De Radio 4 Top 400 - The favourite classical pieces as voted for by Dutch radio listeners. Certainly a handsome proportion of religious works in the list. (PDF)
100 Best Last Lines from Novels - How great can a last line be? I’ve read some of the works on the list and can’t say any are [...]
All Quiet On the Western Front is one of those classics more often referred to and talked about than read. It’s one of those books which doesn’t require reading to know the plot, and skimming through the book it almost feels like familiar territory. The book is eminently readable, and despite its brevity, deals with [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...It’s difficult to know what to make of G. V. Desani’s ludicrous autobiography, All About H. Hatterr. As a pure work of literature, the confusing employment of language has led to its comparison to Joyce, and as an author Desani has been compared to the likes of Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov for his use [...]
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Cosmos and Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz
