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
Étiquette : Death in Venice
“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
Jacques Desrosiers
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