A Raw Youth
A strange book about a boy and his father: This was the first of the books by Dostoyevsky that I ever read and I was captivated by it. I can't say that it makes the most sense and that everything gets tied up in the end (some parts don't seem to have [... more]
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The Lemon
A Bowles/Mrabet Classic: Paul Bowles discovered Mrabet when the latter was a young man living in Tangiers and the former was already an accomplished musician and writer. The elder Bowles took Mrabet under his wing and translated/edited several of his [... more]
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Reading Dostoevsky
Good, but it left a bit to be desired: Terras' Reading Dostoevsky consists of seven essays dealing with Dostoevsky's work and an appendix about Dostoevsky in English translation. The first essay is about Dostoevsky's work prior to his 1849 arrest for [... more]
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