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[casandra]

hobglobin, on 10 March 2013 - 09:23 AM, said:

nothing correct exits here so far, but Mlle C is closer (geographically but not philosophically)

from Jean Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness?

[hobglobin]

yes author is correct, book not

[casandra]

hobglobin, on 10 March 2013 - 09:30 AM, said:

yes author is correct, book not

ok..he wrote a lot..probably from one of his The Roads to Freedom trilogy?

[hobglobin]

nope, and btw your speed of getting the author is disgusting   (but my hints are very good of course )

[casandra]

hobglobin, on 10 March 2013 - 09:41 AM, said:

nope, and btw your speed of getting the author is disgusting   (but my hints are very good of course )

ppfftt...which hints- 20th century, not english? I am just good in deducing...plus I have already developed a good strategy for eliminating noise and narrowing down the list of books or authors...

[casandra]

btw, you have to give clues now- is it a novel, short story or an essay?

[hobglobin]

casandra, on 10 March 2013 - 09:50 AM, said:

hobglobin, on 10 March 2013 - 09:41 AM, said:

nope, and btw your speed of getting the author is disgusting   (but my hints are very good of course )

ppfftt...which hints- 20th century, not english? I am just good in deducing...plus I have already developed a good strategy for eliminating noise and narrowing down the list of books or authors...

I just gave a fat hint in my previous post for the title

[casandra]

hobglobin, on 10 March 2013 - 09:55 AM, said:

casandra, on 10 March 2013 - 09:50 AM, said:

hobglobin, on 10 March 2013 - 09:41 AM, said:

nope, and btw your speed of getting the author is disgusting   (but my hints are very good of course )

ppfftt...which hints- 20th century, not english? I am just good in deducing...plus I have already developed a good strategy for eliminating noise and narrowing down the list of books or authors...

I just gave a fat hint in my previous post for the title

ok...I got it....Nausea?

[hobglobin]

casandra, on 10 March 2013 - 09:59 AM, said:

hobglobin, on 10 March 2013 - 09:55 AM, said:

casandra, on 10 March 2013 - 09:50 AM, said:

hobglobin, on 10 March 2013 - 09:41 AM, said:

nope, and btw your speed of getting the author is disgusting   (but my hints are very good of course )

ppfftt...which hints- 20th century, not english? I am just good in deducing...plus I have already developed a good strategy for eliminating noise and narrowing down the list of books or authors...

I just gave a fat hint in my previous post for the title

ok...I got it....Nausea?

yes and other hints were "nothing correct exists" here (nothingness, existentialism) and that it has a philosophic background
your turn Mlle C

[casandra]

ok...this one's a real masterpiece...20th century, not english:

"So I wanted to show you your hero. He has been sitting here for about two thousand years, sleeping, but, when the moon is full, he is tormented, as you see, by insomnia. And it torments not only him, but his faithful guardian, the dog. If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it. The only thing that brave creature ever feared was thunderstorms. But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one who is loved."

[hobglobin]

sounds a bit like Friedrich I. Barbarossa so it might be Umberto Eco's Baudolino

[casandra]

hobglobin, on 10 March 2013 - 01:48 PM, said:

sounds a bit like Friedrich I. Barbarossa so it might be Umberto Eco's Baudolino

nope..the speaker is more powerful than Barbarossa...and this novel has more biblical reference... and I judge it to be a very good guess though...

Edited by casandra, 10 March 2013 - 02:01 PM.

[Tabaluga]

Ok here are some wild guesses: by Allende ? or Kafka ? And why does it somehow remind me of the Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Lagerlöf ??

[hobglobin]

In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?

[Tabaluga]

seeing Casandra's above post just now - in that case my wild guesses won't take me far, I guess. More clues please