Literary Fiction
azw3, pdf |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Maurice Blanchot [Blanchot, Maurice]

Notes 1. L’Arrét de mort (Paris: Gallimard, 1948), trans. Lydia Davis under the title Death Sentence (Barrytown, N.Y.: Station Hill Press, 1978). 2. This definition recalls Heidegger’s alèthéia, in “The ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-03-26 | Author:Amy Hempel

Acknowledgments With great thanks to my editor, Nan Graham, for her close attention, galvanizing suggestions, and unerring wisdom; to Susan Moldow, for her valuable support; and to my agent Liz ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Antonio Tabucchi [Tabucchi, Antonio]

Vecchiano, 10 July 1985 Dear Mr. Janata Monroy, As usual your letter has obliged me to make a rapid and I fear superficial attempt to assimilate some culture. I only ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1964-01-01 | Author:François Augiéras [Augiéras, François]

TREMBLING WITH FEVER and cold, I got into bed. Once I was between the sheets my strength of character quickly asserted itself over my tiredness and after a little warmth ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-01-01 | Author:Enrique Vila-Matas [Vila-Matas, Enrique]

THE BOY ON THE SWING I An employee of my father’s who works in an office very close to mine — a man who is held by everyone to be ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, pdf, epub |eng | 1965-01-01 | Author:Witold Gombrowicz

chapter 7 Everything was happening at a distance. It was not the other house that had moved away from us, it was we who had moved away from it . ...
( Category: Biological Sciences October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Elena Ferrante [Ferrante, Elena]

11. The book was selling really well, I realized in the following days. The most conspicuous sign was the increasing number of phone calls from Gina, who reported a notice ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, pdf, epub |eng | 2015-03-10 | Author:Hanya Yanagihara

3 EVERY AFTERNOON AT four, after the last of his classes and before the first of his chores, he had a free period of an hour, but on Wednesdays, he ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:James Stoddard

When the men had journeyed three hours, they abruptly descended into a series of canyons that blocked the False House from sight. It took an hour to cross to the ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1957-01-01 | Author:Italo Calvino

2 Television has changed a lot of things. Once power was remote, distant figures puffed up on a platform, or portraits assuming expressions of conventional pride, symbols of an authority ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-06-30 | Author:Haruki Murakami & Philip Gabriel (translator)

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing. Now I regret, a little, that I didn’t tell the girl anything. Perhaps I should ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:J.G. Ballard

19 The Siege of Broadcasting House UNPREDICTABLE AS EVER, the police had decided not to intervene. I stood in the crowd of demonstrators outside Broadcasting House, waiting in vain for ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-10 | Author:Leonora Carrington

TUESDAY, 24 AUGUST 1943 I am afraid I am going to drift into fiction, truthful but incomplete, for lack of some details which I cannot conjure up today and which ...
( Category: Art History & Criticism October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Haruki Murakami & Philip Gabriel (translator)

That’s what we talked about that afternoon at the café,” Miu said. “I thought they were just a lot of harmless memories, but now everything seems significant. Maybe it’s just ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-05-25 | Author:Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Notes p. 7, the Zone: Originally the strip of land between the Paris fortifications and the suburbs, where for military reasons construction was prohibited. In later popular usage, the more ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )