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Readers may be interested in the following books which have been added to stock at Galway City Library:

Stories of Mr Keuner, by Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht wrote his little Keuner-stories throughout his life, from the 1920s to the 1950s, publishing the stray pieces in various collections and magazines. Few of the pieces can really be characterised as stories; they are parables, aphorisms, and anecdotes, simple commentaries on the world and events. They are simply and beautifully expressed; Brecht is an often underestimated stylist and his prose gets nowhere near the recognition it deserves. These concise aphorisms and pieces are a good introduction to Brecht as a writer of prose. And they are an excellent introduction to his thinking.

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter

The themes of Porter's fiction were the search for truth, betrayal, the ordeal of living in a changing and indeterminate social order, and the value of art and the artist. In 1944 she wrote, 'In the face of such shape and weight of present misfortunes, the voice of the individual artist may seem perhaps of no more consequence than the whirring of a cricket in the grass, but the arts do live continuously. They outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilizations that produced them. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away.'

Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry

Alcoholism no longer has the glamour, literary or social, that it once had. It's understandable, then, that one of the great novels on the subject, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, published in 1947, is so little read today. The book is Lowry's most famous work, and it is arguably his best. Half a century after Lowry's own early death, the author still bears reading and study. He wrote well, truly, close to the heart, in constant battle against despair that in the end conquered him. That in itself is a kind of courage. (Kirkus Reviews)

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