Lectures on Literature
8 best books like Lectures on Literature (Vladimir Nabokov): Sodom and Gomorrah, Sentimental Education, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2013, Fedeltà, La straniera, Benevolenza cosmica, The Miner
| 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 | Gustave Flaubert |
| ISBN | 0140447970 |
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my generation.” It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux,...
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
| Author | Marcel Proust |
| ISBN | 0143039075 |
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lies his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different...
Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2013
| Author | Philip Roth |
| ISBN | 1598535404 |
Tracing the full span of Philip Roth’s career—from the early controversies surrounding the stories in Goodbye, Columbus to his recent assessments of his work and corrections of the record—Why Write? shows at every turn the vigor, acuity, and persuasive power of Roth’s brilliant nonfiction....
«Il malinteso», così Carlo e Margherita chiamano il dubbio che ha incrinato la superficie del loro matrimonio. Carlo è stato visto nel bagno dell'università insieme a una studentessa: «si è sentita male, l'ho soccorsa», racconta al rettore, ai colleghi, alla moglie, e Sofia conferma la...
| Author | Claudia Durastanti |
| ISBN | 8893447754 |
"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia è la somma di tutte le ere geologiche che hai attraversato". Come si racconta una vita se non esplorandone i luoghi simbolici e geografici, ricostruendo una mappa di sé e del mondo vissuto? Tra la Basilicata...
A Kurt O'Reilly non ne va bene una. Ma una, eh? Il medico cui si rivolge per un piccolo fastidio gli spiega, esterrefatto, che in tutti i casi conosciuti quel problema ha un esito nefasto – tranne che nel suo. Sul lettino di un tatuatore, una sensazionale pornostar gli lascia intravedere un paradiso...
| 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...
