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Evidence Author's name: Agota Kristof The novel "The Proof" by Hungarian writer Agota Kristof, is the second part of a trilogy, the first of which, "The Big Notebook," was published last year. This part deals with the fate of twin brothers who were separated...

Eugénie de Franval Author's name: Marquis de Sade One of the greatest advocates of absolute or extreme freedom, and a rebel against religion, values, virtue, customs, traditions and laws prevailing in his society... based on his own deep knowledge of society - and as...

hope Author's name: Gilbert Sinoué

woman Author's name: Annie Ernaux This book is not a biography, nor, of course, a novel. Perhaps it is something that lies between literature, sociology, and history. It was necessary for my mother, who was born into an oppressive environment from which she had...

Dangerous Relationships Author's name: Pierre de Laclos The word "deception" also means the arrangement of events in a fictional book within a set of influential and directed tricks. The word always indicates that someone is making someone else believe something that is not true....

Diwan al-Hallaj Author's name: Al-Hussein Al-Hallaj Al-Hallaj, the martyr of divine love; Al-Hallaj was born: Al-Mughith Al-Hussein bin Mansour bin Muhammad Al-Baydawi in the village of Al-Tur in the northeast of the city of Al-Bayda, one of the cities of Fars Province in Iran...

Tales from the Widows' Village Author's Name: James Canyon On November 15, 1992, guerrillas storm Mariquita, a remote Colombian mountain village, forcing its men to join their ranks. Anyone who resists or refuses is immediately killed. Only widows and spinsters remain, along with the...

Nine Essays on Dante Author's name: Jorge Luis Borges “Dante's Divine Comedy is not easy to read,” says Borges, “but with patience, it is very rewarding. First of all, there is a lot of suspense in it. It tells us about man's journey through...

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...