L’Aleph - a collection of Stories by Jorge Luis Borges. Started reading it today for the second time. Read from it today:
*) Deutsches Requiem: a former Nazi officer who writes about his life and thoughts the night before his execution.
*) Averroes’ Quest: Averroes, trying to write a commentary of the works of Aristotle, fails to grasp the meaning of two words: tragoedia and comoedia, but just then, a conversation with a traveller reveals it to him.
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka. A dog writing about his life, the institution of dogdom and its laws, and how he doesn’t quite belong in there.
The newspaper published a pic of him, and commented about what a great writer and a role model for humankind he was. I was so shocked I couldn’t help but read again everything I had from him, and now I couldn’t resist buying On the Road (last time I read in Portuguese, borrowed from a friend).
Boy, he’s even influencing my dreams! :shock: Reading his work is cathartical, refreshing, renewing.
I’m currently actually reading Clive Barker’s Book Of Blood 2, but I can’t seem to find the time now that school has started. I also have problems with enjoying dreams a lot in that time.
It’s a philosophical piece that explores perception and imagination, and pretty much everything else that has to do with the conscious and subconscious mind
Still reading Albert Camus’ The Fall: a man’s monologue about how once he was in grace and then his eventual fall from it.
Also started reading Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche. The subtitle is: “How to philosophize with a hammer”. So yes, basically this book is a declaration of philosophical war against lots of things…
I’m reading “Sophie’s World” at the moment. I’ve tried reading the book before but never finished it because I found it a little too childish… but now I have to read it for my philosophy class, so I’m reading that. It’s actually not as bad as I first thought it would be.
About to start ‘Turn Of The Screw’, although my teacher gave the whole book away to me this morning If I enjoy this, I’ll pick it as one of my books for my study this year.