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Harper Lee. 1989 [1960]. To Kill a Mockingbird. London: Arrow Books. 309 pages Normally, I stick to reading and summarizing contemporary literature. Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird does not fit into this category. So, the inclusion in this series came about accidentally. I was in a Bangkok bookshop where I first stumbled…
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Anne Berest. 2023. The Postcard. A Novel. New York Europa Editions. The original French publication appeared in 2021, entitled La card postale, at the Editions Grasset & Fasquelle. It was translated by Tina Kover. Claire Messud. 2024. This Strange Eventful History. London: Fleet. Yael Van Der Wouden. 2024. The Safekeep. A Novel. Dublin: Viking, an…
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This novel tells part of the story of Claire Messud’s family in fictionalized form. It is a massive text filled with dense atmospheric prose (sometimes, I could not help thinking that fewer words would have been better) and occasional dialogues. Her writing style captured my attention, and I very much looked forward to my daily…
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Theme: Consciousness and communication as separate autopoietic systems linked via structural coupling Normally, my book summaries are about recently published novels and general-interest non-fiction books. This one is an exception (it remains to be a summary; it is not an essay). It was prompted when I began reading Anil Seth. 2021. Being You: A New…
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Perhaps, readers should start this novel after its last page. There, they will find a “Discussion Guide” with eleven questions. One might get the impression that this novel was a reading assignment in a course on contemporary literature for a student who, for her assignment, chose a novel that problematizes the work of mumfluencers who…
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Admittedly, I am not normally a reader of Slavoj Žižek. I have only watched or read a couple of interviews with him. Nevertheless, I bought this book because I am interested in its topic and thought that he might have something interesting to say about it. Readers should be warned that the title is misleading,…
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435 pages At 435 pages, The God of the Woods is a rather long mystery novel, divided into eight parts. Each part contains short sections headlined by character names. There are eight in total, five of them women. Louise has 18 entries, Tracy 15, Alice 17, Judyta 30, and Barbara 1. Among the men, Jacob,…
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