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From the Bookshelf: Malcolm Cowley: The View from 80

As we are preparing to leave Budapest, Hungary for New Orleans, USA, there are hundreds of books to pack away, give away, even sell. One of the books that I picked out of the huge pile was written by Malcolm Cowley, and in fact it is rather a booklet on what being 80 years old […]

June 5th, 2007 | Posted in Bookshelf, Personal | No Comments

From the bookshelf: Chaim Potok The Chosen

Yesterday I went to the bookshop to have a coffee, learn some Spanish and German, and to have a look at what books I would like to read (but will have little time to actually go through them). Instead, I picked up Potok’s The Chosen and stayed in the shop glued to the armchair for […]

May 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Bookshelf | No Comments