Die Ursache: Eine Andeutung

Author	Gustave Flaubert
ISBN	0140448004

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness, and religious experience; together they confirm Flaubert as a master of the short story. A Simple Heart (also published as A Simple Soul), relates the story of Félicité, an uneducated serving-woman...

Author	Heinrich von Kleist
ISBN	0976140721

Based on historical events, this thrilling saga of violence and retribution bridges the gap between Medieval and modern literature, and speaks so profoundly to the contemporary spirit that it has been the basis of numerous plays, movies, and novels.

It has become, in fact, a classic tale:...

Author	Knut Hamsun
ISBN	0394717813

“Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all. A dull and desolate existence? Nay, least of all. A man had everything; his powers above, his dreams, his loves, his wealth of superstition.”

Having spent most of a weekend...

Author	Klaus Mann
ISBN	0140189181

Klaus Mann - Thomas Mann’s son - wrote MEPHISTO while living in exile from the Germany of World War II. In it he captures the Isherwood-like atmosphere of Nazi Germany while telling a satiric story about the rise to power of one man - a thinly veiled caricature of his own brother-in-law. The man is Hendrik...

Author	Samuel Beckett
ISBN	0802151175

Written and published in French in 1951, and in Samuel Beckett’s English translation in 1956, Malone Dies is the second of his immediate post-war novels, written during what Beckett later referred to as ‘the siege in the room’.

‘Malone’, writes Malone, ‘is what I am called now.’...

Author	Honoré de Balzac
ISBN	0940322749

One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius--or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso,...

Author	Peter Handke
ISBN	1590170199

Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the war, and the postwar consumer economy, she struggled to maintain appearances, only to arrive at a terrible recognition: "I'm not human any more." Not long after, she killed herself with an overdose of...

Author	Zerocalcare
ISBN	8865431806

Zerocalcare (il personaggio) è in coma, gli zombie stanno per decimare quel che resta della popolazione di Rebibbia e tocca a Secco, Katja e all'amico Cinghiale trovare un mezzo per scappare da una situazione ormai compromessa. Prendendosi una pausa dal suo abituale sguardo sul mondo (e da se stesso...

Author

Annie Ernaux

"J’ai voulu l’oublier cette fille. L’oublier vraiment, c’est-à-dire ne plus avoir envie d’écrire sur elle. Ne plus penser que je dois écrire sur elle, son désir, sa folie, son idiotie et son orgueil, sa faim et son sang tari. Je n’y suis jamais parvenue."
Dans Mémoire de fille,...

Author	Sarah Kuttner
ISBN	3103974248

Von der Suche nach Familie, der Sehnsucht nach dem richtigen Ort und darüber, dass nichts davon planbar ist

»Ich bin mit zwei Kurts zusammengezogen. Einem ganzen Kurt und einem Halbtagskurt. Jana und Kurt haben sich entschieden, dass sie ihr Sorgerecht teilen, vor allem wenn Kurt schon...

Author	Natsume Sōseki
ISBN	0804714606

Up front, I'll admit that I'd expected a completely different novel from what I'd read about it as a blurb. I'd expected a book of a darker and more poetic vein.

Instead I got a book that felt like Goethe's Werther had teamed up with Salinger's Holden Caulfield to write a shorter version of The Life...

Author	Zerocalcare
ISBN	8889021446

Nipote:"Oh zi, ma hai già letto qualcosa di Michele Rech?"
La sottoscritta: "Chii?"
"Michele Rech, troooppo figoo!!"
"E chi è?"
"Quello che si disegna sempre con l'armadillo!"
"Aaahhhh ma tu vuoi dire Zerocalcare!! Sì, ho appena finito di leggere il suo primo albo: molte...