"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

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The Prison and the Railway Station

We already encountered W.G. Sebald with his The Rings of Saturn, and today I’d like to bring you his last novel, Austerlitz, published in 2001. The story follows a man named Jacques Austerlitz while he slowly uncovers the truth about his origins and his traumatic

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Someone Has to Clean Up

Wisława Szymborska was a Polish poet, essayist, and translator, born in 1923 and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996 for poetry marked by a sharp, ironic awareness of human life and history. Map: Collected and Last Poems is an English-language volume of Szymborska’s

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Memoirs of Hadrian

Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist, essayist, poet, and translator who became the first woman elected to the Académie française in 1980. No, I’m not kidding. Her full name was Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; “Yourcenar” began as a pen

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3 Comments
  • SpiderCi
    Posted at 18:24h, 06 January Reply

    Fossero tutte così le “befane”….!!! ;p

  • Damiani
    Posted at 12:22h, 08 January Reply

    Scarlet we love youuuuuuuuuuuu!!!

  • Shelidon
    Posted at 22:36h, 08 January Reply

    Klimtiana…

    …mistica…

    …vittoriosa…

    …ammiccante.

    Sì, ma quando torna?

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