Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1923, Knight's Move is a collection of articles and short critical pieces that Viktor Shklovsky, no doubt the most or...
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Reducere. Tynset takes place during a sleepless night, but as the work unfolds it becomes apparent that the circumstances of the immediate present serve mere...
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Reducere. Moritz Wenk is an averagely unsuccessful painter, and Judith Wenk, a dental hygienist, are a close and harmonius couple. During a week in a very ho...
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Reducere. A little thing happened to me. Which could just as easily have happened to you. You re on vacation in a hotel with your son in a small village and ...
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Reducere. -- Paperback original.-- First U.S. edition. British publication by Hart-Davis, McGibbon Ltd ('76).-- A companion to The Best of Myles, Further Cut...
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Reducere. Zulfikar Ghose has both ranked with and outranked several of the best English language writers in England and America." - Review of Contemporary Fi...
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Reducere. Jachym Topol is the most-translated Czech author of his generation, lauded for his imaginative storytelling and his inventive use of language. Meld...
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Reducere. One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.We have a marvelous, almost legendary, i...
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Reducere. "The Best of Myles" brings together the best of Flann O'Brien's newspaper column "Cruiskeen Lawn, " written over a nearly thirty-year period. Cover...
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Reducere. The time is the twilight of the decrepit Brezhnev regime, the place, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldavia: the "Latin periphery of empire." A ...
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Reducere. Between World Wars I and II, three expatriate Americans attempt to reconstruct a vision of the fractured Europe they've been forced to occupy; mean...
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Reducere. Award NameBest Translated Book AwardAward categoryFiction?ric Chevillard here seeks to clear up a persistent and pernicious literary misunderstandi...
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Reducere. Elegy for Joseph Cornell is at once a monologue; a collection of metafictional microfictions; a series of prose poems; an artist's quest; the hero'...
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Reducere. Initially published in 1984, Dermot Healy s stunning first novel, "Fighting with Shadows, " returns to print after almost thirty years. Largely set...
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Reducere. Complex and hauntingly beautiful, Lygia Fagundes Telles's most acclaimed novel is a journey into the inner lives of three young women, each reveali...
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Reducere. Octave Mirbeau, author of The Torture Garden and Diary of a Chambermaid, wrote this scathing novel on the cusp of the twentieth century. Driven mad...
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Reducere. An unprecedented gathering of the correspondence of one of the great writers of twentieth century, the Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien presents ...
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Reducere. A remarkable collection of writings by members of the group known as the Oulipo (Ouvroir de litterature potentiale), this anthology includes, among...
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Reducere. Stasiuk's masterpiece--in line with the work of Danilo Kis and countryman Bruno Schulz--is finally made available in English in a stunning translat...
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Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...
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Reducere. A new collection of poems from the American author, poet, and playwright Ishmael Reed.The poems in this new collection from Ishmael Reed were writt...
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Reducere. A director is trying to adapt a short story he once wrote for the screen.The story is about an isolated train station under threat by a giant eagle...
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Reducere. Itself a mixture of idolatry, deft characterization, and critical insight, "Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram Van Velde" is both an entert...
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Reducere. Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fair, the townspeople assail the priest in hopes of...
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Reducere. A poetic book of voices, landscapes and the passing of time, Ann Quin's finely wrought novel reflects the multiple meanings of the very word ``pass...
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Reducere. -- Ruth and Leonard's young female boarder, S., disappears under circumstances that suggest suicide. As the couple pours over her diary, audio tape...
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Reducere. Martereau is narrated by a tubercular young man driven by a compulsion to discover what lies behind faades, especially in relation to the adults ar...
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Reducere. "Barley Patch" takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fiction-or so he thinks-forever. Using the form of an oblique self-interrog...
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Reducere. The Poor (Os Pobres, 1906), by Portuguese author Raul Brandao is a powerful tribute to the underclasses. Innovative thematically and stylistically,...
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Reducere. "The Attic" is Danilo Ki's first novel. Written in 1960, published in 1962, and set in contemporary Belgrade, it explores the relationship of a you...
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Reducere. DescriptionRina is a defector from a country that might be North Korea, traversing an "empty and futile" landscape. Along the way, she is forced to...
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Reducere. Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When l...
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Reducere. DescriptionA bedraggled detective is dispatched to an IDF base where a man was burned alive while making a training film. An art student in Paris b...
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Reducere. The end of the world is the least of the problems facing Gaspard Boisvert, erstwhile advisor to "the stupidest American president in history, " whe...
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Reducere. Set in an imaginary European city, "The Passion Artist" takes us into the dream-like interior world of Konrad Vost, a middle-aged widower grieving ...
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Reducere. In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the grea...
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Reducere. In this collection by a canonical figure in Korean literature, meditations upon life in old age come to the fore -- at its best, accompanied by gre...
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Reducere. The late Severo Sarduy was one of the most outrageous and baroque of the Latin American Boom writers of the sixties and seventies, and here bound b...
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Reducere. When John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Barth's writing was not a response to the realist...
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Reducere. Alistair Ian Blyth's Card Catalogue is a book about books. Set in Bucharest in the decade after the Revolution, it presents a series of dreamlike n...
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