Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Études Philosophiques, Castanier, Charles Robert Maturin, Ellen Marriage, H.P. Lovecraft, Honoré de Balzac, lolita, Melmoth réconcilié, Melmoth Reconciled, Melmoth the Wanderer, Nabokov, oscar wilde on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Melmoth réconcilié (Melmoth Reconciled) (1835)
Honoré de Balzac
Thompson Publishing Company, 51pp
Translation by Ellen Marriage
A longer short story from Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, from the Études Philosophiques, and a marked improvement over Jésus-Christ en Flandre. As one may have already deduced from the title, this story is a sequel to Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1830s, Christ in Flanders, Ellen Marriage, Honoré de Balzac, Jésus-Christ en Flandre, La Comédie Humaine, La Peau de Chagrin, short story on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jésus-Christ en Flandre (Christ in Flanders) (1831)
Honoré de Balzac
Thompson Publishing Company, 19pp
Translation by Ellen Marriage
As one of the short stories that makes up La Comédie humaine, Jésus-Christ en Flandre (Christ in Flanders) is a minor work. It forms part of the Études Philosophiques (of which the previously reviewed La Peau de Chagrin is part), [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged danny boyle, q & a, ram mohammad thomas, slumdog millionaire, who wants to be a millionaire on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Q & A (2005)
Vikas Swarup
Black Swan, 361pp
Q & A, a 2005 debut novel by Indian writer Vikas Swarup, is now more famous as Slumdog Millionaire, following Danny Boyle’s 2008 critically acclaimed movie that used this novel as its genesis, and indeed has now been repackaged under that more familiar title. I came to Swarup’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged american letters, james agee, let us now praise famous men, new deal, non fiction, roosevelt, tenant farmers, walker evans on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
James Agee & Walker Evans
Penguin Classics 512pp
Writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans received assignment in 1936 to produce a magazine article on the lives of sharecroppers in the US south. Three years into President Roosevelt’s “New Deal” – a sequence of economic planning aimed at alleviating [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2666, Arturo Belano, Cesárea Tinajero, latin american fiction, Los Detectives Salvajes, Natasha Wimmer, Octavio Paz, picador, Rómulo Gallegos Prize, roberto bolano, The Savage Detectives, Ulises Lima on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Los Detectives Salvajes (The Savage Detectives) (1998)
Roberto Bolaño
Picador, 577pp
Translation by Natasha Wimmer
Roberto Bolaño has become a publishing phenomenon. This Chilean author, who died in 2003, has posthumously been praised as one of the most significant writers of his generation, with two of his novels in particular being highly praised, 2666 (2004) and this, Los [...]
