky enough to score a ticket to hear salman rushdie read at cornell. the experience left me not only with a hankering to read sir rushdie, but also to make a solemn promise to myself to read "les Leggi tutto

List of items in my bathroom: abacus, bouzouki once strummed by Warren Ellis, cauliflowers in brocade, Dungeons & Dragoons strategy wargame for Windows ’95, elf ears, Farsi medical dictionary, gorgonzola, Hunter S. Thompson commemorative pineapple, inkwell, Jenga set, knitting needle made from yarn, Leggi tutto