In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward to the tales of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, so beloved by Russian society in the 1820…
"Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat." Tout langage stéréotypé devient aberrant. C'est ce que Ionesco démontre dans Rhinocéros, pièce qui a tout d'abord vu le jou…
Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of "Sovremennik". I t was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and m…
Jacques the Fatalist is Diderot's answer to the problem of existence. If human beings are determined by their genes and their environment, how can they claim to be free to want or do anything? Where a…
Considerada una obra maestra, esta novela supuso el reconocimiento de Simin Daneshvar como una autora indispensable de la moderna literatura persa. Reeditada en numerosas ocasiones, Suvashun fue una n…
Published by Rizzoli in 1975, Letter to a Child Never Born was quickly translated and sold in twenty-seven countries worldwide, becoming an extraordinary success. It is the tragic monologue of a woman…
Born of a terrible insomnia—"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"—this book presents the youthful Emil Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra,…
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…
"Father Sergius" (Russian: Отец Сергий, translit. Otets Sergiy) is a story written by Leo Tolstoy between 1890 and 1898 and first published (posthumously) in 1911.
ژیل بر اثر حادثه‌ای مرموز دچار فراموشی می‌شود. همسرش لیزا او را به خانه می‌آورد اما ژیل حافظه‌اش را از دست داده است و سعی می‌کند از صحبت‌ها و تعریف‌های همسرش گذشته را بازسازی کند و هویت خود را باز یاب…
