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“The title is deceptive and sounds like something heavy, something strictly encyclopaedic, when really the book is so far from being heavy it’s almost weightless. The mixture is what really appealed to me about the book: the idea that one can talk about anything and everything, even if, in the end, one leaves almost everything out.” Read more...
“Cuando lo leí me descubrió un tipo de estructura muy libre que había visto o intuido en otros libros, pero que en Savinio se me presentó con un potencial creativo inmenso: improvisaciones casi jazzísticas…” Read more...
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
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The Liars’ Club
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Reading Chekhov
by Janet Malcolm -
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed -
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X and assisted by Alex Haley, Laurence Fishburne (narrator)
