In this hilarious spoof on academic conferences, Luis Fernando Verissimo tells the story of Vogelstein, a bibliophile who attends a conference in Buenos Aires on Edgar Allen Poe. Mixing the Elizabethan John Dee's 'Eternal Orang-Utan' with Kabbala, the author introduces murder into Vogelstein's humdrum life.
Presents the story of Karl Rossman who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, is banished to America by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in the magical land of opportunity, he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures.
A work of imaginative literature, this fictional record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, Sebald's home for the last 20 years, is also an exploration of England's pastoral and imperial past, evoking people and cultures of the region, past and present
Antoine Roquentin, an introspective historian, records the disturbing shifts in his perceptions and his struggle to restore meaning to life in a continuing present and without lies.
This is a new translation of five stories, including 'The Room', 'Erostratus', 'The Childhood of a Leader' and 'Intimacy', from a master of Existentialism.