Il ballo al Kremlino
9 best books like Il ballo al Kremlino (Curzio Malaparte): The Civil Wars, Compulsory Games, The Pot of Gold and Other Plays, Das siebte Kreuz, Omer Pacha Latas, Sand, Alles umsonst, The Gate, Other Men's Daughters
| Author | Appian |
| ISBN | 0140445099 |
Appian's Civil Wars offers a masterly account of the turbulent epoch from the time of Tiberius Gracchus (133 BC) to the tremendous conflicts which followed the murder of Julius Caesar. For the events between 133 and 70 BC he is the only surviving continuous narrative source. The subsequent books vividly...
| Author | Robert Aickman |
| ISBN | 1681371898 |
Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though his self-described “strange stories” remain confoundingly and uniquely his own. Aickman’s superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of...
A farcical collection of Roman comedies
10 November 2014
Okay, I have made comments on all of the plays in this book, but I wanted to spend a little time looking at the collection as a whole. As I have said time and time again, the difficulty that I have with reading plays is that they are designed...
| Author | Anna Seghers |
| ISBN | 3746651514 |
Dieser Roman, der zuerst 1942 in englischer Sprache, kurz darauf im mexikanischen Exilverlag El Libro Libre in deutscher Sprache erschien, machte die Autorin weltberühmt. Er wurde zu einem Bestseller. Der Stoff wurde 1942 in einer Comic-Fassung und in der Verfilmung des österreichischen Emigranten...
| Author | Ivo Andrić |
| ISBN | 2842611470 |
Andric's final novel has moments of insight and beauty, but at times its incompleteness is obvious. In his introduction, Vollmann calls it a strange novel and I would have to agree. Ostensibly about the titular character, this novel is really a collection of stories about individuals within the Pasha's...
| Author | Wolfgang Herrndorf |
| ISBN | 3871347345 |
"Er aß und trank, bürstete seine Kleider ab, leerte den Sand aus seinen Taschen und überprüfte noch einmal die Innentasche des Blazers. Er wusch sich unter dem Tisch die Hände mit ein wenig Trinkwasser, goß den Rest über seine geplagten Füße und schaute die Straße entlang. Sandfarbene Kinder...
| Author | Walter Kempowski |
| ISBN | 3813502643 |
Winter, January 1945. It is cold and dark, and the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family tries to seal itself off from the...
| Author | Natsume Sōseki |
| ISBN | 0720612500 |
One of the central masterpieces of 20th-century Japanese literature, The Gate describes the everyday world of the humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone, living in quiet obscurity in a house at the bottom of a cliff. Seemingly cursed with the inability to have children, the couple find themselves having...
| Author | Richard Stern |
| ISBN | 0810151464 |
Harvard physiologist Robert Merriwether has four whip-smart children, an attractive and intelligent wife, and a successful, stimulating career. True, he and Sarah have not slept together in years, and when he decides to stay behind in Cambridge for the summer while the rest of the family vacations...
