Despite the fact that the girl did not finish school, she mastered four languages: Serbian, Hungarian, English and German.
A resident of Australia, who did not even go to school, kept a list of books that he read from the age of 14 to 94. Their number was 1658 pieces. His grandson, director of the University College Alfacrucis Ben Myers, said this on Twitter.
“This is an amazing archive of human consciousness, almost a century long,” the man said.
According to him, the woman’s family fled Yugoslavia in 1945. She ended up in Germany and then in Australia.
To read 1658 books in 80 years, he reads two books every month.
“I want to learn German as soon as possible and read some good books out loud to my mother. I remember the novels of Dostoevsky and Dumas. One day I found a small book hidden on the wall. People don’t know farm owner told me about it and said I could keep it for myself. It turned out to be the German edition of The World’s Greatest Henry Drummond. I liked it and read it many times. I decided on that and then I would compile my life in this book,” the woman wrote in her diary.
My 94-year-old grandmother keeps a list of every book she has read since she was 14 years old. Amazing archive of one man’s mind for nearly a century pic.twitter.com/Cu9znTgkJO
— Ben Myers (@_BenMyers_) March 20, 2023
Recall that the Italian Filippo Bernardini confessed to the theft of more than 1,000 unpublished manuscripts. He has tricked them with various writers, including Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan and Sally Rooney.
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