Essays
Umberto Eco
Minerva's Matchbook
This volume collects texts published between 1990 and 2000 in the legendary column "Bustina di Minerva" - "Minerva Matches", which Umberto Eco (1932-2016) wrote in the magazine.
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Italo Calvino
The Uses of Literature: Essays
This volume of essays is a kind of intellectual autobiography of Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of the greatest Italian writers of the 20th century, often cited as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Selected by the author him
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Octavio Paz
Selected Essays
Rarely in the Spanish-speaking world has anyone covered the different sides of world culture with such breadth as Octavio Paz, and reflected with such depth on the problems, contradictions and tragedies of both the past and his own time. Rarely has
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Dubravka Ugrešić
The Age of Skin
A New York Times Editors' Choice
These essays are written on the skin of the times. Dubravka Ugresic, winner of the Neustadt International Prize and one of Europe’s most influential writers, with biting humor and a multitude of cu
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Svetlozar Zhelev
Bulgaria for Advanced Readers
"One could not reproduce Bulgaria or any piece of it for a casino in Las Vegas. It is too complicated, too native. It would not be enough to copy the gilded domes of the chapels squatting just in front of the apartment buildings or the Roman co
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Dubravka Ugrešić
American Fictionary
In the midst of the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s, Dubravka Ugresic — winner of the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature — was invited to Middletown, Connecticut as a guest lecturer. A world away from the brutal sieges
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Janina Dragostinova
My Wedding Dress
You are 16 and your first love has just ended tragically. You are 27 and you enjoy a stable partner, but you are in no hurry to get married. You are 32 and have a good profession with high income, you think that marriage is obsolete, but you do n
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Umberto Eco
Chronicles of a Liquid Society
A posthumous collection of essays about the modern world from one of Europe’s greatest, and best-selling, literary figures.
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist
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Milan Kundera
Encounter
A brilliant new contribution to Kundera's ongoing reflections on art and artists, written with unparalleled insight, authority, and range of reference and allusion.
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an e
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Svetlozar Zhelev
The leisurely living and enjoying life
The soul has its speed (its slowness) and it is the literature that knows more about it. When we tell a story, we actually stop for a few hours the hour-glasses, leave the current time, and build another, parallel time. Every reader knows th
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Ventseslav Konstantinov
Literary Temptations. Selected Essays
The collection, composed by the author himself, includes the best texts of his five essay books. Synthesis of impressive cultural information, the essays combine the experience of Ventseslav Konstantinov as an astute translator interpreter, in-de
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Dubravka Ugrešić
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
According to Slavic myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. In Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, internationally acclaimed writer Dubravka Ugresic takes the timeless legend and spins it into a fresh
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Umberto Eco
How to Travel with a Salmon
'Between a bottle of Epsom salts or one of twenty-year-old cognac, which would you choose? Would you rather spend your vacation with an eighty-year old leper or with Demi Moore? Do you prefer being sprinkled with ferocious red ants or shari
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Haruki Murakami
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triath
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Milan Kundera
The Curtain
"A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world," writes Milan Kundera in "The Curtain", his fascinating new book on the art of the novel. "Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the kni
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Kurt Vonnegut
Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey th
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Civilization of the Spectacle
Mario Vargas Llosa: "Civilization of the Spectacle" (La civilización del espectáculo) is an attempt to express a feeling of concern, an anguish of sorts, on seeing what we understood by "culture" when I was young, changing
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Dalai Lama
Let’s Declare Peace!
As Hessel admits, this text differs from his essays, because through it he turned to the spirit for the first time. Conversely, what is striking in the words of the Dalai Lama, is his will to emphasize the importance of "secular ethics", the on
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Stéphane Hessel
Time for Outrage
After 93 years, it is almost the final act. The end for me is not very far off any more. But it still leaves me a chance to be able to remind others of what acted as the basis of my political engagement. It was the years of resistance to th
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Jorge Luis Borges
Collected Essays
Although his fame rests mainly on his production of short stories, Jorge Luis Borges began his career writing poems and essays, and continued to do so throughout his life. However, there is no separate Borges the essayist, Borges the poet, or Borge
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Milan Kundera
Testaments Betrayed
In this stimulating, free-form essay, Czech novelist Kundera traces the evolution of the novel from Rabelais to Kafka and draws parallels between literature and music as he shuttles effortlessly among Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Chopin, Thomas Mann, Bach a
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