EU Fiction: 1950-2022

Descripció
In honor of Europe Day, which occurred on May 9th, our May List of the Month is devoted to contemporary EU fiction, written by authors from EU member states, and published subsequent to 1950. Authors must come from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. Please only downvote titles that do not fit the geographic and temporal parameters of the list.
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Perfil de paradoxosalpha
1
Si una nit d'hivern un viatger
de Italo Calvino
12,512 membres
257 ressenyes
4.1
Classificació global 4
8 Members
anglemark, paradoxosalpha, soffitta1, ahef1963, Daedalus., steller0707, CharlesTheB, RODNEYP
Explicacions
paradoxosalpha: All writers must be readers, and Calvino was a magician, uniting That and This in his conjuration.
2
La història interminable
de Michael Ende
12,073 membres
226 ressenyes
4.1
Classificació global 10
6 Members
Aquila, paradoxosalpha, merrystar, Heather39, janflora, aspirit
Explicacions
paradoxosalpha: There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.
aspirit: German author. Published 1979.
3
El Club Dumas
de Arturo Pérez-Reverte
6,226 membres
158 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Classificació global 46
2 Members
paradoxosalpha, RODNEYP
Explicacions
paradoxosalpha: The phenomena of textual obsession, multiple authorship, and criminal intrigue tie the literary and occult halves of the story into a braided whole.
4
L'illa del dia abans
de Umberto Eco
7,153 membres
67 ressenyes
½ 3.3
Classificació global 103
Member
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Explicacions
paradoxosalpha: The insular novel is nearly solipsistic in the extent to which characters other than the protagonist are practically reduced to figments of his imagination.
5
Shroud
de John Banville
703 membres
16 ressenyes
½ 3.4
Classificació global 130
Member
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Explicacions
paradoxosalpha: Reveals a startling depth in the anamnesia of personal secrets, and ultimately, an awareness that individuals are separated from each other by a chasm as deep as death--a divide that love simply makes visible.