Andreas Smith

Writer and editor

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@mrdanwalker I have the 'Hand of God' itself - in a jar - which I'm willing to part with for just £50 million for a quick sale.

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@JaycelAdkins Thanks for that! I'll read the Seidensticker, especially as the Everyman edition is quite beautiful.

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@JaycelAdkins Oh no, I've just bought the Everyman hardcover in the Edward G. Seidensticker translation! Should I take it back and get this one instead?

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@maxdaniellawton I love Conrad but disliked Nostromo on first reading. Read it again and loved it. On third reading, I thought it Conrad's most complex and greatest novel.

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@simon_schama Andre Breton included Emily Bronte in his gallery of surrealist forebears, along with Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lautreamont, Dostoyevsky, de Chirico and other extreme artists of genius. She may not be as great as Austen and George Eliot, but she has an eerie quality that they lack.

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@tommasomar @FeserEdward Dr Feser isn't dissenting from church teaching, which goes back 2000 years. If anything, the church is dissenting from church teaching.

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@PhilipHensher On the cusp of 19th and 20th centuries, but how about Paul Valery's 'Monsieur Teste'? Or Comte de Lautreamont's 'Les Chants de Maldoror'? Both a bit mad, but fascinating.

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@translationista @magistrabeck One of my favourite novels, so a good reason to read it again!

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@AnthonyEsolen You've missed out the single greatest short story writer in English: Rudyard Kipling.

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@theamelia__ 63

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@SmaragdinaVisio @AntigoneJournal Etienne Gilson: 'Philosophy always buries its own undertakers.'

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Very happy to have my story, Figures on the Seashore, published in this science-themed magazine. It's £9 for the magazine, £5 for the download, though.
Tamarind Literary Magazine https://t.co/1qwSZkTde5

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@Philip_Goff I find Sabine intelligent and entertaining when she is discussing scientific issues, often upsetting her scientific colleagues in the process, but for all her intelligence she often comes across as naïve, presumptuous and ignorantly arrogant on the great philosophical problems.

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@RobertAllenPoet Tarjei Vesaas's The Birds & The Ice Palace are moving and beautiful. I love Thomas Bernhard: 3 of his shorter novels are Yes, The Cheap-Eaters, & Concrete. You can't go wrong with Tolstoy's masterly Hadji Murat.

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@nguyenhdi Shakespeare may be the product of English culture, but he is a true world writer, admired across all cultures, from Europe to Asia to the Americas to Africa. A few years ago an Indian newspaper asked several Indian writers who was the greatest writer ever: all said Shakespeare.

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@ae_stallings I'm 400 pages into The Wings of the Dove, which I'm finding utterly riveting, though difficult at times. It's a brilliant tracing of the nuances of desire, morality and consciousness, a masterpiece. No one has a better sense of the sinister in human relations than Henry James.

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@nguyenhdi I've read them all!

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@Samantharhill Bruno Schulz's Complete Stories, the closest I've ever come to experiencing literary synesthesia, but also quite mad and often moving. Edward Feser's Five Proofs of the Existence of God, a brilliant presentation of the most powerful philosophical arguments.

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@bernardtjoy It's worth getting all six volumes of the Library of America edition of Faulkner, which also includes the collected stories.

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@nguyenhdi I agree, with Tristram Shandy second.