Usually interpreted as a diatribe against the Chernyshevsky generation, it is a work that is often referred to, but rarely read. Cioran's translation is not only readable, but is evocative of the wit …
Ester Nilsson är 31. Hon är poet och essäist och en förnuftig människa i en förnuftig relation. En dag i juni får hon ett samtal med en förfrågan om att hålla ett föredrag om konstnären Hugo Rask. I p…
داستانِ ملکوت نخست در دی‌ماه ۱۳۴۰ در مجلهٔ «کتاب هفته» به چاپ رسید و استقبالِ به‌سزایی از آن شد. در این داستان، نسبت‌به نسخهٔ چاپی ِ اوّل، تغییراتِ متعددی صورت گرفته است که همه براساس نسخه‌ای است‌که ن…
My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx's Deli. The year was 1934. The place was Third and Hill, Los Angeles. I was twenty-one years old, living in a world bounded on…
دار سایه درازی داشت. وحشتناک و عجیب. خورشید که برمی‌آمد، سایه‌اش از جلو همه مغازه‌ها و خانه‌ها می‌گذشت. با این صحنه شگفت سال بلوا آغاز می‌شود. داستانی که در آن همه چیز منظم است و منظم…
Has your life been a failure? Let's make your death a success With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live. And busi…
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics (1899), as well as several lesser-known works, no less masterful in their composition. David Plante is a Professo…
The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence. Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel …
Çehov bir taşra kasabasındaki akıl hastanesinde geçen bu novellasında, eğitimli bir hasta olan İvan Dmitriç ile Doktor Andrey Yefimıç arasındaki felsefi çatışmaya odaklanır. İvan Dmitriç maruz kaldıkl…
TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE is a tender and funny story of Haňťa - a man who has lived in a Czech police state - for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. In the process of compacting, he ha…
Irténiev, propriétaire terrien, est un homme sérieux, qui gère son domaine avec efficacité et rigueur. Marié à la douce et fragile Lise, romantique amoureuse qui l'idéalise, Irténiev fait de son mieux…
