‘Lost eternally in the forest, is a musk, in search of the sweet scent of life.’ The timeless, tormenting, beautiful anxiety the musk deer suffers from is an elegant analogy for Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, bellied beneath the 21st-century commoner, lost in the dense absurdity …
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Cry, the Beloved Country Book Review: a Book about the Heart of a Truth
It is in my ferocious appetite for stories documenting the perils of separating people from the notion of a nation that I am drawn to books addressing this displacement. It is also in my erratic instinct that I naively look up to a narrative built …
Things Fall Apart Book Review-About Man and Tribe
I remember picking up Things Fall Apart for its title. I knew I was going to read about the eventual collapse of someone’s world. What I didn’t imagine was that it would be of a man from land, language, culture so distinctively different from the …
The Remains of the Day Book Review-Kazuo Ishiguro Explores Dignity as a Principle
The Remains of the Day book review tries to understand the meaning of a life invested heavily in principles. Kazuo Ishiguro through this simple, eloquently told, well-crafted novel extends insights into the heart of the principle of dignity while ascertaining its worth. The Remains of …
What Makes The Metamorphosis by Kafka Popular
To review The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is to peep into a dark world where human subconsciousness manifests itself as a being. In The Metamorphosis, that being is an ugly vermin. Through a bizarre-dreamlike, heartbreaking story of Gregor Samsa, Kafka conjures the real horrors of …