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By Joseph Conrad, 1911
Everyman's Library, London
336 pp.

Conrad speaks of crime and punishment, guilt and atonement. In the same way that Virginia Wolf was the English master of describing the feelings of her heroines in times of tranquility and reflection, none of the 20th century's English writers could equal Conrad’s masterful descriptions of the violent struggle happening inside the minds of his novels' heroes.

Most of the stories(the crimes, the double-agent plot, the fights inside the revolutionaries' circles), had been heard by Conrad while frequenting friends’ houses or had been well covered by the press. And Razumov, the main character of Under Western Eyes , has been built–as Jocelyn Baines explains in her definitive biography of our novelist–facing Dostoyevsky’s creatures.

However, the struggle that Razumov faces is not only as intense as the one of Raskolnikov’s, but it also goes farther. It becomes a general representation of the character of a nation.

Under Western Eyes becomes Conrad’s best attempt to portray for his English readers the psychology of Russia; it is also his attempt to exceed the talent of Dostoyevsky, whom he never liked.

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Eyes White Noise In Cold Blood


"The supermarket shelves have been rearranged. It happened one day without warning". Don DeLillo finds the way to write the epic of a society with no major tragedy but its boredom and its chronic depression.

There is a theology behind and beyond these creatures' lives. But it is has been established just to create an order. As a nun explains to Jack Gladney (this kind of Leopold Bloom figuring out what to eat today and where to go later, but in a little town in America at the end of the 20th Century): " if we did not pretend to believe these things, the world would collapse".

Paradise exists: an organized country where the lack of real problems creates a bunch of zombies eating pill after pill, moving through a place where there was "nothing to do but wait for the next sunset".

This is the world of the Gladney family. White Noise is a scary portrait of a society where ignorance and routine is the rule. A creepy place where it makes perfect sense to ask ourselves, as his father-in-law asks Jack before giving him a gun: "Were people this dumb before television?"

How Much For Real Pearls

This is one of those books that grips you by the neck, opens your skull, and fills your brain with images, voices, dialogues and fears.
It's terrific storytelling. Capote did not know anything about crime until he started interviewing the murderers and detectives involved in this case. However, he portrays the characters of this story as if he had hung out with them in Kansas all His life.
Somehow, Capote writes for us a captivating version of how the life of the Clutters WAS Their prior to death, or the life of the assassins way Before the murder.
Following the criminals in Their trip from Kansas to Mexico and back to Kansas and Las Vegas, little by little I weaves readers around the world this whole, One That terrified us as if we where the ones waiting in That house in Kansas, That full - moon night of November in 1959.