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Post by terefere on Jul 13, 2014 15:45:05 GMT -5
Has just finished reading "The Porcupine" - with a surprisingly evocative atmosphere of the time, to the extent that it was impossible to read the novel in one go. That's a compliment to the author, besides some passages from the perspective of time past are simply prophetic. Chapeau bas!
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Post by Layla on Dec 17, 2014 3:53:31 GMT -5
I wonder WHO in the UK decided to publish such a small novella or a long 'short-story'?!! I guess that the original idead was 'served' to the author,J.B, by the Bulgarian woman to whom the book was dedicated to,since the book was originally published in Bulgarian. Is it a historical novella? NO!! Is it a political novella? They describe it as such,but it's not for ME! Why? Once nore Julian Barnes tried to "imitate" George ORWELL, Arthur KOESTLER and T.S.ELIOT, without SUCCESS!! The prose was more interesting than the dialogues,but the plot was very simple and shallow. 'The Porcupine' is a sharp OBSERVATION of a political situation,but lacks the ORIGINALITY and the DEPTH of a political thinker... JB probably impressed the Bulgarian people but NOT their neighbors!!Franklin Roosevelt said "that the only thing we have to Fear is FEAR itself". WE ARE NOT AFRAID!! socialistreview.org.uk/397/how-can-left-topple-bosses-europe
And here is anoher interesting view by PAUL KRUGMAN:economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2014/12/paul-krugman-being-bad-europeans.html
SO my favourite Professor in Arms, TERRY EAGLETON, JAMES FENTON and TIMOTHY GARTON ASH www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxfZtNEG1xU |
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Post by Valérie Trierweiler on Dec 23, 2014 7:10:59 GMT -5
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Post by Caitlin McInerney on Jan 9, 2015 2:48:44 GMT -5
- Salut. What are you having? - Fourteen beers is bad, fourteen beers plus a pint of vodka is better. Clearly, Marx was right: 500 ml makes for an ideal demonstration that, after a point, quantity transforms quality. The souses had Marx in their soul, whether they know it or not. That's why discussions in the pubs of Romania so closely resemble those in Dostoevsky's "The Possessed," and for the same reason true drunkards are anti communist-- any socialist atheist who drinks with purpose becomes, after a certain threshold, a mystic anarchist. When you find the guts to stop drinking, it's over. You've reached the end, the landmark where quantity can no longer transform quality. Your are already, in all likelihood, a perfect mystic with the appropriate set of regrets at hand. It's bad not to have the guts. And much better, after the first shot of vodka . - Bine. Finish your drink and we need to go. Our American friends,Philip and Elizabeth, wait at the Vanishing point that whistles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=__nTeZrEtvw |
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