‘Lost eternally in the forest is a musk deer 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 …
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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 …