Introducing Camus

Author	George Orwell
ISBN	1421808307

Totally rewritten 19th May 2013.

Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and imperial bigotry. Although this was Orwell's first book and no doubt based in part on his experiences in his first job as a policeman in Burma, his talent is already...

Author	Victor Pelevin
ISBN	0571194052

Set in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes) and as insects, extended the surreal comic range for which Pelevin's first novel Omon Ra was acclaimed by...

Author	John Hawkes
ISBN	0811200639

"No synopsis conveys the quality of this now famous novel about an hallucinated Germany in collapse after World War II. John Hawkes, in his search for a means to transcend outworn modes of fictional realism, has discovered a highly original technique for objectifying the perennial degradation of...

Author

John Heaton

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein’s only book, and less than one hundred pages, is some difficult read for this reviewer.

Even though I was a virgin in the graphic book department until this week, I needed a simplified version to understand this guy.

So, I guess I cheated.

Anyway,...

Author	Albert Camus
ISBN	0394702077

You had me at Caligula, Albert Camus, whose CALIGULA AND 3 OTHER PLAYS has circulated through my private library ever since I took my parent’s copy while in the depth of adolescent existentialism. I collected as much Camus as I could then, from his notebooks to the plays, essays and novels, again, mostly...

Author

Amos Oz

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.

It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in...