That said, the recent list of
the 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008 strikes me as unbelievably provincial, and well, just plain bad.
Laid-back and casually attired, the 37-year-old writer first made his mark with "Una noche con Sabrina Love" (A Night With Sabrina Love), the cyber-picaresque tale of a spirited 18-year-old boy whose fantasies get upended by fact after winning a night with the porn star of his dreams.
Blackwell bookshop announced yesterday that it is to install an "Espresso Book Machine" that will allow customers to print out a novel in just seven minutes.
His latest,
Born Yesterday, is an attempt to publish a novel featuring a backdrop of topical events. Covering England in 2007, the year of the summer floods, Gordon Brown succeeding Tony Blair and the disappearance of Madeleine Mcann, Burn has attempted to produce a work that lives and breathes a recognisable yet complex and uncertain climate.
In 1917 Franz Kafka went to Zürau in Czech Republic
because of health problems. It was a small village placed between mountains, meadows and groves. The life there had been concentrated on growing hop-plant and the inhabitants there were mostly animals rather than humans. On the spot Kafka realized that he was caught in small zoo lead under different and new rules.
Kafka took up residence under his sister`s roof near the market place by the church. He had been living there on his own and how he wanted for eight months. Can man find better place to write aphorisms? Doubtfully.
One of his pearls sounds like this: “Crows claim that already one of them is enough to conquer the sky. Couldn`t disagree more even though it doesn`t turn towards the sky because the sky means also impossibility of crows.”
Or one more: “In the battle between you and the world – second the world”.
Summarized by Fushinha
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