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hopelessness Author's name: Vladimir Nabokov Despair is a tangible turning point in Nabokov's creative path, and it is distinguished from the works he wrote during the Russian era in that it came in the style of the traditional detective novel in that the narrator...

The soul never gets tired of lovers Author's name: Jalal ad-Din Rumi They say that God's light emanates from six directions: From where? The creation asks, meeting right and left. How I wish you would not look in any direction for a moment.

hard times Author's name: Mario Vargas Llosa One winter night, many years ago, she heard a knock on the door of her house, the house we were in now. Suspiciously, she went to open it and found a man on the street wearing a...

City of steam Author's name: Carlos Ruiz Zafón The collection of short stories presents a sample of Carlos Zafón's skill in constructing a distinct and unique literature in which we see features of the novel of emergence, the thriller novel, the historical novel, the...

Prince of Fog Author's name: Carlos Ruiz Zafón When I wasn't used to reading novels labeled "young adult," my idea of ​​young adult novels was identical to my idea of ​​novels for readers of all ages; I think the story doesn't care about age...

Insight Author's name: José Saramago Good evening, says the sea parrot. Good evening, Sea Parrot, replies the penguin. We held our first meeting at the local farm. The reception was cordial, and the questioning was productive, with the participation of a male and female...

Spinoza's problem Author's Name: Irvin D. Yalom In The Spinoza Problem, Yalom blends fact and fiction to weave a fascinating psycho-philosophical drama. The story of the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza, whose philosophy led to his expulsion from the Jewish community, is juxtaposed with the...

The Story of the Siege of Lisbon Author's name: Jose Saramago There was a manuscript, and the manuscript spoke about Islamic Lisbon and its siege by the Portuguese. The call to prayer was being made in Lisbon, and the Portuguese forces were preparing to...

Falcon Author's name: Gilbert Sinoué Renowned French novelist Gilbert Sinoué chooses the biography of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan to write the history of the emergence and founding of the United Arab Emirates. In keeping with his well-known narrative approach, he combines documentation...

Illiteracy Author's name: Agota Kristof The big notebook is about two children, twins who record the horrors of war and learn to spell life and confront it with the cruelty necessary for survival, while simultaneously learning to write and read. There is a double...

years Author's name: Annie Ernaux What matters to her is capturing this temporal expanse formed by her passage on earth during a particular era... capturing this time that passed through her, this year in which she recorded her inner being only by living it....

Little Memories Author's name: Jose Saramago Little Memories is Saramago's autobiography, which deals only with his childhood. These are the memories he experienced and left their mark on his psyche, contributing to the formation of the first building blocks of the young child's personality,...

Year of Ricardo Reis' death Author's name: Jose Saramago Because of the density of this novel, which stems in part from its historical and cultural Portuguese references in its specificity, as well as from what constitutes its fabric, a game of back and forth...

Mayta's story Author's name: Mario Vargas Llosa He looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, given his thinness, his beard, and his hair nearly all shaved. But Maita thought he shouldn't be so young. His hand gestures, his tone of voice, and his confidence...

The cave Author's name: Jose Saramago The man driving the van is named Siriano Algor, a potter by profession, and sixty-four years old, although at first glance his appearance suggests he is younger.

Elephant's March Author's name: Jose Saramago The first step of the elephant's strange journey, which we intend to recount, began inside the Portuguese palace and headed towards Austria. This was approximately at bedtime, although this contradicts the opinion of those who do not know...

Celtic dream Author's name: Mario Vargas Llosa The central theme of the novel "A Celtic Dream" revolves around denouncing and exposing the exploitation of humans in the Congo forests, once privately owned by King Leopold II of Belgium, and in the Peruvian Amazon, a...

Schopenhauer's treatment Author Name: Irvin D. Yalom Every breath we take wards off the death that constantly lurks around us... In the end, death must win, for it has been our destiny since we were born, and it toys with its prey for a...

Earth Revolution Author's name: Jose Saramago In Earth Revolution, we follow Saramago's footsteps and enter, in light of his ferocity in the pursuit of justice, his anger at injustice, and his boundless pain from poverty, the village of Lafre, through which he explores the...

Beyond Good and Evil Author's name: Friedrich Nietzsche The book was first published in 1886. It builds on the ideas of his earlier book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and expands upon them, approaching them from a more critical and polemical perspective. Nietzsche completed the book...