Translated Literature

Jan 13 min read

9 Books You Can Read In A Day: Literary Escapes for Time-Bound Readers

In the vast world of literature, the pursuit of profound meaning often intertwines with the unstoppable passing of time. While some...

Feb 17, 20231 min read

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Love, like the innocence of childhood, evolves as one does in a society held tightly by the strings of convention and patriarchy. Though...

Feb 14, 20233 min read

Exploring existentialism in Alberto Moravia’s Contempt

Alberto Moravia, even before Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre Alberto Moravia writes about existentialism through his characters. In...

Feb 4, 20232 min read

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

Not a lot of people have read No Longer Human and not a lot of people will. It’s not a long book, at least not by its measure, but it...

Feb 2, 20231 min read

Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki

This book remains too ephemeral. And yet it is profoundly infused with the feeling of living in (or with) the present. It’s a book that...

Nov 28, 20221 min read

A Season in Hell and Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud

For Schopenhauer, the deepest problem of the self, afflicting itself, is our individuality. The will to live must live and fester on...

Aug 19, 20221 min read

Don Quixote by Cervantes

The truth is, before reading this book, I used to think about chivalry and its unwavering hope through a vague lens. You still see the...

Jul 31, 20221 min read

The Box Man by Kobo Abe

It all started with wanting to become, or rather be, a box man. The book introduces a work of fiction that sets the boundary that...

Jul 30, 20221 min read

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Variety is a part and parcel of all companionship. And because there are all kinds of people making different choices, there is always a...

Jul 29, 20221 min read

Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami's Men Without Women isn't easy to talk about. His characters are joined together by the same thread: loneliness. Tales...