The wages of immortality

From Wikipedia:

“In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15, on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century…The book outsold all Woolf’s previous novels, and the proceeds enabled the Woolfs to buy a cat.”

posted by quetzlcloth on 03.28.10 @ 4:08 am | Comments Off

Reading Gyula Krúdy

A bit of cross-blog pollination. A friend and I are doing periodic posts on things we happen to be reading. Here’s the latest, on Gyula Krúdy, a pre-WWII (and mostly pre-WWI) Hungarian writer sweet as summer berries, and deeper than he appears at first.

Gyula Krúdy: Seduction and Innocence

posted by quetzlcloth on 08.03.09 @ 8:31 am | Comments Off