Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism
10 best books like Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism (Hans Fallada): The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry, Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella and Stories, The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories, Thirst, Maybe This Time, Stained Glass Elegies, Through the Wall, Lunar Caustic, The Last Demon, Why Translation Matters
| Author | Gerald Moore |
| ISBN | 0141181001 |
I remember finding Noémia de Sousa online and then in a looseleaf literary piece while in Portugal. I had nothing but time in Portugal, so I sat at a cafe and slowly tried to translate her verse, using a portable Portuguese translator.
Canção fraterna
Irmão negro de voz quente
o...
| Author | Ismail Kadare |
| ISBN | 1559707887 |
In this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Ismail Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of a dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of tyranny in Western Civilization. During the waning years of Communism, a young...
| Author | William Trevor |
| ISBN | 0192801937 |
What began simply in Ireland as entertainment and communication through the spoken word soon grew into an extraordinary literary form unmatched in any other country. The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories triumphantly demonstrates the development of the short story in Ireland--from the early folk...
| Author | Ken Kalfus |
| ISBN | 1571310185 |
A few quite good stories, reminiscent of Calvino and Borges, surrounded by some okay stories. And then I remembered, Calvino and Borges do a pretty good Calvino and Borges as well--so I'll read them instead. If you only read one story from this collection, though read "Night And Day You Are The One"
I'll...
| Author | Alois Hotschnig |
| ISBN | 0956284051 |
A spellbinding short story collection by one of Austria's most critically acclaimed authors. A man becomes obsessed with observing his neighbors. A large family gathers for Christmas only to wait for the one member who never turns up. An old woman lures a man into her house where he finds dolls resembling...
| Author | Shūsaku Endō |
| ISBN | 0811211428 |
The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence. His consummately wrought short stories, with their worlds of deep shadows and achieved clarity, are less familiar. The dozen stories of Stained Glass Elegies, selected...
| Author | Ludmilla Petrushevskaya |
| ISBN | 0141196211 |
'There once lived a woman who was so fat, she couldn't fit in a taxi, and when going into the subway she took up the whole width of the escalator'. Ludmilla Petrushevskaya has been acclaimed as one of Russia's greatest living writers. These five dreamlike and blackly comic stories, two of which are here...
| Author | Malcolm Lowry |
| ISBN | 0224613405 |
Bill Plantagenet is a British jazz pianist, alcoholic, ferving reader of Melville and passionate about big boats. When he arrives to New York, finds that everything in his life have been sinking and losses, like his own band and his companion, Ruth. His pilgrimage by the taverns of the city port culminates...
| Author | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| ISBN | 0141196238 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1978, is best-remembered for his humane and moving short stories, which drew comparison with those of Maupassant and Chekhov. The three collected here, about a girl who pretends to be a man in order to study the Torah, a frustrated demon, and a writer trying...
| Author | Edith Grossman |
| ISBN | 0300126565 |
Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator’s role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, “My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature...
| Author | Tristan Garcia |
| ISBN | 0865479119 |
In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex, friendships, and love affairs to show what happens to people when political ideals--Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism--come to an end. As Elizabeth Levallois,...
Most Americans would describe Japanese science fiction with one word: Godzilla. However, true fans of the genre know that for decades, Japan has been turning out some of the most innovative stories ever published. Unfortunately, those that make it into English are often difficult to find. The Best...
| Author | Donald Barthelme |
| ISBN | 0141195770 |
Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) - American author of some of the most charming, curious, quizzical, probing short stories every written.
Alienation, absurdity and the reality of death, themes central to the existential imagination, receive powerful expression in two unforgettable...
| Author | Primo Levi |
| ISBN | 0141196092 |
داستان های ترکیبی جالب از فانتزی و جدیت هستند. همچنین در چند داستان این فانتزی ها با اشارات و انتقادات سیاسی-تاریخی هم همراهند. به نظرم داستان های به خواندنشان...
| Author | Kingsley Amis |
| ISBN | 0141195738 |
Dear Illusion, Kingsley Amis
In this wry, piercing short story from one of the greatest of all British post-war writers, an ageing poet considers the value of his art - and of the critics who've found genius in it. Then, with his final work, he exercises a unique revenge...
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چه ترجمهٔ بدی! بیچاره ترومن کاپوتی. فکر کنم اگر داستان‌ها را به زبان اصلی می‌خواندم، خیلی بیشتر خوشم می‌آمد..
| Author | Eileen Chang |
| ISBN | 0141196149 |
There were two women in Zhenbao's life: one he called his white rose, the other his red rose. One was a spotless wife, the other a passionate mistress. Isn't that just how the average man describe a chaste widow's devotion to her husband's memory - as spotless, and passionate too? Maybe every man has had...
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 0141196076 |
I saw the Doctor come out of the cottage followed by a draggle-tailed wench who clung to his arm as though he could make treaty for her with Death. &'grave;Dat sort,'' she wailed -- &'grave;dey're just as much to us dat has 'em as if dey was lawful born. Just as much -- just as much! An' God he'd be just...
The Sexes is a small collection of Dorothy Parker's short stories about relationships, and is published as part of Penguin's mini modern classics series.
The first story, the Sexes, is a masterclass in dialogue: taught, lucid, and oozing with an admixture of cultural, emotional and interpersonal...
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0141195835 |
'The inspector ordered that the bird be searched.One of the agents stalled saying it made him feel sick, and after some fierce pecking another withdrew sucking a bleeding finger.'
In these two stories from an inventive, comic master of the form, old friends and friendly rivals Pietro and Tommasso...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 0141196289 |
PG Wodehouse's first crime novel or short story? Well, not exactly. But what it is (again and again) is Wodehouse's genius in conveying a small world and expanding that world to the reader in such a hysterical manner. I started reading this book on the plane trip to Los Angeles, and now just finished reading...
| Author | Shirley Jackson |
| ISBN | 0141195991 |
A housewife driven mad by toothache is put on a bus to the dentist and undergoes a strange transformation, a disturbing encounter takes place on a train, a little boy tells troubling stories about his violent classmate, and villagers gather to witness a sinister lottery in this collection of short stories....
| Author | Carson McCullers |
| ISBN | 0141196122 |
Writing about outcasts, dreamers and misfits in the Deep South, Carson McCullers was acclaimed for her sympathetic depictions of loneliness, the need for understanding and the search for love. These four masterly stories of eccentrics, failed prodigies, injustice and hope, written when she was...
| Author | Katherine Mansfield |
| ISBN | 0141196130 |
Katherine Mansfield's perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. In these three tales, aglow with light and colour, Mansfield describes an exultant epiphany, fading...
| Author | Paul Bowles |
| ISBN | 0061137340 |
Paul Bowles once said that a story should remain taut throughout, like a piece of string. That tense, stretched tone is the key to this collection of 17 eerie tales by the author best known for The Sheltering Sky. The Delicate Prey is dedicated: "For my mother, who first read me the stories of Poe." If Poe...
