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Eine Collage aus - vor allem - Effi Briest und anderen Werken aus der Fontane-Zeit. Der Ausgangspunkt ist vielleicht: Was, wenn der Chinese ein Walache gewesen wäre? Laut Nachwort stammt wirklich das meiste nicht vom Autor, der nur einige verbindende Passagen geschrieben haben will; von Effi habe ich viel wiedererkannt.
Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do …
In the Kingdom of Aran, in the Caucasus Mountains in 950 A.D., two adventurers wander the region, plying their trade …
Margit Dirscherl, Laura Schütz: Schachnovelle (German language, 2019, Königshausen & Neumann)
"Joseph Andrews: Hero and shortened title of The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend, Mr …
Gabrielle Zevin: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (2022, Viking)
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and …
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (2002)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel by Mark Twain about a boy growing up along the Mississippi …
One would like to say: What the? Four stars for the sheer audacity. - This book has been marketed as a sequel to Silverlock; it is nothing of the sort. It is shorter, the protagonist is flatter, there is no development. We don't get to meet any characters from fiction (Sumerian and later mythology always excepted) - but we meet authors, in an anachronistically. The second half is better than the first, and I had trouble parsing the literary debates in convoluted faux noir jargon. But then again, I enjoyed that trouble. In many ways, a curious throwback to 1930s to 1950s mythology comedy films and novels like My Friend Harvey, Topper, Night Life of the Gods, but with epic poetry.
