Marcel Proust: On Art and Literature 1896-1919
7 best books like Marcel Proust: On Art and Literature 1896-1919 (Marcel Proust): The Tartar Steppe, The Day of the Owl, Fontamara, The Blind Owl, Auguste Rodin, Il segreto di Luca, Autobiography of a Corpse
| Author | Dino Buzzati |
| ISBN | 1567923046 |
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life and a meditation on the human thirst for glory. It tells of young Giovanni Drogo, who is posted to a distant fort overlooking the vast Tartar steppe. Although not intending to stay, Giovanni suddenly finds...
A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of silence....
| Author | Ignazio Silone |
| ISBN | 3462025996 |
Fontamara fu pubblicato a Zurigo nel 1933. Ambientato in un paesino abruzzese, Fontamara appunto, racconta l'eterno conflitto tra "cafoni" e "cittadini", reso ancora più drammatico dall'avvento del fascismo. I contadini e i braccianti, rassegnati ormai e quasi assuefatti a subire senza reagire...
| Author | Sadegh Hedayat |
| ISBN | 0802131808 |
Considered the most important work of modern Iranian literature, The Blind Owl is a haunting tale of loss and spiritual degradation. Replete with potent symbolism and terrifying surrealistic imagery, Sadegh Hedayat's masterpice details a young man's despair after losing a mysterious lover. And...
| Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| ISBN | 0972869255 |
French Sculptor Auguste Rodin once wrote that "one has only to look at a human face to find a soul, no feature deceives; hypocrisy is as transparent as sincerity. The inclining of the brow, the least furrowing of a look may reveal the -secrets of the heart." Rodin was fortunate to have as his -secretary...
| Author | Ignazio Silone |
| ISBN | 8804376090 |
Luca Sabatini ritorna al paese natale dopo molti anni di prigione scontati ingiustamente e senza difendersi. L'intero paese, benché ora sia noto il vero colpevole del delitto, non gli perdona quel presunto "peccato" che è stato foriero di rovina per tutti. Luca è un uomo mite, sopporta la solitudine...
| Author | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky |
| ISBN | 1590176707 |
The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky's most dazzling conceits: a provincial...
