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Francis Berger

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in New York, NY, The United States

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary

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Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Dickens, Balzac, Fitzgerald, and many others ...more

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Francis Berger was born in New York City in 1971. He has published some short stories, most notably in The Toronto Star. His first novel, The City of Earthly Desire, was released in 2012. He currently resides in a small village near Sopron, Hungary.

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Authentic Altruism is Impossible; Love Between Concrete Beings Is Not

A short time ago, I commented on a quote by Mario Gramsci, a Marxist thinker and politician who died in Mussolini’s jails before the outbreak of the Second World War. Although I know little about Gramsci, he strikes me as the sort of twentieth-century figure who convinced himself that he was striving to make the world a better place for other people, all without the inconvenience of actually carin Read more of this blog post »

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