„Mums į šonus įsirėžusios skalbinių virvelės, tėvas nugara atsirėmęs į karsto dangtį, pagalvoju, kad visai juokinga dabar taip matyt jį rūkantį prie savo grabo, džiaudama skalbinius to nebepastebiu, b…
„Lygiosios trunka akimirką“ vaizduoja karo metų Vilniaus getą, tačiau autoriui rūpi ne istorinė autentika, o situacijų visuotinumas ir universalioji pasirinkimų prasmė. Romano veiksmas plėtojamas trij…
Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth century. First published in 1952 under the pseudonym Claire Mor…
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are pr…
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end …
Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, is an enchantingly original and…
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye over the skin is so utterly, so extraordinarily gentle, and the sensation is so bizarre that it has …
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucida was first published in 1979. Commenting on artists such as Avedon, Clifford, Mapplethorpe, and Nadar, Roland Barthes presents photography as being outsi…
