The Neverending StoryBy Michael EndeA Review by Eric Allen."ONLY TWO STARS," you cry, "Eric, have you no soul!?!?!" You're obviously going by the movie, which is AWESOME, and have never actually read the book it was based on, which is not so much. When I was six or seven, the Neverending Story ca...
«زندگی ما گذراست، حقیقتی‌ست، اما تا همین جایش هم زیادی گذشته.»این اولین جمله ای بود که در کتاب مرگ قسطی توجهم را جلب کرد. کتابی تلخ و تاریک که از زبان یک پزشک نقل می شود. و در طول داستان می فهمی که چرا «تا همین جاش هم زیادی گذشته» و چه طور می شود که قسطی مرد. کتابی که نشانت می دهد دنیای مدرن با ه...
(Dovrei chiedermi, in primo luogo, che cosa ho letto, visto che nell’introduzione Gianni Celati scrive che lo stile céliniano «dà alle forme argotiche [le parlate popolari] un sapore da lingua classica, lontana e straniera rispetto alle norme correnti» e genera un «effetto irriproducibile in trad...
Our Journey..."To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength."Celine's first novel begins with the words, "Here's how it started" and finishes "...and that would be the end of us."In between is...
By the time cranky French anti-patriot Louis-Ferdinand Celine scratched out North, he had wandered a far distance from the truculent cataclysms of his Journey to the End of the Night. Celine had slipped from acclaimed iconoclast to outsider disgrace. Branded an anti-Semite, reviled as a Nazi symp...