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Short Stories - Part Two Author's name: Jorge Luis Borges "My dear friend Paulino Keynes, who obtained for me the first volume of the Arabian Nights (London, 1840) in Lane's translation, and I discovered the manuscript which I am now going to translate into...

Tigris ship Author: Thor Heyerdahl The Sumerians themselves say that their forefathers came by sea to the coastal city of Ur from the land of Dilmun after the Flood. Their written testimony seems, at first glance, to open the door to another mystery: Where...

Aunt Julia and the screenwriter Author's name: Mario Vargas Llosa I continued to think about Pedro Camacho's life. What social milieu, what series of people, connections, problems, coincidences, and events resulted in that literary message (was it literary? If not, what was it?) that...

young man Author's name: Annie Ernaux In "The Young Man," Ernaux speaks in her own direct, frank, and non-fictional style about a love affair she had with a man about 30 years her junior. We read something similar in her novel "The Occupation," but...

Pantaleon and the Visitors Author: Mario Vargas Llosa After the Peruvian army received numerous complaints about soldiers assaulting peasant women and daughters in remote jungle areas, the military leadership found a solution: establishing a female visitors' service to provide entertainment for the soldiers. Newly...

Orient Express Travel Diaries Author's Name: John Dos Passos The bow of the ship rocked as it hit a new, strong wave. A whirlwind hid the moon, and raindrops irritably sprinkled my head, then faded away, leaving behind wisps of moonlight drifting eastward where...

Three times at dawn Author's name: Alessandro Baricco These pages tell a true story, but it could never happen in reality. They tell of two people who meet three times, but each time is unique; it is the first and the last. They can...

That other world Author's name: Azar Nafisi Although I know it will never end, I will not stop painting the second painting. My experiment has failed, and there is no better proof of this defeat, failure, or impotence than the paper on which I...

livelihood Author's name: Cesare Pavese Nine days after completing his diary, "The Profession of Living," Cesare Pavese took his own life. He had taken an overdose of sleeping pills in a Turin hotel room shortly before. He had published his novel "The Moon and...

A Girl's Diary Author's name: Annie Ernaux “The Diary of a Girl” was not only the text that remained missing from Annie Ernaux’s creative corpus for five decades, but it is also a text that is unique among all her works, and can be...

Confessions and Curses Author's name: Emil Cioran The best way to get rid of an enemy is to praise him everywhere. This will be transmitted to him, and he will lose the ability to offend you. In this way, you will have destroyed his...

Permanent Revolution Author's name: Leon Trotsky Wherein lies Trotsky's greatness? To what extent are his ideas and struggle still relevant to our time? Trotsky's fundamental quality is that he is a "forward thinker," in the sense in which Greek myth says that "Prometheus" is...

shame Author's name: Salman Rushdie In his brilliant third novel, first published in 1983, Salman Rushdie gives us a delightful and diverse blend of history, art, language, politics, and religion. Shame tells the story of a university professor's sudden fall from grace and the...

Sunset Island Author's name: Gilbert Sinoué "Sunset Island" is the first part of a trilogy of novels by author Gilbert Sinoué devoted to the history of Morocco before the French and Spanish occupation. It deals with the character of Sultan Ismail and the challenges...

Short Stories Part One Author's name: Jorge Luis Borges When one reaches a certain age, one can pretend to be many things, happiness not among them. - Others should be proud of the pages they have written; I am proud of those I have...

The divine equation Author Name: Jose Z. dos Santos In the spring of 1951, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion visited Princeton University to meet with Albert Einstein. The purpose of the visit was to obtain a design for a nuclear weapon that would be...

Sofia or the beginning of all stories Author's name: Rafiq Shami One summer day in 2021, Salman Baldi decided to return to Damascus, forty years, two months, and seventeen days after he left Syria in 1970 with a forged passport. It took him another...

Falling in time Author's name: Emil Cioran The importance civilized man attaches to so-called backward peoples is what arouses most suspicion. Unable to bear himself any longer, he resorts to venting on those peoples the surplus of diseases that beset him, inviting them to...

Who killed Palomino Molero? Author's name: Mario Vargas Llosa A detective novel set in Latin America that investigates who killed Molero, a simple boy whose body was found horribly mutilated by a shepherd. What are the real reasons behind the murder of Molero, a...

Spirit of the Laws Author's name: Montesquieu No one studied law during the European Renaissance with such precision, clarity, boldness, and penetrating insight as Montesquieu. In his book, *The Spirit of the Laws*, he explained and criticized the known systems of government, distinguishing between...