Welcome back to the Monthly Reviews series, where I chronologically list last month’s reads, along with a short reflexion and opinion regarding each book. Here’s what I read in January:
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Movie Moments: ‚The Irishman‘
As promised, a handful of movie posts are coming your way. Next in line is Scorsese’s The Irishman (2019), a masterpiece giving viewers excellently executed scenes between brilliant actors. I heard you paint houses. Yes. Yes I do. I also… Weiterlesen ›
Movie Moments: ‚Tolkien‘
Although I am a bookworm through and through, I truly enjoy watching a great movie. With Oscar season fast approaching its climax, the time of consuming large quantities of great movies – and consequently writing more movie reviews to open… Weiterlesen ›
Literary Escapades. Best of 2019
2019 was quite the satisfying reading year. I had the pleasure to experience a good mixture of classics and contemporaries, European and World literature, short and sweet and long and complex reads. Here are my best reads from 2019 in… Weiterlesen ›
Literary Escapades, 12/19: December Reviews
Welcome back to the Monthly Reviews series, where I chronologically list last month’s reads, along with a short reflexion and opinion regarding each book. Here’s what I read in December:
The Illusory Worth of Normalcy. Karl Ove Knausgård: ‚My Struggle 2. A Man in Love‘
Norwegian Author Karl Ove Knausgårds six book autobiography My Struggle (Min Kamp) is an extraordinary book series I have been fascinated with for a few years. As I have reached the last chapter, it is now time to digest and… Weiterlesen ›
Die gefährliche Nostalgie geträumter Kindheiten: Karl Ove Knausgårds ‚Sterben‘ und Thomas Bernhards ‚Auslöschung‘
Die sechsteilige Autobiografie Min Kamp von Karl Ove Knausgård löste nach seiner Ersterscheinung in 2009 einiges an Unruhe in Norwegen aus. Obwohl es Knausgård – zumindest ist dies die Behauptung des Protagonisten – primär darum geht, eine echte und authentische Geschichte… Weiterlesen ›
Quote Digest, Vol. 5: Mario Vargas Llosa
Welcome back to Quote Digest, where I take apart and reflect on my favourite quotes. Today’s quote comes from Nobel Prize winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936) and his novel Death in the Andes (Lituma en los Andes,… Weiterlesen ›
Von Clowns und Serienmördern. Heinrich Böll, Heinz Strunk und die Tragikomik des Außenseiters
Romanprotagonisten, als deren herrschendes Charaktermerkmal die moralische Ambivalenz hervorzuheben ist, lösen öfters polarisierende Reaktionen im Leser aus. Täter können Helden sein, aus Helden können Täter werden, und Hauptsächliches kann meistens als Menschliches rationalisiert und erklärt werden. Weniger wichtig als das… Weiterlesen ›
Literary Escapades, 11/19: November Reviews
Welcome back to the Monthly Reviews series, where I chronologically list last month’s reads, along with a short reflexion and opinion regarding each book. Here’s what I read in November:
The Dangers of Nostalgia. Karl Ove Knausgård: ‚My Struggle 1. A Death in the Family‘
Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård’s book series My Struggle is a massive autobiography, an emotional and critical commentary on cultural, political and sociological aspects of Norwegian society – but more than that, it is the story of a seemingly inconspicuous… Weiterlesen ›
Illusionen der Freiheit. Leïla Slimani, Elfriede Jelinek und ihre wahre Perversion
Willkommen bei meiner ersten deutschsprachigen Essayreihe. In den Beiträgen dieser Reihe wird ein Vergleich zwischen neueren und älteren Romanen hergestellt, um darauf basierend die Hauptthematiken und ihre Substanz für die literarische und kulturelle Gegenwart zu untersuchen. Eure Gedanken zu den… Weiterlesen ›
Movie Moments: ‚Joker‘
There have been several distinguished portrayals in movies about the villainous antagonist who lives to make Batman’s life a pit of chaos and misery. However, this one does not even mention Batman and is void of large-scale action scenes altogether…. Weiterlesen ›
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