Discussing the Irish Short Story – A Mirror in the Dark
When Mario Vargas Llosa wrote about Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s gem One Hundred Years of Solitude, he pointed out that Macondo is a world itself, just like Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, a…
Paul Auster’s Museum of Ordinary
Sunday is a perfect day to pay a visit to Auster’s museum of ordinary where magic lies in the subtlety of one’s observations. It would be good to point out…
The Chaos of Being Alive in Ali Smith’s The Accidental
Reading The Accidental resembles the way raindrops are traced on a windowpane. Firstly, you notice they move independently, without any rules. They make their way slowly, curving as they please…
About a Boy, Nick Hornby: The book or the film – is that the question?
Discussions about books and film adaptations always seem to divide people. Book-lovers vs. film-lovers. You feel obligated, as if by some social norm, to choose a side and argue in…
Cohen’s bunch of lonesome heroes
Cohen’s writing career spans decades and includes numerous volumes of poetry as well as two novels. One of the two, The Favourite Game is not your typical novel, but poetry transformed…
Five Famous Fiends
Author's note: This list is, of course, completely biased. Where there is light, there must be darkness, and where there is good, evil must also dwell. Upon our earthly abode,…
To Virginia Woolf, who created stars out of waves
"The waves showed that uneasiness, like something alive, restive, expecting the whip, of waves before a storm." - Jacob’s Room Where does one start when trying to approach the grandeur of…