Beers & Books XXXII – Siegfried Lenz

The German Lesson
was one of his most remarkable novels.

 Siegfried Lenz (17 March 1926 – 7 October 2014)

Saturday Night Music

Elīna Garanča * 16 September 1976

On the Road

Singing in the rain

 

Le Yeux Noirs

 

Pomplamoose

Beers & Books XXXI

Himmerlandsgeschichten
A rediscovery, published this year.
Not in English, though.

 
Johannes V. Jensen (20. January 1873 – 25 November 1950)

Balcony view

One leaf left

Beers & Books XXX

Rituals

Cees Nooteboom *31 July 1933

Third anniversary

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017)

Beers & Books XXIX

Voltaire – Frederick II
Correspondence

Voltaire (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778)

Friedrich II ("the Great") 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786)

Balcony View

Autumn leaves

 

Writers: José Saramago

Each book a juwel.
Look and see.
All the Names
Blindness
Hellebarden (fragment)
Seeing
The Cave

 José Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010

Balcony View

Twilight.

 

Beers & Books XXVIII

The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (25 September 1964 – 19 June 2020)