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Kavring rated Shyness and dignity: 5 stars
Kavring rated Mrs. Dalloway: 5 stars
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s novel chronicles a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a politician’s wife in 1920s London, as she …
Kavring rated Revelation Space: 4 stars
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds (Revelation Space, #1)
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin.
For the humans now settling the Amarantin homeworld, it's of …
Kavring rated Epistemology of the Closet: 5 stars
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Epistemology of the Closet (1990, University of California Press)
Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Working from classic texts of European and American writers―including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde―Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment …
King Lear by William Shakespeare (The Arden Shakespeare)
King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. …
Kavring rated Ars moriendi, eller, De syv dødsmåter: 5 stars
Kavring rated Neveryóna: 5 stars
Neveryóna by Samuel R. Delany ("Return to Neveryon", a series of eleven “sword and sorcery” stories)
Neveryona or: The Tale of Signs and Cities. Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four (Return to Neveryon, …
Kavring reviewed S/Z by Roland Barthes
This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story Sarrasine.
Review of 'S/Z' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Kavring reviewed Hogg by Samuel R. Delany
Uncomfortable reading. I tried reading it against the history of lynchings and slavery.
Kavring rated Samlede digte: 5 stars
Kavring reviewed The Other Wind (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 6) by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle (6))
The Other Wind is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, …
Review of 'The Other Wind (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 6)' on 'Goodreads'
Spare me the cheerful veiled princess.
Kavring reviewed A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle, #1)
A Wizard of Earthsea is a fantasy novel written by American author Ursula K. Le …
Review of 'A Wizard of Earthsea' on 'Goodreads'
I never knew the setup was from «Daphnis and Chloe».
Kavring rated The jewel-hinged jaw: 5 stars
Samuel R. Delany: The jewel-hinged jaw (1978, Berkley Pub. Corp.)
The jewel-hinged jaw by Samuel R. Delany (A Berkley Windhover book)
Kavring rated Madness and Civilization: 5 stars
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (French: Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie …