Category Archives: foreign

the suicide shop — jean teulé

this is a pre­view of the sui­cide shop — jean teulé. read the full post (234 words & 1 image, esti­mated 56 secs read­ing time)
October 2, 2008 – 15:55 | By eb | Posted in foreign, humor | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

rhinoceros — eugène ionesco

4 stars

This is what Ionesco him­self says about his play (trans­lated):
It’s not even a satire: it’s the fairly objec­tive descrip­tion of a process of inflam­ma­tion, of a devel­op­ment of a total­i­tar­i­an­ism that’s spread­ing, that prop­a­gates, cap­tures, that’s chang­ing a world. And this world will be totally changed because after all it’s about totalitarianism.

this is a pre­view of rhi­noc­eros — eugène ionesco. read the full post (288 words & 1 image, esti­mated 1:09 mins read­ing time)
March 29, 2007 – 09:45 | By eb | Posted in foreign, plays, recommendations | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

cheese — willem elsschot

3 stars

A clerk in a dock indus­try is talked into a new pro­fes­sion: sell­ing food and more par­tic­u­larly: cheese. He becomes the dis­trib­u­tor for Bel­gium and Lux­em­burg. He always felt lit­tle and of no impor­tance, but now he has the chance to prove him­self. The only prob­lem is, he has no idea how to be a (good) busi­ness­man and after only a few days of being a cheese expert he is forced to make a dif­fi­cult deci­sion; keep try­ing or go back to his old self and be happy with it.

this is a pre­view of cheese — willem elss­chot. read the full post (273 words & 1 image, esti­mated 1:06 mins read­ing time)
March 27, 2007 – 09:31 | By eb | Posted in foreign, general fiction | Tagged , , | Comments (0)