Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
is all modernism doomed to fail?
Tag: Joyce
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
when did a white man last write a GREAT novel?
A Shorter Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, ed. Anthony Burgess
Can Burgess turn this tough novel into a frothy paperback? No.
Consider the Lobster And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
David bloody Foster bloody Wallace…
Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book Five by Karl Ove Knausgaard
It’s taken me a few more days than I’d hoped, but I’ve just finished reading the fifth book of KarlContinue Reading
What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
The intellectual and emotional vigour with which I’ve approached What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy has left me bawling in the street,Continue Reading
Passages by Ann Quin
Usually, by the end of January I’ve read a novel I expect to influence my reading habits for the restContinue Reading
Swann’s Way (À la recherche du temps perdu 1) by Marcel Proust
I’m writing this in the beautiful Spanish Pyrenees, having spent a day doing little more than reading Proust and lookingContinue Reading
A Rubbish Couple of Days
Over the last few days I have made a series of unforgivable travel booboos. Yesterday I nearly gave myself heatstroke,Continue Reading
Ul-Essaouira-sses: James Joyce and Morocco’s Atlantic Coast
Desperately needing some cooler weather and a low pressure environment in which to cold turkey from the anti-depressants I’d beenContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 