Drown by Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner & Steven D. Levitt
Love is a privileged perception, the most complete and total perception not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows, we ourselves are shadows.
Octavio Paz
on Adolfo Bioy Casares’s La Invención de Morel
We are suspicious of a stranger who tells us his life story, who tells us spontaneously that he has been captured, sentenced to life imprisonment, and that we are his reason for living. We are afraid that he is merely tricking us into buying a fountain pen or a bottle with a miniature sailing vessel inside.
Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel
A profoundly written concept of the metaphysical. This book absolutely blows my mind.
