Ataraxia

    The Anti Death League by Kingsley Amis is only 14389 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, which means that the algorithm there may start being irritating for yours truly, given that Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis is my favorite author, and this is not even the first time when I find one of the books I admire at the bottom, or not even there; for a few thousand reviews, including about thirty on the magnum opera of Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html 10 out of 10   Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-anti-death-league-by-kingsley-amis.html is my favorite author, along with Marcel Proust, Somerset Maugham, Anthony Powell, except I am much more influenced by Kingsley Amis, to the point where I have read his Letters, Memoirs and I share his views   The Anti Death League is an impressive tour de force, we have a love story, a military operation that involves nu...

  Asya by Ivan Turgenev – Fathers and Sons is ranked 175 th on The Greatest Books of all Time site, Ivan Turgenev was one of the greatest writers of Russia, and the world…you find reviews, including of oeuvres by this and other Russian authors on my blog   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   9 out of 10   Ivan Turgenev https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-counting-house-by-ivan-turgenev-is.html is one of my favorite authors, indeed, I like him more than the ‘superstar’ Leo Tolstoy, especially since I have read about their relationship, the shenanigans, Tolstoy’s misbehavior, to say the least, up to the last moment   While Tolstoy refused to improve, legalize the status of his illegitimate children, Ivan Turgenev was much more of a noble – noblesse oblige by the way – the two had quarreled, but Leo Tolstoy refused to make amends, even when his former friend was dying, or at least this is how this ve...

  Les Justes by Albert Camus, the author of The Stranger, which is Number One on The 100 Books of The Century, as compiled by Le Monde, and 23 rd on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you may want to visit my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html for more reviews   8 out of 10   Albert Camus https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/12/letranger-by-albert-camus-10-out-of-10.html has written L’Etranger aka The Stranger, which for Le Monde, and maybe most of The French, is the nec plus ultra, rien ne vas plus, crème de la crème, The Best, or at least for the 20 th Century, for there are also   Honore de Balzac, which happens to be the name of one of my two macaws (who could be female, if the spouse is correct in her speculations, regarding his/her attempts to nest, aggressivity which has increased of late), Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo…Marcel Proust is in second position, on the Le Monde list… Nevertheless, ...

  Death by Woody Allen, once a venerated film maker, rather controversial in the present, seeing that his private life casts a shadow, my reviews are at: https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   7 out of 10   Woody Allen https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/annie-hall-screenplay-by-woody-allen.html was once nec plus ultra, crème de la crème, he could not go wrong, his comedies were sophisticated, challenging, dazzling, you could even enjoy a drama by this special auteur, or a thriller, murder mystery, as in…   Manhattan Murder Mystery, nevertheless, as some critics have pointed out, but not when those oeuvres were the toast of the festivals, even the Oscars, where the man has won four Academy Awards, in more recent years, some have observed (or is it most, maybe all relevant partis) that there is a redundancy in the scripts. Worse still, the film maker appears to encourage a sort of malevolent, pernicious relat...