UNESCO Part IX, Banfield, Maxwell

So far today I read Revolution aux Philippines by Jose Rizal, Martin Coucou by Jeno Tersansz, Banfield's Phantom Table, Maxwell's Integrating the Mind and Yao Xueyin's La longue nuit. Revolution is a political novel, that is to say a novel written for political reasons, about the turn of the century political troubles in the Philippines. Coucou is a picaresque novel translated from an everyday Hungary. Banfield is that essay on Virginia Woolfe that was jargon laden: and so it was, right to the last page. Maxwell's book is an edited collection on cognition; I only read five essays about analogical cognition, and as with the rest of this field, I was disappointed. Yao's book is an autobiographical novel of a Chinese youth kidnapped by a roving band of criminals and adopted into their fraternity against his will. All's well that ends well, but it is hair-raising to think what the poor guy went through.