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On Reading 'Strait Is the Gate,' by André Gide
0. André Gide, the name of an author of French literature I haven't read much of. French literature feels somehow rather distant. I've read a few works by …
2017-03-09
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After Reading 'Convenience Store Woman', written by Sayaka Murata
"Normal people enjoy putting non-normal humans on trial. But if you drive me out, people will judge you all the more. So you have no choice but to keep fee…
2017-01-01
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Review of blueprint (Blue Print)
'Blueprint' calls to mind a positive vision of the future. The fact that she names herself a 'blueprint' instead of using the somewhat 'stiff' term clone s…
2014-09-15
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Isaac Asimov, 'I, Robot'
After rereading the title a few times, the \"I\" here, that is, the 'I,' seems indeed to be Susan, who drives the content. The 'robot' refers to the robots…
2014-09-14
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Do You Like Brahms - Françoise Sagan
As soon as the semester started, Gwang-min saw me beginning to read 'Do You Like Brahms' and made a somewhat disparaging, teasing remark about why Brahms, …
2014-04-03
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'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Ernest Hemingway
There are criteria I use when choosing a book to read, and one of them is whether the book's design is beautiful. Recently a lot of Minumsa's World Literat…
2013-12-04
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'A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Zeit zu leben und Zeit zu sterben)', Erich Maria Remarque
The thought of wanting to write something after watching the film 'The Night Before the Wedding' lingered for a very long time. Well, since I saw the film …
2013-11-27
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Norwegian Wood (Korean title: The Age of Loss) - Haruki Murakami
Although I lumped it into the miscellaneous 800s bundle, I think it's too much of a waste to put this book in this category. It's ambiguous to call it simp…
2013-10-18
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George Bernard Shaw, 'Pygmalion'
Bernard Shaw is very famous as a writer who embodied various 'images of women.' The 'Joan' of Saint Joan was a woman so sacred that her words meant the wil…
2013-09-08
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Goethe, 'Faust' part.1
I first came to know this book in high school. Back then, probably while studying for the 'language section,' I was tackling test papers with 'language rea…
2013-07-13
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Elfriede Jelinek, 'The Piano Teacher' (Die Klavierspielerin)
In all my life, this is the first novel with such a narrative method. It's not that it's good, nor that it's bad, but, hmm.... if I must say, the part I fa…
2013-05-21
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Jane Eyre part.2
In part 1, I started to talk about Mrs. Reed's death but stopped. Mrs. Reed's death signifies a 'settling of accounts' with the memory of the past. For Jan…
2013-05-14