The three novellas collected in Van Gogh's Room at Arles demonstrate once again Stanley Elkin's mastery of the English language, with exuberant rants on almost every page, unexpected plot twists, and jokes that leave readers torn between laughter...
ШЕЛЛЕР, Александр Константинович, псевдоним — А. Михайлов (30.VII(11.VIII).1838, Петербург — 21.XI(4.XII). 1900, там же) — прозаик, поэт. Отец — родом из...
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...
Oskars Lutss
VASARA
(Jaunības dienu ainiņas)
IZDEVNIECĪBA LIESMA-RĪGĀ 1968
Tie lasītāji, kas jau iepazinušies ar igauņu rakstnieka Oskara Lutsa darbu «Pavasaris», atkal tiksies ar šī...
Somijas zviedru rakstniece un māksliniece TūveJānsone (1914-2001) ir visplašāk pazīstama kā TrollīšuMuminu radītāja. Vasaras grāmata ir viens no desmit viņas romāniem, kas...