Category Archives: Books and Literature
Found: A 160-year-old Book in a Local Coffee Shop
Near Stockholm’s elegant main library, I wandered into a coffee shop. The chain which has such shops all over town has a distinctive décor in that the walls, from tabletop level to the tall ceiling, have bookshelves filled with very … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Literature, Literary fiction, Literature, satire
Tagged Brobdingnag, Houyhnhnms, Laputa, Lilliput
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Like a Visit with an Old Friend
This is the phrase that leaped to mind, unbidden, as I read the first few pages of the “Preface” to Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf. The familiarity of the words (for I have read them at least thrice), their poetical presentation (even … Continue reading
The Pavellas Perspective 