by Andrea Camilleri
A crime mystery by an Italian author set in Sicily. A quick easy read-I read it during a four hour train journey-that was very enjoyable. A nice light touch in the principal character, Inspector Montalbano, which I like in a crime book. 6/10
Friday, November 30, 2007
Germinal
by Emile Zola
Thirteenth of the Rougon Macquart and probably the most well known.
This was a great read with some of Zola's most memorable crowd scenes as the striking miners protest and rampage. You are drawn in to the terror of group action. The book also portrays the disconnect between the working class and the bourgeoisie that doesn't seem a million miles from the position in the Paris suburbs today. A great book. 9/10
www.emilezola.info
Thirteenth of the Rougon Macquart and probably the most well known.
This was a great read with some of Zola's most memorable crowd scenes as the striking miners protest and rampage. You are drawn in to the terror of group action. The book also portrays the disconnect between the working class and the bourgeoisie that doesn't seem a million miles from the position in the Paris suburbs today. A great book. 9/10
www.emilezola.info
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Hallucinating Foucault
by Patricia Duncker
This is a haunting novel based around a fictional mad French writer obsessed with Foucault and an unnamed Phd student obsessed with the writer. It is all about the relationship between writer and reader but is told in a gripping way that holds your attention even though the conclusion is inevitable. 7/10
This is a haunting novel based around a fictional mad French writer obsessed with Foucault and an unnamed Phd student obsessed with the writer. It is all about the relationship between writer and reader but is told in a gripping way that holds your attention even though the conclusion is inevitable. 7/10
Eugénie
by Desmond Seward
This is a biography of the wife of Napoleon III and the empress of the second empire. It is written from a very supportive view and is very readable.
It does not set out to supply new information but it does give an interesting portrait of second empire life and is a great background to the Rougon Macquart novels of Emile Zola.
A good bibliography as well. 8/10
www.emilezola.info
This is a biography of the wife of Napoleon III and the empress of the second empire. It is written from a very supportive view and is very readable.
It does not set out to supply new information but it does give an interesting portrait of second empire life and is a great background to the Rougon Macquart novels of Emile Zola.
A good bibliography as well. 8/10
www.emilezola.info
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