Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations
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- "In every play, the hero is pushed beyond a certain limit, out of the domain in which rules of normal human existence apply; he or she finds him or herself in what Lacan called “between-the-two-deaths”: dead while still alive." fivebooks.com/best-books/s...
- "In Oscar and Lucinda Carey has marvellous description of a glass church floating down a river. So for me it’s the way he allows his imagination to play and to fill the space. He is also a very elegant writer." fivebooks.com/best-books/b...
- "The idea that European integration is a mechanism for delivering peace and harmony is now deeply ingrained – the fact that the disputes over how best to resolve the euro crisis are creating political tensions and schisms notwithstanding to the contrary." fivebooks.com/best-books/e...
- “For Plotinus, philosophy is not only an intellectual exercise but also a way of life” fivebooks.com/best-books/n...
- “I am excited by texts which render the landscape as animate and having agency” fivebooks.com/best-books/i...
- "In Norway there’s a tendency to allow more emotional writing than Danes can usually get away with” fivebooks.com/best-books/c...
- "It’s always been really difficult to enslave people on their own territory. What you’re much better off doing is getting people from outside." fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
- "I found Benazir Bhutto to be the person who probably gave me more insights into the nature of modern Pakistani politics and history than any other person I met." fivebooks.com/best-books/b...
- "In Mexican literature there have always been dominant themes, or each generation has had its own, and in general they have to do with what terrifies us, what gnaws away at us." fivebooks.com/best-books/c...
- "When I think about cheating, for me it is almost a primal desire to win at all costs." fivebooks.com/best-books/s...
