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Jakob von Gunten
Jakob von Gunten
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Robert Walser
Walser
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Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, the Swiss writer Robert Walser wrote a range of short stories and essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest.
Contributors: Christopher Middleton |
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Kaputt
Kaputt
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Curzio Malaparte
Malaparte
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Reveals the horrors of war from within the heart of corruption.
Contributors: Dan Hofstadter , Cesare Foligno |
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The Late Mattia Pascal
Late Mattia Pascal
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Luigi Pirandello
Pirandello
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Nobel Prize—winner Luigi Pirandello is at once the most teasing and profound of modern masters, a connoisseur of ironies and impossibilities, and The Late Mattia Pascal is undoubtedly his most polished performance as a writer of fiction.
Contributors: Charles Simic , William Weaver |
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Letters from Russia
Letters from Russia
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Astolphe de Custine
Custine
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The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world's most fascinating and troubled countries.
Contributors: Anka Muhlstein |
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Letters: Summer 1926
Letters: Summer 1926
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Boris Pasternak,
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Marina Tsvetayeva
Pasternak
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Letters: Summer 1926 takes the reader into the hearts and minds of three of the twentieth-century's greatest poets at a moment of maximum emotional and creative pressure.
Contributors: Jamey Gambrell , Margaret Wettlin, Walter Arndt, Jamey Gambrell |
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Life and Fate
Life and Fate
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Vasily Grossman
Grossman
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An epic tale of World War II that interweaves a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia.
Contributors: Robert Chandler |
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The Life of Henry Brulard
Life of Henry Brulard
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Stendhal
Stendhal
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The Life of Henry Brulard is a vivid memoir that is also an extraordinary work of the imagination.
Contributors: Lydia Davis , John Sturrock |
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The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
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Juan Goytisolo
Gytisolo
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The world's first picaresque novel and an inspiration for many writers, including Cervantes.
Contributors: W.S. Merwin |
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The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard
Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard
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W.H. Auden
Kierkegaard
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Auden's inspired and incisive response to a thinker who had done much to shape his own beliefs is a fundamental reading of an author whose spirit remains as radical as ever more than 150 years after he wrote. |
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The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings
Lord Chandos Letter
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hofmannsthal
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In Hugo von Hofmannsthal's celebrated autobiographical novella a young nobleman reveals to his patron Sir Francis Bacon his particularly modern crisis of spirit.
Contributors: John Banville |
