[Florian L.]

I've just finished reading "The Jungle Books" by Kippling. It was the first time I closely was engaged with these themes. What was most stunning was that the thread through the text, basically, were the Mowgli stories. And, although, they were merely losely connected built a frame in which the other parts (Undertakers, ....) were emebedded fairly good. Neverthelesss the quality of the stories varied hugely, especially some of the poems I did not understand totally in terms of language and, particularly, meaning.

At the very moment I read "Tracks" by Louise Erdrich, a native North-American author. I have to read that for university and I must admit that I find it rather boring. Of course the novel provides an authentic picture of the native American at the beginning of the twentieth century but, in general, it is focused on the minority. I don't like novels whose only purpose is to create a pledge for minorities and here you realise such tendencies.