BooksWe love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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"If this is a man/ the truce" is truly stunningin every sense.
There's been several biographies of Levi attempted & they're all pretty dire & best avoided. I guess (like Borges) writers that draw on their own lives so much for their fictions aren't good biographal subjects
How about Aaron Appelfeld? From memory, I can't remember the title of the book.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 23:29,
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The novelBadenheim 1939, yes. And of Modern fiction Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces is strongly recommended. Not without problems but still a brave attempt which doesn't just co-opt the material
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Fugitive Pieces I tried a decade+ ago.On the recommendation of my old boss, who's ridiculously well read (& Jewish, with many stories of his relatives' travails during the war). I had real trouble with it. I can't remember why; I'll give it another go.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 0:02,
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