«Ero solo, in una casetta in Bretagna, davanti al computer,» ha raccontato una volta Emmanuel Carrère «e a mano a mano che procedevo nella storia ero sempre più terrorizzato». All’inizio, infatti, il …
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and published around her twenty-third birthday. The novel, written in a stream-of-consciousness style rem…
When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kr…
Bastano a volte poche pagine per accorgersi di avere fra le mani un grande romanzo, e per cogliere quel timbro puro che ne fa un classico. È ciò che accade con La famiglia Karnowski di Israel J. Singe…
Tre dei racconti qui riuniti hanno come protagoniste quelle creaturine infide, pericolose, enigmatiche che Shirley Jackson conosceva molto bene per aver cresciuto quattro «demoni», come chiamava – sch…
Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Strauss’s greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative …
From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling novel set in the near future about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst …
It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging Classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to r…
An unnamed American couple travels to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby. It’s a difficult journey that leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband wo…
