Reviews for The keeper of ruins and other inventions

The average rating for The keeper of ruins and other inventions based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-01-11 00:00:00 Ralph Terracciano Overwrought stories. A few, very few, have the sonorousness of prose poems. My favorite is "A Bench in the Park." Bufalino was word drunk in the Melvillean sense. Perhaps it isn't so surprising then that the story "The Beauty of the Universe," with its pontificating tutor and his pettycoated charge, should have reminded me so much of the unreadable Pierre, or the Ambiguities. Moreover, and this is consonant with his baroque style, it seems as if the ideal time period for Bufalino is the 14th century. Just before the Renaissance. One story mentions a Walkman. But such a contemporary reference is rare.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-09-29 00:00:00 Justin Henderson "Com'è stato difficile essere me, com'è stato misterioso. Talvolta anche bello, qualunque cosa io stesso abbia mai pensato o detto altrimenti. E sì che cento volte, come un brutto film o un sogno bisbetico, avrei voluto lasciarmi a mezzo. Interrompere, interrompersi è salutare. Sconcludere, che c'è di meglio?" (Voci di pianto da un lettino di sleeping-car, p. 163)