Up next / Joseph Conrad: Victory
"I’ve never written one [novel] without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing." (Joan Didion)
The Brothers Karamazov
"I've been wondering about Dostoevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?" (Ernest Hemingway)
Up Next / The Brothers Karamazov
When I picked up The Brothers Karamazov a couple of months ago I couldn't have been more positively biased towards it. Maybe that was what went wrong.
A Way of Man (Miehen Tie) - a Nobel-winning work that doesn't exist in English
Frans Eemil Sillanpää might well be one of the least known best storytellers in history.