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The Naked Eye

The Naked Eye

2009 ·
·3.54·153 Ratings ·256 Pages
“ If you feel beautiful, then you are. Even if you don't, you still are. ” ― Terri Guillemets
Authors' Books
  • Where Europe Begins

    2002·
    ·3.9·187 Ratings
    Where Europe Begins presents a collection of startling new stories by Japanese writer Yoko Tawada. Moving through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, strange words and letters, dreams, and every-day reality, Tawada's work blurs divisions between fa
  • The Bridegroom Was a Dog

    2003·
    ·3.55·289 Ratings
    In these three narratives, an ingenious story-teller has created a new kind of fantasy, playful yet vaguely sinister, laced with her own brand of humor, which reviewers have labeled variously as "funky," "mischievous," "weird," and "hilarious."The author
  • The Robber

    2000·
    ·4.19·248 Ratings
    The Robber, Robert Walser’s last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to
  • The Assistant

    2007·
    ·4.05·659 Ratings
    Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J.M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann Hesse ("If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a bet
  • The Old Child and Other Stories

    2005·
    ·3.38·140 Ratings
    Written in spare, highly concentrated language, "a sustained feat of verbal economy" (Die Zeit), the one novella and four stories in The Old Child go beyond the limits of the expected, the real. Dark, serious, often mystical, these marvelous fictions ab
  • The Book of Words

    2007·
    ·3.79·166 Ratings
    In The Book of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck captures with amazing virtuosity the inner life of a young girl who survives the totalitarian regime of a curiously unnamed South American country (most likely Argentina during its "dirty war"). Raised by parents whos
  • The End of Days

    2014·
    ·3.73·1,007 Ratings
    Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist
  • Looking at Pictures

    2015·
    ·4.1·109 Ratings
    A beautiful and elegant collection, with gorgeous full-color art reproductions, Looking at Pictures presents a little-known side of the eccentric Swiss genius: his great writings on art. His essays consider Van Gogh, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Cranach, Watteau,
  • The Tanners

    2009·
    ·4.06·777 Ratings
    The Tanners, Robert Walser’s amazing 1907 novel of twenty chapters, is now presented in English for the very first time, by the award-winning translator Susan Bernofsky. Three brothers and a sister comprise the Tanner family—Simon, Kaspar, Klaus, and
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