Note that the original French version of this article was published four years ago. The End is the sixth and final volume of Knausgaard’s monumental novel cycle, My Struggle. Written at breakneck speed between winter 2008 and autumn 2011, the complete 3,700-page work chronicles forty years of the author’s life in seemingly chaotic detail. Despite… Lire la suite “The End” by Karl Ove Knausgaard
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“German Autumn” by Stig Dagerman
You need a strong stomach to get through German Autumn by Stig Dagerman (1923-1954), the Swedish writer best known for Our Need for Consolation Is Insatiable, a short, moving monologue he wrote six years later. In it, Dagerman dismisses, one after the other, all the consolations offered to our loneliness and difficulty of living, which… Lire la suite “German Autumn” by Stig Dagerman
“The Magician” by Colm Tóibín
The magician is Thomas Mann, nicknamed by his children for his magic tricks. His magic also worked when, at the age of 25, he brought four generations of his family to life in The Buddenbrooks, or when he sublimated the mountain where he had gone to visit his wife, who was undergoing treatment at a… Lire la suite “The Magician” by Colm Tóibín
Tonio Kröger with Rainer Maria Rilke
This short novel is wonderful. It has some points in common, but only a few, with Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. Both cultivate solitude, accepted as a sacred duty or as a curse, the difficulty of being like normal people who live their lives to the fullest, and the distrust of false literature (in… Lire la suite Tonio Kröger with Rainer Maria Rilke
Jacques Desrosiers
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