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This Mournable Body is a powerful, gut-wrenching novel, a novel that leaves you with a feeling of uneasiness, a feeling of nausea, a queasiness deep inside. It is a novel about a lost woman, a woman torn between her family legacy and history, her own past, the past of her country, her own expectations and …
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Is it at all possible to say that real life is too tragic? That anything in real life can be too tragic? That there can be too much tragedy? Not at all, because life is too often too tragic. However, fiction can be too tragic because fiction (although it can be based on real life …
Scroll down for English Ferrante počinje uobičajeno žestoko, udarcem šake u glavu, direktno, beskompromisno uvodi nas u vrtlog svog pripovijedanja. Tijekom romana stalno se isprepliću i smjenjuju razni trenutni pokretači radnje: ljepota, obiteljska sličnost, laži, tajne, misteriozna teta Vittoria, narukvica, idealni Roberto. Cijeli roman vrtlog je zbivanja i nadasve vrtlog emocija koji povremeno prerasta u uragan. …
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Rainy, dark, nature, summer surroundings for intertwined stories that altogether make a disturbing whole. These are the stories of twelve residents of a small lakeside cottage holiday settlement that intermingle, correspond to each other and continue each other. A holiday “community” made of strangers that are uninterested in each other, unconnected and that have scarcely …
Što nam je sudbina? Što je sudbina svakog pojedinačnog čovjeka i možemo li utjecati na nju? Određuje li svaki naš potez budućnost direktno ili ju određuje nešto drugo, izvanjsko, nešto više ili možda nešto niže? Kada bismo promijenili „loš kraj“ što bi se tada dogodilo? Loš kraj života, loš kraj priče. Bi li onda život …
Why do people choose to write, discuss, investigate, study historical periods, times and places unconnected to themselves and to their own heritage, history, country and continent they come from? Why would an Italian have to be annoyed with an American writing about Mussolini decades after World War II? Actually, there shouldn’t be a reason. I, …
What is the difference between the pornographic and the erotic? It is a question to ponder on, but after reading this novel the answer is obvious: art. Every world that comes out of Greenwell is indeed that: art. This novel consists of three parts and nine stories, it could be considered as a short story …
Frances je neobična, neuobičajena djevojka, nalazi se u stalnoj nelagodi sa samom sobom i nesigurna u to kakva je ona – zapravo. Ona klizi kroz sve svoje odnose, kroz odluke koje mora donijeti u životu, kroz odluke o vlastitom obrazovanju, poslu, novcu, ne odlučuje samo ide dalje. Studira, pjesniknja je i konstantno definira samu sebe …
Frances is awkward, unusual, unsure of herself and of her character. She glides through her relationships with people, decisions in life, education, work, money. She is a university student, a poet and she defines herself by her constant relationship with her high school friend and former girlfriend Bobbi. Apparently “normal” and “usual”, she hides her …
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Do you wish to read a novel about strong independent women? This could be the novel for you. How about a novel about friendship between women? Or a novel about the love of books and reading? A novel filled with beautiful nature surroundings, harsh and stunning Kentucky mountains? This novel MIGHT fit perfectly under all …
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