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Amreen Dhurue
Jan 1, 20243 min read
9 Books You Can Read In A Day: Literary Escapes for Time-Bound Readers
In the vast world of literature, the pursuit of profound meaning often intertwines with the unstoppable passing of time. While some...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 17, 20231 min read
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Love, like the innocence of childhood, evolves as one does in a society held tightly by the strings of convention and patriarchy. Though...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 14, 20233 min read
Exploring existentialism in Alberto Moravia’s Contempt
Alberto Moravia, even before Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre Alberto Moravia writes about existentialism through his characters. In...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 4, 20232 min read
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Not a lot of people have read No Longer Human and not a lot of people will. It’s not a long book, at least not by its measure, but it...
Ayesha Dhurue
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki
This book remains too ephemeral. And yet it is profoundly infused with the feeling of living in (or with) the present. It’s a book that...
Ayesha Dhurue
Nov 28, 20221 min read
A Season in Hell and Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
For Schopenhauer, the deepest problem of the self, afflicting itself, is our individuality. The will to live must live and fester on...
Ayesha Dhurue
Aug 19, 20221 min read
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The truth is, before reading this book, I used to think about chivalry and its unwavering hope through a vague lens. You still see the...
Ayesha Dhurue
Jul 31, 20221 min read
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
It all started with wanting to become, or rather be, a box man. The book introduces a work of fiction that sets the boundary that...
Ayesha Dhurue
Jul 30, 20221 min read
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Variety is a part and parcel of all companionship. And because there are all kinds of people making different choices, there is always a...
Ayesha Dhurue
Jul 29, 20221 min read
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami's Men Without Women isn't easy to talk about. His characters are joined together by the same thread: loneliness. Tales...
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