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Collected Stories – Franz Kafka
Collected Stories – Franz Kafka Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 8 October 2001 It has become customary for a current translator to preface his production with a little critique of his predecessors, especiall...
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The Castle – Franz Kafka
The Castle – Franz Kafka – 1926 Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 2 September 2001 Somebody told me that I use to refer to Kafka in almost every other review. How is it, that Kafka has become so perva...
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The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Trial – Franz Kafka – 1925 Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 2 September 2001 Not until 1982 did I really know the meaning of the term “kafkaesque.” The revelation hit me when I found myself trapp...
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I Served the King of England – Bohumil Hrabal
I Served the King of England – Bohumil Hrabal – 1971 Reviewed by: J. Kotrie Date: 9 May 2004 “And so I learned that money could not only buy you a beautiful girl, money could buy you poetry too.&#...
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The Absolute at Large – Karel Čapek
The Absolute at Large – Karel Čapek – 1922 Reviewed by: Luís Silva Date: 26 May 2006 Although it is, undoubtedly, a great criticism of people’s innate intolerance towards their fellow men, I couldnR...
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Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy – 1877 Reviewed by: James F. Welch Date: 20 February 2003 Really, this is a 10-star book. Tolstoy makes one feel as though they are really in the scene he describes. He is one of...
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Cancer Ward – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Cancer Ward – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn – 1968 Reviewed by: Woo Date: 9 August 2001 It is definitely one of the best books I’ve ever read. It doesn’t only deal with life and death, but also with th...
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The First Circle – Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn – 1968 Reviewed by: D.W. Cymbalisty This amazing story spans only a few days in the lives of several people that have been unduly imprisoned by Joseph Stalin’s secret ...
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One Day in the Live of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Reviewed by: Dave Cymbalisty Date: 13 November 2001 THEME: Personal struggle for survival in a Stalinist concentration camp. A more literal translation of the title from the Russian would be “The Day Of Ivan ...
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And Quiet Flows the Don – Mikhail Sholokhov
And Quiet Flows the Don – Mikhail Sholokhov – 1928 Reviewed by: Sabyasachi Hazarika Date: 1 December 2001 It is a great book. A great anti-war document. Sholohkov shows the ravages of war on the soldiers ...
