Angus Davidson
Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous-his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological ... [... more]
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Slavonic Literature: The Dawn of European Literature
 Author: W. R. Morfill Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 808 EAN: 9781432661564 ISBN: 1432661566 Number Of Pages: 276 Publication Date: 2007-06 [... more]
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Robert Hollander
Robert Hollander taught Dante's Divine Comedy to Princeton students for forty-two years, and is the author of a dozen books and more than seventy articles on Dante, Boccaccio, and other Italian authors. He is Professor in European Literature ... [... more]
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Numbers in the Dark
Contempt is a brilliant and unsettling work by one of the revolutionary masters of modern European literature. All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous-his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological ... [... more]
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Crabwalk
From Amazon.co.uk: With Crabwalk, a book that has enjoyed tremendous success in Germany, Günter Grass proves yet again that he is one of the most formidable figures in modern European literature, and anyone who believes that the glory days of The [... more]
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The Captive: Part 1
From Amazon.com: Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as a self-conscious aesthete and social climber. The second half he spent in the creation of the mighty roman-fleuve that is Remembrance of Things Past, memorializing his own dandyism [... more]
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The Captive: Part 1
From Amazon.com: Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as a self-conscious aesthete and social climber. The second half he spent in the creation of the mighty roman-fleuve that is Remembrance of Things Past, memorializing his own dandyism [... more]
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Errata: An Examined Life
a profound, passionate and humane thinker: First off, I should mention that I'm new to the work of George Steiner and this review will perhaps be most helpful to other newcomers. Having spent the better part of the past 20 years immersing myself in music [... more]
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Book By Book: Notes on Reading and Life
Literary Self-help manual: Probably the leading book critic in the US, Michael Dirda's long experience with reading is essentially summarised in this little volume. Like most "professional" readers, Dirda began young. Unlike most of us, [... more]
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Maxims
The 'Maxims' as a Classic of 'Crooked Wisdom.': The famous Indian classic, Kautilya's 'Arthasastra,' a treatise which deals with the attainment of worldly ends, distinguishes between two kinds of wisdom - Straight and Crooked. To the former belong (to [... more]
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European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages: (With a ...
A Classic.: This book is a classic. A real monument of culture, produced by this philological mind of the twentieth century. Its pages have consistently revealed the powerful medieval literature, totally breaking the idea of a dead age to literature. His [... more]
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The Captive, Part II
From Amazon.com: Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as a self-conscious aesthete and social climber. The second half he spent in the creation of the mighty roman-fleuve that is Remembrance of Things Past, memorializing his own dandyism [... more]
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