Narcissus and Goldmund is considered Hermann Hesse's literary triumph. The main theme of the book is the wanderer's struggle to find himself.
Goldmund, a young man, is filled with the desire to experience everything, learn about life and nature in his own hands-on way. With his friend's support, he leaves his monastery and wanders around the countryside, setting the scene for a story that contrasts the artist with the thinker.
Solaris (1961) ★★★★
Solaris, by Stanisław Lem, is a Polish science fiction novel about the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human and non-human species. Solaris is pervaded by a powerful, poetic sense of the physical remoteness of outer space. The sense of loneliness that this engenders is among Lem’s philosophic explorations of man’s anthropomorphic limitations.
Cien años de soledad (1967) ★★★★
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, is the multi-generational story of the Buendía Family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia. The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important, representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s.
A dominant theme in One Hundred Years of Solitude is the inevitable and inescapable repetition of history in Macondo. The protagonists are controlled by their pasts and the complexity of time. The fate of Macondo is both doomed and predetermined from its very existence.
Running with Scissors (2002) ★★★★
Running with Scissors is a 2002 memoir by American writer Augusten Burroughs. The book tells the story of Burroughs's bizarre childhood life.
The New York Trilogy (1985-86) ★★★
The New York Trilogy is a series of novels by Paul Auster. Originally published sequentially as City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room, it has since been collected into a single volume.
The New York Trilogy is a particular form of postmodern detective fiction which still uses well-known elements of the detective novel but also creates a new form that links the traditional features of the genre with the experimental, metafictional and ironic features of postmodernism.
Chump Change ★★
A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Bruno heads back to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion, where the tension and stress force him to dull the pain the only way he knows how — with alcohol. And when he wakes up naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet, Bruno realizes the trip has just begun.
The book expresses the bewilderment of its hero and its author with rawness, crudeness, and shock, and also serves as a very beautiful and touching homage to Fante's famous father John Fante.
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