Unmistakably the work of César Aira, Varamo is about the day in the life of a hapless government employee who, after wandering around all night after being paid by the Ministry in counterfeit money, eventually writes the most celebrated...
Lydia Davis has been called “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times), “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (Salon), an innovator who attempts “to remake the model of the modern short story”...
Mavis Gallant is the modern master of what Henry James called the international story, the fine-grained evocation of the quandaries of people who must make their way in the world without any place to call their own. The irreducible complexity of...
"If someone in the future asks in frustration, 'What has Korean literature been up to?' we can quietly hand them Vaseline Buddha." — Pak Mingyu
A tragicomic odyssey told through free association scrubs the depths of the human psyche to...
Jaclyn Wilde is a wedding planner who loves her job—usually. But helping Carrie Edwards with her Big Day has been an unrelenting nightmare. Carrie is a bridezilla of mythic nastiness, a diva whose tantrums are just about as crazy as her demands....
“Au grand jeu du destin, Mimo a tiré les mauvaises cartes. Né pauvre, il est confié en apprentissage à un sculpteur de pierre sans envergure. Mais il a du génie entre les mains.Toutes les fées ou presque se sont penchées sur Viola Orsini....
Kas notiek, kad neprecēta jaunkundze bez pavadoņa dodas pastaigā un sastop valdzinošu svešinieku ar ļoti sliktu reputāciju? Skaistās un apņēmīgās Venēcijas Lenjonas dzīve ģimenes muižā laukos ir visai vienmuļa, līdz tajā iejaucas...
Con Veneno y sombra y adiós se cierra el periplo londinense de Jacobo -o Jacques o Jack o Jaime o Iago o Yago- Deza, el profesor que se inventaba etimologías en la oxoniense. El primer tomo comienza con el sonido de unos pasos a la espalda de...
DIPLOMAT, WRITER AND POET, traveller and socialite, friend of Proust, Giraudoux and Malraux, Paul Morand was out of the most original writers of the twentieth century. He was French literature's globe-trotter, and his delightful autobiography is far...
"Vente à la criée du lot 49" est le deuxième roman de Thomas Pynchon. Une jeune femme nommée Œdipa Mass y apprend qu'elle a été choisie comme exécutrice testamentaire d'un de ses anciens amants, un magnat...