Ok friends, I‘ve pulled 3 NYRB classics off my shelf as nominees for May‘s #NYRBbookclub selection 🤓 Vote away!!
Ok friends, I‘ve pulled 3 NYRB classics off my shelf as nominees for May‘s #NYRBbookclub selection 🤓 Vote away!!
3⭐️ “Solitude, what a sad and beautiful thing it is! How beautiful when we choose it! How sad when it is forced upon us year after year!” The main character Victor Baton is a pitiful chap; he is poor and has no friends 😭
I found this novella so much similar to George Orwell‘s Down and Out in Paris and London; Bove‘s style is sharper and of faster pace it was an enjoyable read despite the depressing theme