“But who is Greg? A high school boy, second of three brothers, cunning, lazy, poor student and athlete, imaginative, self-satisfied and ignored at school despite his failed attempts to be "cool" (52nd out of 53 on the popularity scale ). And all, Greg thinks, because of the lousy idea of putting together
“Before the end, the author of Incendios discovers that investigating our parents always leads us into strange territory for two reasons: it makes us relate to another era and makes us see as strangers people we thought we knew everything about and who are difficult to accept in a role other than that of adults
“Although it may seem incredible, there was a time when not all men dressed in a clonic way nor did magazines offer interviews with the famous on duty as the main course. One of those men, who also wrote in those magazines, continues to walk the streets of New York today with an original and tailor-made suit.
"But the core of Judith Butler's theoretical program lies in this idea: 'We judge a world we refuse to know, and our judgment becomes a means of refusing to know this world.' This node can only be broken by curiosity and knowledge, but this means breaking down the frames that
“There are few worlds in English-language fiction as vast, rich and diverse as Doctorow's. This year his first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, turns half a century old; in this time Doctorow has published thirteen fiction books, a play and two compilations of essays, and the result can be very
“Fortunately for literature, that aversion to everything that distorts the brain and transforms behavior has not prevented the sober Ellroy from creating a devastating prose and permanently related to vertigo, extracting terrifying realism from arguments, feelings and violence that border on delirium , brilliantly portray the dark face of his country,
“The immense literary talent of Jhumpa Lahiri (London, 1967) is based on the fact that he is able to tell the same story over and over again, stories of Indian immigrants on the East Coast of the United States, and that it is always different. Critics have compared her to a miniaturist for her ability to accurately describe
“Just as Joyce Carol Oates or Lorrie Moore always choose the hidden side of the everyday moon, Tyler prefers the visible side, the one closest to the reader. He then plays to sharpen it with the emotional pencil sharpener that he masters best, free indirect style (they tell us what Liam thinks, Liam tells us what he thinks), with impeccable dialogue
“The bilingual edition of A worldly country, two years after its appearance as A worldly country, silences all reservations about the hypothetical decadence of this octogenarian, who questions in his work the securities sanctioned by custom. There is no loss in the ambition of the effort or any symptom of aesthetic decline. The poems,