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  On The Edge of Death by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, this is a short story by two of the greatest writers of Russia and the world, authors of the splendid Golden Calf and The Twelve Chairs, tow of the best one hundred comedies, if you ask me – you find reviews of these and thousands of other magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel Ostap Bender vs Orange Caligula 8 out of 10   I will read the divine Ilf and Petrov again https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-golden-calf.html and I would say again, in the meantime, I have found the adaptations of some of their oeuvre for The National Radio, and noted on The New Robinson Crusoe the other day, the note should be on the blog by now   If not another Golden Calf, The New Robinson Crusoe is mordant, amusing, sarcastic: this poet is made to venture into novel writ...

Creating a New Robinson Crusoe by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, the authors of the magnificent, hilarious Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf, favorites of mine, though only 1815 th and 1387 th on the Greatest Books of All Time – you can find a few thousand reviews on magnum opera from The GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   9 out of 10   Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-twelve-chairs-by-ilf-and-petrov.html have delighted, dazzled this reader, and The Creation of New Robinson, though not on the level of their two masterpieces, shows the talent that the two Russian authors have, besides, this is also a criticism of propaganda   Especially the Soviet one, at least this is what comes across this adaptation for The National Radio that I have listed to- Fyodor Maltzev is twenty-eight, and in love with Sonja, he comes to her home, to ask ...

  Patricide is the last narrative in Lovely, Dark Deep by Joyce Carol Oates, which is a Collection of short stories that was shortlisted for The 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Literature; Joyce Carol Oates is one of the two writers who have been nominated for this award four times, the other is Philip Roth – you could check my blog for more reviews on a multitude of magnum opera https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   9 out of 10   Patricide ends Lovely, Dark, Deep https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/09/lovely-dark-deep-by-joyce-carol-oates.html nominated for The Pulitzer Prize, and this last part is listed as a novella, the rest are short stories, including the one which gives the name to the oeuvre, preceding Patricide, and sharing some of the subject   In the previous short story, Robert Frost is the main character, a celebrated poet, interviewed by Evangeline Fife, a young woman who exposes the flaws o...

  Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann is one of The Bokklubben World Library’s Greatest 100 Books of All Time, the Swedish Academy identified "the great novel Buddenbrooks" as the principal reason for The Nobel Prize awarded to Thomas Mann, it is ranked 88 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and it is one of my favorites – for more reviews you could visit https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   10 out of 10   Thomas Mann has two masterpieces https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/magic-mountain-by-thomas-mann.html among The 100 Greatest Books, and one of them is Buddenbrooks, which I seem to have appreciated less, when I first read it, or more probably, there was something, maybe some crisis which affected the experience   Buddenbrooks is so elating, marvelous that I will write at least another note, I have decided so much happened by now, after about eight hours in the audiobook, that I have to try...

  Withnail & I, written and directed by Bruce Robinson 10 out of 10 Notes and thoughts on other books are available at: -               https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E and    http://realini.blogspot.ro/ Withnail & I is a glorious comedy that is included in my personal top twenty and I think Time Out has listed as the best ever. There is a funny aspect regarding the preview, during which nobody in the audience laughed…not even once… -            Nevertheless, it was discovered that the members of the public… were Germans…and could not speak English And this is mostly a dialogue film, even if there are many scenes were we could laugh out loud at the face of Withnail or his friend, for the latter, especially when he is approached by a very horny Monty. At the start of the film, one could almost feel sor...

  Lovely, Dark Deep by Joyce Carol Oates is a Collection of short stories that was shortlisted for The 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Literature; Joyce Carol Oates is one of the two writers who have been nominated for this award four times, the other is Philip Roth – you could check my blog for more reviews on a multitude of magnum opera https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   9 out of 10   Lovely, Dark, Deep https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/09/lovely-dark-deep-by-joyce-carol-oates.html is a collection of short stories that was nominated for The Pulitzer Prize and I have already written a review on the first few, these lines will take care of rest, allegedly, except for Patricide, which will be analyzed separately…I am being facetious   "Forked River Roadside Shrine, New Jersey’ is about this accident, in which the driver, who was under the influence of both alcohol and drugs (if I remember correctly), ...