The Last Days of Mankind

Author	Peter Høeg
ISBN	0385315147

She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love.  She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land.  And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...

It happened in the Copenhagen snow.  A six-year-old...

Author	Harold Bloom
ISBN	1573225142

Literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list-it is a vision. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the great works...

Author	Max Frisch
ISBN	0156421356

April 20, 2011:

I bought this book in 1979 and read it sometime in the early 80's.

It's only a couple of hundred pages, so when Praj asked me to review it, I thought, hey, why not re-read it (even though I very rarely re-read books).

April 22, 2011:

Re-reading this novel...

Author	Michael Gerard Bauer
ISBN	1862916667

There's no easy way to put this, so I'll say it straight out. It's time I faced up to the truth. I'm fourteen years old and I have Ishmael Leseur's Syndrome. There is no cure. And there is no instant cure to not fitting in. But that won't stop Ishmael and his intrepid band of misfits from taking on bullies, bugs,...

Author

Elfriede Jelinek

Quel est le destin d’une ouvrière, ou plutôt comment échapper à son destin quand on est ouvrière ? Le plus simple : le mariage. Encore faut-il choisir avec circonspection son futur époux et se garder des séductions du sexe. L’amante doit apprendre à gérer son corps jeune et attrayant,...

Author	Arthur Schnitzler
ISBN	1901285162

In naufragio verso la vecchiaia

A 53 anni (esattamente l'età di Schnitzler quqndo scrisse il testo), Casanova è attanagliato "dall'inqietudine dell'avanzante vecchiaia" e colto dalla nostalgia per la natìa Venezia.
Attende a Mantova un segno di riappacificazione da parte dei...