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Advertised as the modern day Odyssey, I did not wait waste my time and I picked up this novel right away, but after reading pages and pages I could not find neither Odysseus, nor the Trojan war. It was only - mentioned in the text. There was Odysseus, there was Penelope, but not much to …
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And thirty five years later, we know how it ended. Or do we? We know how Gilead ended but we are missing what we (or at least I) have been expecting. What exactly happened to June, immediately after the ending of The Handmaid’s Tale. That seems to be the general feeling I had reading this …
Kada se osoba i djelo spajaju na najbolji način, kada se pozitivistički način tumačenja književnog djela pokaže jedini ispravan i moguć, kada se djelo i autor nadopunjuju i prožimlju međusobno neodvojivi, jasno je da je pogledati izvan samog djela, u autora, bio dobar odabir. Točno takav bio je susret s Ljudmilom Ulickom na Festivalu svjetske …
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A dystopian novel, taking place in our possible near(ish) future, describes the life of a Defender. The idea seems interesting, in theory, specially because I always enjoy a good dystopia, but in the end it wasn’t. The pace is very slow, at times boring. The premises of that new society are there, interesting, but that …
When was the last time you looked at a sunset? And what colour was the sky? Did you feel happy nobody told you what to see and what not to look at? Maybe you should… When I opened this book and started reading it I was surprised because nothing could have prepared me for the …
Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls is a true summer read. Starting lightly and frivolously as a story about 1940s wild life in show business in New York city, the life of parties, showgirls, champagne and cocktails, late night fun and free, unrestrained sex that, as you read on, matures into more serious topics such as …
I fell in love reading Miller's Circe a couple months ago, and immediately knew The Song of Achilles had to be next. With such an amazing coincidence my book arrived just before I was about to leave for Greece and I had to take it with me for a better, heightened experience. Such a beautifully …
It is always hard to write and compare novels about World War II because it’s difficult to ascertain how much fiction is too much fiction and how much fiction will not ruin the truthfulness a historical novel needs to have in order to be genuine and believable. After reading testimonies by real Holocaust survivors about …
Scroll down for English Vrlo živo i životno, živahno i iskreno ispričana priča o životu fikcionalne Hitlerove kušačice Rose, opisujući i približujući nam Njemačku pred kraj Drugog svjetskog rata. Hitler trpi poraze u Rusiji i njegova paranoja raste u očekivanju atentata i trovanja. Rosa se kao pripovjedačica ističe izravnošću i iskrenošću, tu nema općih mjesta …
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Ovaj je roman obavezan za svakog ljubitelja Shakespearea i kazališta, napisan Shakespeareovim sredstvima o Shakespeareu. Ovo ne samo da je roman o Shakespeareu, suvremenom životu u zatvoru, o nošenju sa smrću i gubitkom, ovo je ponajviše roman o kazalištu i njegovoj političkoj strukturi, glumcima, redateljima, inovatorima i klasičarima. U pravom šekspirijanskom stilu Margaret Atwood započinje …
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