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In the summer of 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville journeyed to the very limits of American civilization. The admiration and awe before a still pristine nature and the march of relentless urbanization westward inspired the author in this surprisingly timely narrative that brings the myth of the frontier to life.
Simeon Brown is an African American journalist who moves to Paris after a violent encounter with white sailors. In Paris, he meets new friends and falls in love with a Polish actress who is a concentration camp survivor. However, he becomes aware that Paris is not a racial utopia as he witnesses Algerians being oppressed by the French government. Through his friendship with Ahmed, an Algerian radical, Simeon is forced to consider where his loyalties lie.
Two twins, Jean and Paul, form a brother and sister pair so close that others call them Jean-Paul. But Jean wants to break this chain and tries to get married. Paul manages to thwart this plan. Through multiple adventures and numerous characters, the novel outlines the great theme of the human couple.
The collection of selected stories, “A Manual for Cleaning Women” (first edition in Greek in 2018), introduced to the international public ten years after her death, a great author who had been unjustly forgotten. “Evening in Paradise,” Lucia Berlin’s second collection, confirms her place in the pantheon of American letters, equal to that of Raymond Carver and Alice Munro.
French traveler Castellan in an epistle of 1820 writes down the charming story of Melica, which was told to the French travelers by a wandering Greek rhapsodist: piracy, love, war, envy, betrayal, triumph of true love, but also a realistic depiction of pre-revolutionary Greece.
A wandering Jew, a naughty boy decorated with the Cross of Lorraine, a member of the resistance, consul general of France in Los Angeles, a saltimbag and adventurer, a Hollywood prophet but also an iconoclast supporter of De Gaulle, Roman Gary lived a life that promises the most exciting autobiography. But his book is not just about capturing the author’s thirst for ever-increasing challenges. It is, above all, a glorification of maternal love and its creative power.
Black comedy, and at the same time, a metropolitan drama, Hangover Square, is the masterpiece of Patrick Hamilton. The author reconstitutes the wretched, smoggy world of bars, cheap hotels, and drunken philosophers, immortalizing the ethos of an entire generation and capturing the signs of destruction that were looming over London’s life shortly before World War II broke out.
In a seaside village in Brittany, that the wind flays and kneels by the mourning, a passionate love is born between Gaud, the beautiful daughter of a rich fisherman, and the beautiful and arrogant Yann , the “fisherman of Iceland”.
Source of inspiration for Michel Houellebecq but also for the “punk poet” Richard Hell, Joris-Karl Huysmans’ “A Rebours” (Against Nature) is the perfect example of the “literature de la decadence”.
Through her short stories a world is emerging in an unstoppable movement, painful and at the same time hedonic. Berlin makes wonders using as material the insignificant things of everyday life.
Describing an epic battle of personalities in the harsh environment of a claustrophobic pension, Hamilton created one of the most sensitive books ever written on the ordeals of a solitary heart.
The novel The Ladies’ Paradise, written in 1883, in the colloquium of Zola’s literary success, deals with the competition, the conquest and the triumph of the trade of the “novelties”, which the Paris department stores inaugurated at the expense, of course, of the smaller stores; the book talks about the omnipotence of money and love, about the unprecedented progress that demolished and killed a part of French society.
The tragic love of a talented sculptor for an Italian castrato in the 18th-century Italy, one of Balzac’s most dense in images and meanings work of fiction that became one of more commented texts of the author in the second half of the previous century.
The text of the Prayer up on the Acropolis, dedicated to the Goddess Athena, is the most famous hymn to the values of classical Athens written by the great French philosopher and thinker Ernest Renan.
