My Literary Ramblings - Rakesh

Books I’ve read in January-: 1. Chomana Dudi ( A well known classic work in Kannada, portraying the life of a poor peasant in an obscure Indian Village by the legendary K.Shivaram Karanth) 2.Balzac�...

7 Years Ago

Reading Proust Day 27

On page 39. I kept reading, rereading, making notes (almost in a meditative trance) . This is not an easy book. You have to visualize, make connections and get the bigger picture. I once reached pa…...

7 Years Ago

The Confusions of Young Torless- Robert Musil

Recently I finished ‘The confusions of Young Torless’. This is an early masterpiece of Robert Musil, whose fame rests on his epic work- The man without qualities. I can’t say it was an easy read...

7 Years Ago

Books I’ve read in 2018

Classics-: 1. The fall- Albert Camus 2. The Stranger – Camus 3. Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad 4. The confusions of Young Torless- Robert Musil 5. Utopia –Sir Thomas More 6. Slaughterhouse five-...

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My reading plan for 2019

Fiction 1. in search of lost time- Marcel Proust (I’m currently reading by way of swans. This is my biggest project) Total books-: 7 2. The age of reason- Jean Paul Sartre 3. To the lighthouse- Vir�...

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Journey to the end of the night- Louis Ferdinand Celine

Finished Celine’s Journey to the End of the night yesterday. This novel is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. It took me 13 long days to finish it. This one is obvio�...

7 Years Ago

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