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Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, or rather he had tried to...more

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Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university care...more

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Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion and lies, if not a...more

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He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol ...more

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Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immi...more

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A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.

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I didn't hit her, man, what happened was that Maria was obsessed with the Marquis de Sade and wanted to try the spanking thing," said Luscious Skin. "...more