Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality—Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. He challenges any single discourse on the ero…
Lietuvos ir Jungtinių Amerikos Valstijų aplinkos menininkė Aleksandra Fledžinskaitė-Kašubienė-Kasuba (1923–2019) – viena ryškiausių XX a. kūrėjų, palikusi ženklų pėdsaką praėjusio amžiaus meno ir kult…
„Dariaus Žiūros teksto veikėjai, iš kurių pagrindinis yra jis pats, įtraukia į nenuspėjamus poelgių, minčių ir prisiminimų vingius, autoriui neįtikėtinai meistriškai atkuriant skausmingai atpažįstamas…
Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust,…
This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasi…
19th-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with t…
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descri…
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 - April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two M…
