In some reviews of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, the upbringing of the hero, Neva, has been interpreted as either heroic and poetic positive eulogizing, or as comic banter and irony. Aiming at these...

In Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun, the many problems caused by artificial intelligence and gene editing technology reflect the drawbacks of instrumental rationality and technology worship. From the perspective of robots, the author...

With enough doubts, enough time, enough patience, and enough persistence, I spent a week reading the Long Farewell. On the afternoon when I finished reading it, the sun was fine and the wind was...

On weekend nights, thick curtains cut off the cold and dark outside, leaving the house warm and bright. A soft light falls on the table where the first of Fifty Great Short Stories is...

If there is anything that strikes me about this novel, it is probably the sadness, intoxication and tearing that permeates the lines. It is inexplicably painful, but willingly indulges in this pain. When Duras...

Julien is smart, beautiful, talented, ambitious, brave and honest. He was born into a lower class family without a mother, the son of a carpenter. Julien grew up lacking the warmth of a family...

“La ciudad y los perros” is an early work of Llosa. When he began to write this book, Llosa was still a young man in his twenties, but at that age, he had the...

In 1912, at the age of 29, Kafka wrote his favorite work, Das Urteil, for eight hours straight on a late night in September. He wrote in his diary: “My legs are so stiff...