2666: A Novel by Roberto Bolaño
A novel like “2666” is its own preserving machine, delivering itself into our hearts, sentence by questing, unassuming sentence; it also becomes a preserving machine for the lives its words fall upon like a forgiving rain, fictional characters and the secret selves hidden behind and enshrined within them: hapless academic [...]
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2666 by Roberto Bolaño - Review
Scarred Hearts by Max Blecher - Review
Scarred Hearts by Max Blecher
As this novella is set in a TB sanatorium, readers may look for debts to Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain. The sensibility of Scarred Hearts, however, belongs to another world: Bukovina, Polish Galicia, and German-speaking Prague.
For all Max Blecher’s experience of Paris, this is plain writing, never portentous, always attentive to detail, [...]
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