Beers & Books (408) – Paul Lynch: The Prophet Song

The Prophet Song

Paul Lynch *1977

Beers & Books (407) – Sylvia Plath: Love Poems

Love Poems

Sylvia Plath (27 October 1932 – 11 February 1963) 

Beers & Books (406) – Stolen Years

Stolen Years

Paul Hill see The Guildford Four

Beers & Books (405) – Máirtín O'Cadhain: The Key

Why would people call this book kafkaesque?
It's an excellent Ó Cadhain.

Máirtín ò Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)

Beers & Books (404) – Miller: Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller (17 October 1915 – 10 February 2005)

Beers & Books (403) – Katherine Mansfield

The Collected Stories

Katherine Mansfield (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923)

Beers & Books (402) – Three more books fitting the beer

So that I don't get bored, my library has been updated on the occasion of my attempt to orbit the sun one more time, starting today.  

Two novels
and
an anthology with 28 stories

And as an encore:
three books that I had only wished for Christmas ;-)

Beers & Books (400) – Fitzgerald: Master Stories

Master Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald (24 September 1896 – 21 December 1940)

Beers & Books (399): Im Dezember der Wind

December Breeze / En diciembre llegan las brisas

Marvel Moreno (23 September 1939 – 5 June 1995)

Beers & Books (397) – Caspar David Friedrich

Art as the centre of the world
Selected letters and writings

Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840)

Beers & Books (396) – Goethe 275

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832)

When I try to imagine the time of the original creation of those 20,000 pages of my thin-print complete edition, I suddenly think of some Flemish painters. Should be possible that Privy Councillor Goethe, who today would celebrate his 275th birthday, had some industrious penmen write for him? ;-)
The following may seem casual, but seriously:
The man spends 25 years of his life as political advisor, minister, theater director, “rides” in times of small statehood for one and a half years by horse-drawn stage coach to and through “Bella Italia”, and – not to forget the one or other amorous adventure that also takes up this and that hour – finds time by candlelight with quill and inkwell to write such an enormous oeuvre?
Chapeau!
Happy birthday, Wolfi! ;-)

Coffee time with Dylan Thomas

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog

Dylan Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953)

Beers & Books (395) – José Carrasco

Chile, my martyred land

José Carrasco (24 August 1943 – 8 September 1986)

Beers & Books (394) – Tarjej Vasaas: Das Eisschloss

The Ice Palace

Tarjei Vasaas (20 August 1897 – 15 March 1970)

Coffee time with Seamus Heaney

The Redress of Poetry

 
Seamus Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013)

Beers & Books (393) – Henry James: Daisy Miller

Daisy Miller
& Other Stories

Henry James (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916)

Beers & Books (392) – Time Machine and other works

The Time Machine

 H. G. Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)

Beers & Books (391): Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton (24 January 1862 – 11 August 1937)

Coffeetime with young García Márquez

The "Giraffe aus Barranquilla"
comprises 82 journalistic works by García Márquez
written between 1948 and 1952.
"La Girafa" was the title of a column
that the then 22-year-old regularly wrote
for the Colombian daily newspaper "El Heraldo".
Many of the short glosses and literary sketches,
in which he processed everyday experiences,
paved the way for his later work.

Gabriel García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014)

Beers & Books (390) – Das Geheimnis der Pineta

"Enigma in luogo di mare"
A fine read, the more while enjoying holiday in Italy. ;-)

Carlo Fruttero (19 September 1926 – 15 January 2012)

Franco Luccentini (24 December 1920 – 5 August 2002)

Fruttero & Luccentini