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JakobVirgil  ·  4240 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are some *personal* essential readings?

José Saramago - The Tale of the Unknown Island Cormac Mccarthy - The Road

two book about love,with idiosyncratic punctuation, that could not be more different.





phree  ·  4240 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Interesting, I didn't know that short story by Saramago had been translated to English. Good stuff.

JakobVirgil  ·  4238 days ago  ·  link  ·  

longish short story it was published as a really short novel. Do you read Portuguese ?

phree  ·  4237 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Interesting, I didn't know that it was published as a novel. Yeah, I'm actually about to start my PhD in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Lit in the fall and hopefully successfully defending my MA thesis in, oh god, 5 days! :)

JakobVirgil  ·  4237 days ago  ·  link  ·  

fantastic