"Profesor Wilczur" to kontynuacja Znachora, w której odnajdziemy motywy melodramatyczne, ujęte w sensacyjno-obyczajową fabułę. Po tragicznych przejściach wywołanych utratą pamięci profesor Wilczur wraca...
It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pål Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the apartment across the street.
Professor...
M. Prohartchine est un «pauvre-riche». Cette nouvelle est tirée de l'histoire véridique d'un avare lue dans les journaux de la capitale, un «nouvel Harpagon mort en pauvreté sur des monceaux d'or. C'était un conseiller...
In the wilderness of junior high, Edwin Hanratty is at the bottom of the food chain. His teachers find him a nuisance. His fellow students consider him prey. And although his parents are not oblivious to his troubles, they can't quite bring...
Dans Promenade, R?gis Jauffret jette en p?ture au lecteur la folle errance d’une femme d?poss?d?e d’elle-m?me, claustr?e dans un univers mental hallucin?. Cette anonyme («elle») pratiquement r?duite ? n?ant appara?t comme totalement ?trang?re...
Promenades et souvenirs parmi les derniers textes écrits par Nerval, donnent au champ de la prose une ampleur inédite. Issus de la pratique du feuilleton, libres de toute détermination générique, ils glissent, sans solution...
Elizabeth Bishop’s prose is not nearly as well known as her poetry, but she was a dazzling and compelling prose writer too, as the publication of her letters has shown. Her stories are often on the borderline of memoir, and vice versa. From her...
A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have.
Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things aren’t made for her, or that she isn’t destined to have them, or that the only things she deserves are ugly. It’s why her main...