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Umberto Eco Review by Dan Geddes Umberto Eco’s The Prague Cemetery is an entertaining tour de force of 19th century European history. Blending history and fiction as in his previous novels (The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum), Eco uses the f... More »
Parables of Kierkegaard Edited by Thomas C. Oden Review By Dan Geddes Editor Thomas C. Oden discovered the idea of compiling Kierkegaard’s parables during a conversation with another scholar. This volume gives Kierkegaard’s parables a wider audience, as fe... More »
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Review By Dan Geddes For the would-be writer, the chief lesson of Kafka’s Metamorphosis is the effectiveness of fairy tale surrealism. Rather than submerge us in cries of despair, or the new Freudian psychology, Kafka expres... More »
Swann’s Way Remembrance of Things Past (volume 1) Marcel Proust Review By Dan Geddes 10 December 1999 Proust’s fundamental triumph in Swann’s Way is in reconstructing his own past in such detail. He recreates the rhythm and events of his childhood so viv... More »