Sarrasine
6 best books like Sarrasine (Honoré de Balzac): Gog, The Charterhouse of Parma, The Red Laugh, S/Z: An Essay, Next Episode, The Pleasure of the Text
20. yüzyılın ilk yarısının en tartışmalı yazınsal kişiliklerinden biri olan Giovanni Papini (1881-1956), Gog'da yarattığı saf, cahil ama bir yandan da dünyada olup bitenin nedenini arayan Amerikalı milyarder tipi aracılığıyla olağandışı bir portreler galerisi...
| Author | Stendhal |
| ISBN | 0679783180 |
Richard Howard's exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal's stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat's adventures in Napoleon's army and in the court of Parma, illuminating in the process the whole cloth of European...
| Author | Leonid Andreyev |
| ISBN | 1425478158 |
The Red Laugh is an utterly harrowing and nightmarish depiction of a sort of apocalypse that springs from the chaos, blood, and misery of Russia's humiliating defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, in language that prophetically echoes the horrors to come during the First World War. Centered on two nameless...
| Author | Roland Barthes |
| ISBN | 0374521670 |
I must be honest this was a re-read for me. Barthes's works were pre-eminent when I was navigating my way through university. So encouraged were we to embrace this 'enfant terrible' that I very nearly wrote my PhD on his ideas (in the end it had to be Poe!). Looking back now though there is no doubt that 'The...
| Author | Hubert Aquin |
| ISBN | 0771034717 |
First published in l965, Hubert Aquin’s Next Episode is a disturbing and yet deeply moving novel of dissent and distress. As he awaits trial, a young separatist writes an espionage story in the psychiatric ward of the Montreal prison where he has been detained. Sheila Fischman’s bold new translation...
| Author | Roland Barthes |
| ISBN | 0374521603 |
What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics...
