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Enjoyable but deep as a puddle

Title: On Dublin Street
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Year: 2013
Pages: 414
ISBN: 978-140-591-298-3

What do you do when you don’t know which approach to take on reviewing a book that isn’t exactly your cup of tea, doesn’t even come close to what literature is, even contemporary one at that, but in spite of all this you thoroughly enjoyed it?

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Things that gain from disorder

Title: Antifragile. How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand
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Year: 2013
Pages: 544
ISBN: 9781846141560

Antifragile is not what you call easy material. Neither to read, nor to summarize. This book is many things and definitely not what you expected. But at least, I can promise you won't get bored because the author is not fooling around spending 500 pages for some 50 pages ideas. Each paragraph is rich in information and pretty useful. Taleb explains the ethics of Fragility and Antifragility, answering a lot of questions like: how we missed the word antifragility in classrooms, where do we find overcompensation, why death is a necessity for life, which are the benefits of error for the collective, how antifragility of the whole often depends on the fragility of the parts, which are the flaws of intellectualism. He goes on with many other questions that people are too afraid to ask, or have no one to talk about with. He even dares to say that obsessive love is the most antifragile thing outside the economics.

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A new detective on the rise

Title: Colin Fischer
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Year: 2012
Pages: 256
ISBN: 978-0-141-34399-0

Colin Fischer is the new detective in town. Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Monk or Colombo are merely his predecessors. Beside the detective side, these characters have another thing in common: the inability (or a low developed ability, at least) to interact normally with the people around them. Like them, Colin Fischer has his own way of dealing with the surrounding world: he retracts, he observes, he calculates in mathematical manner everything, and then he draws conclusions.

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Voci interioare şi exil într-un Portret al artistului

Titlu: A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Anul aparitiei: 2000
Numar pagini: 384
ISBN: 9780141182667

Literatura integrată în Artă. Care este oare diferenţa dintre Ceilalţi şi un Artist? Ce înseamnă la urma urmei ,,a fi artist”? Au ei o voce interioară mai puternică decât a celorlalţi, un temperament artistic care-i împinge spre creaţie? Şi care este raportul dintre această voce, această limbă interioară, şi cea exterioară, vorbită de comunităţile sociale? Portret al artistului in tinereţe oferă un răspuns la aceste întrebări printr-un stil aparte în lumea literaturii.

Când spun James Joyce, mă gândesc automat la modernism, la artistul rebel, care a reclădit lumea literaturii şi care a sfărâmat-o prin propria lui limbă. Mă gândesc la inovaţie, la o îmbinare a liricului cu epicul, a creatorului androgin, în care elementele feminine se îmbină cu cele masculine, aşa cum Virginia Woolf, într-unul dintre eseurile sale portretiza creatorul ideal. Şi James Joyce, fie că l-am admira sau l-am dispreţui pentru complexitatea şi temele abordate, pentru multitudinea de voci şi stiluri, rămâne un centru de referinţă pentru toţi cei pasionaţi de literatură, psihologie, mitologie şi viaţă.
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