I just finished the graphic novel ‘Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth’ by Chris Ware and the Norwegian children’s novel ‘Pitbull-Terje går amok’ by Endre Lund Eriksen.
Now I’m reading ‘Pitbull-Terje og kampen mot barnevernet’ (Pit-Bull Terje and the Battle against the Child Welfare) by Endre Lund Eriksen, ‘Powers’ by Ursula K. Le Guin and ‘Tehanu’ by Ursula K. Le Guin.
The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
i would dare say that she is becoming my favorite author, although the only book of hers i havn’t read is The Vine of Desire, which my English teacher claims is rubbish, and admittedly the plot totally goes against Sudha’s character (from the prequel, Sister of my Heart)
Non literary: Northrop Frye, Anatomy of Criticism (literary criticism); Erving Goffman, Asylums (sociology); Lúcia Santaella, Teoria Geral dos Signos (“A General Theory of Signs,” semiotics); Andeu Mas–Colell, Microeconomic Theory (science fiction ).
Literary: Italo Calvino, Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore (“If on a winter night a traveler,” fantastic realism, metaliterature); Edgar Alan Poe, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (portuguese translation, romanticism, symbolism, modern short–story). Also skimming through the Pantchatantra (portuguese translation, the original is in Sanscrit); as far as I know, the oldest remaining book of “short stories” or “tales” or whatever—somewhat similar in structure and whatnot to the good old Arabian Nights.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip Dick, the plot even contains a drug that is able to create a solipsistic world exactly like the LD world.
I started The Big Bang by Simon Sing(sp?) on sunday.
I’m still reading The Brothers Karamazov, but only barely… school doesn’t leave much time to really concentrate on it. Speaking of school - we’re reading Macbeth (we will finish it tomorrow) and, for a separate project, I am reading Michaelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, by Ross King.
I was reading Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (and it was really boring) when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was published in french. Now I just finished Harry Potter (it was great ) and I’ll continue to read the last pages of this Gogol’s most uninteresting book.
Same thoughts about Coelho here. The story of the Alchemist is taken from another book (it was just a short tale and Coelho developped it) but I don’t remember where I read it first.
Ahhhh, I’ll take your word for it. Sometimes my literary ignorance astounds me.
Can you recommend me something (obviously non-posuerISH) that’s related to the theme of the Alchemist? Regardless of the author’s insecurities, I still enjoyed the book.