This is my favorite Yehoshua book and one of my all-time favorites.
Yehoshua wrote book in an extremely interesting style that is sophisticated and enThis is my favorite Yehoshua book and one of my all-time favorites.
Yehoshua wrote book in an extremely interesting style that is sophisticated and engaging at the same time.
The story is simple. A man moved to the US years before leaving his family in Israel. He is now back to get a divorce from the wife to be able to remarry.
It is all about the characters. The feelings: the feeling of being trapped. The feeling of panicking for getting older. the feeling of being young and confused. of being sick and afraid. All those feelings jump at you from every page. It is an amazing book. ...more
This is my favorite mishima. The first of the the four books in his cycle. I like the elegance of mishima's storytelling. He is incredibly elegant andThis is my favorite mishima. The first of the the four books in his cycle. I like the elegance of mishima's storytelling. He is incredibly elegant and that is very attractive to me in a book. However, his characters are not as exciting as his style (to me).
I liked this book when I read it but I am kind of over it. ...more
His central point to me is around the impossibility to create real, deep, huThis is my favorite Tanizaki book.
Tanizaki is a master in story telling.
His central point to me is around the impossibility to create real, deep, human connections and be able to establish a channel of communication: you feel that no matter how hard you try to connect to another human being, you are destined to fail.
Although we should know better, we will use tricks and deception and in the end we will have distorted and ruined any chance we had of creating a real and honest relationship...at that point, he goes even deeper. Is it really just communication or it is impossible for us to communicate because objectivity does not exist and reality is flawed by eyes that look at it?
Tanikazi characters always feel old (of advanced age) to me even when they are not based on their age (although this book is about an older couple). Their impossibility and the fact that they are trapped in their behavior and tricks and ideas makes them old....more
I just finished this one. Great story and great characters.
There is one quote in this book that I will keep with me for a long time. It resonates verI just finished this one. Great story and great characters.
There is one quote in this book that I will keep with me for a long time. It resonates very deeply with me. it goes something like: "there are times when you need to climb up. Then you need to find the highest montain and climb it. There are times when you need to climb down. Then you need to fins the deepest well and climb down. There are times when you need to stay still. In those times, the best thing to do is to stay still."...more
This is a fun, fun detective book with a dark side. just a classic. I have read it a few times and I always laugh. An easy , fun read. I just recentlyThis is a fun, fun detective book with a dark side. just a classic. I have read it a few times and I always laugh. An easy , fun read. I just recently moved my office to the building where Sam Spade office was (in the movie) and that prompted me to take the book again in my hands. And, I was laughing again as soon as I started to read......more
This is my favorite Amos Oz book and the first one I read. This is a great book. Amos Oz has an incredible talent to paint simple stories with incrediThis is my favorite Amos Oz book and the first one I read. This is a great book. Amos Oz has an incredible talent to paint simple stories with incredible depth and cut open the life of his characters for us to go deep in their soul. Any Amos Oz (fiction) is interesting for this reason, but Fima is extraordinary. ...more
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