July 2010
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Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
The impotent ‘Lost Generation’ narrator in Hemingway’s first novel gets drunk in Paris, goes fishing and watches his friends and the bulls fight in Spain. It’s slightly disorientating, because the characters drink all day long and sleep very little, so often moments you assumed were taking place in the evening, it turns out, actually began at dawn.
Brett, the...
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A genuine story unreels in a contradictory manner; the individual scenes retain...
– Bertolt Brecht
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Is what we have in common precisely what is given to each of us as something...
– Italo Calvino - Mr Palomar