Giacomo Joyce

Author	Marcel Proust
ISBN	0143039318

Sodom and Gomorrah – now in a superb translation by John Sturrock – takes up the theme of homosexual love, male and female, and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust's novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris, and the...

Author	Sigmund Freud
ISBN	0140137912

Στα τέλη του 19ου και στις αρχές του 20ού αιώνα, ο Αυστριακός Σίγκμουντ Φρόυντ, φυσιολόγος και ψυχίατρος, έθεσε με τις μελέτες του τις βάσεις της ψυχανάλυσης...

Author	Alexander Pushkin
ISBN	5050047730

Had I been 15, I would've certainly fallen in love with or say fantasized about Ruslan and though I'm not, this poetical work has been successful in charming me. Pushkin's dedication, "Queens of my heart, you lovely girls, they're meant for you and only you" was something I felt throughout. He weaves...

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	Bohumil Hrabal
ISBN	0349102627

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 has acquired an education so unwitting he can't quite tell which of his thoughts are his own and which come from...

Author	Alexander Pushkin
ISBN	5170185022

My last challenge for the Modern Mrs. Darcy Challenge. Three days to read 16 pages (I have four days, but one for emergencies). Doesn't sound much, but the tale is Russian. I can read it, but slowly. I have to look up a lot of words.
The tale is famous, of course: the husband of a poor, poor couple finds...

Author	Thomas Bernhard
ISBN	1400077559

The playwright and novelist Thomas Bernhard was one of the most widely translated and admired writers of his generation, winner of the three most coveted literary prizes in Germany. Gargoyles, one of his earliest novels, is a singular, surreal study of the nature of humanity.

One morning...