Reza pooresmaeel

First of all let's own up to this: everybody's afraid of Virginia Woolf. Orlando, on the other hand, is not like any others of hers. The sense of humour is strikingly outstanding among all the features of the book. Has anybody else ever told you this less known and shown Virginia's characteristics? I am quite certain that you will find yourself at least smiling reading Orlando. Overall, around 400 years of English (or rather British) literary history comes in for criticism (with humour and in a subtle light-hearted way). As a feminist cris de coeur, she brilliantly sketches, once more, women's conditions over these 4 centuries. She wrote about a normally-being-called-good woman: "if the spirit," which means zeitgeist here, "had examined the contents of her mind carefully, it would not have found something highly contraband for which she would have had to pay the full fine." You will not regret if you dare to pick up the book for a read. Reza

Allusory as the very concept of happiness may seem to some of us; the journey, undertaken by a brilliant author, Lila Azam Zanganeh, through one of the most unorthodox, demanding, and sophisticated literary figures, Vladimir Nabokov's oeuvre can be both so satisfying and greatly edifying. Satisfying it is I say because it is overflowing with beautiful sentences, imagery, ideas, and so forth. it is edifying as well because a gifted student of Harvard's encounter with Vladimir Nabokov's stirring work can fully educate us to make ours less frightening and more delightful.

I read once that all poems turn to an elegy about life under layers upon layers of the patina of time. To me, "The House Of Spirits," is a beautifully written, poignant, engaging, in-an-epic-scale-dimension story cherishing life in all its possibilities. On the other hand, it amazes us who has lived under a dictatorship to notice they are almost the same everywhere as if they follow the same pattern. It is heartwarming to known, surely, they suffer the same fate at last. By the way, the book will remain among those rare ones I keep recommending others I care about. Pick it up sooner rather than later and enjoy it.

So platitudinous and cliched, I think, contemporary literary themes, plots, and stories generally are, the narrative technique is what makes the whole difference. To sketch a collage through which we readers are provided with Arthur Less's as well as others' patchwork-like-memory fragments is a style that has not yet ceased to appeal. Andrew Sean Greer, the author, did a brilliant job there. "Less senses by the sun’s shift that at least an hour has passed." Such sorts of phonotactics, here sibilance, are not few in the entire book.