Here are two major works by the famed Polish novelist and dramatist Witold Gombrowicz. The first, Cosmos, a metaphysical thriller, revolves around an absurd investigation. It is set in provincial Poland and narrated by a seedy, pathetic, and witty student
The impoverished, desolate mountain regions of the Abruzzo during Mussolini's reign provide the backdrop for the three greatest novels by Ignazio Silone, one of the twentieth century's most important writers. In Fontamara, Bread and Wine, and The Seed Be
Vienna, 1909. When the celebrated actor Eugen Bischoff is found dead in his garden pavilion, suspicion falls immediately on Baron von Yosch, a well-to-do army officer who was once the lover of the dead man’s wife. By all appearances—the door was locke
Two men, a Swedish officer who has deserted from Charles XII's army, and a common brigand, meet in a barn one winter's day in the year 1701. Both are being hunted to death, and in order to escape their pursuers they exchange identities. By the author of "
Paris in the 1920s – dizzy and decadent. Where a young man can make a fortune with his wits … unless he is led into temptation. Cocaine’s dandified hero Tito Arnaudi invents lurid scandals and gruesome deaths, and sells these stories to the newspape
Ein Student befindet sich wie gehetztes Wild auf der Flucht vor der Polizei, weil er versucht hat, einen aus der Universitätsbibliothek entwendeten Prachtband zu Geld zu machen. Sein Problem: Er ist entkommen, nachdem man ihm bereits Handschellen angeleg
