The Street of Crocodiles in the Polish city of Drogobych is a street of memories and dreams where recollections of Bruno Schulz's uncommon boyhood and of the eerie side of his merchant family's life a…
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensivenes…
Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transc…
W Dziadach. Część II Adam Mickiewicz sięga do ludowych wierzeń, w których świat realny współistnieje ze światem duchów. Autor opisuje pogańską uroczystość poświęconą duchom zmarłych. W kaplicy przycme…
Originally published in Polish [as Rękopis Znaleziony w Saragossie, 1847], later translated into French as Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, the work is a supposed translation of a manuscript from the tim…
In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and t…
Lessico famigliare è la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge a Torino fra gli anni Trenta e Cinquanta. Natalia, l'ultima dei cinque figli Levi, è la voce narrant…
Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem to słowa Marka Edelmana, bohatera książki Hanny Krall, którego życiorys stał się literackim dokumentem z tragicznych dziejów polskich Żydów. Edelman był zastępcą komendanta Ż…
