The original Italian title of Claudia Durastanti’s novel is a lot less ingenious than its English one, but much more in keeping with the intriguing text therein. The title La str
If there is such a thing as a ‘canon’ of European literature in English, then Gerard Reve’s name is not to be found in it. Tolstoy, Dante, Cervantes and the other heavyweight
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Real life isn’t as static and as matter of fact as we might think. We simply limit the vocabulary about our lives, telling ourselves only one or two stories about who we are: We
First published in 1992, Harry Mulisch’s The Discovery of Heaven received its English translation in 1998, and was reissued in 2011. Widely regarded as Mulisch’s masterpiece (a
Literature is a site of dreams. It’s also where dreams dissolve, where the writer imagines reality for what it really is. Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, two of the greatest gifts
